weileong's 4ft tank - Part II

[weileong]

tonight is skimmate colour comparison night ah...

let's have guiness stout tonight....on the house

You feed dead sea mud for your tank is it?

[roidan]

lol..bo bian lah...my fishes big liao..poo more liao...hehe

see the white foam below the cup u know how black the skimmate is liao....

white is white..black is black..hehe

[weileong]

Now my only feeding is about 10 NLS pellets each time for 2x a day only. Even lighter feeding.

I get darker skimmate cos the zeostart at work, still reducing the pooled nutrients in my tank else I think also skim very light skimmate like yours.

[AlfaRomeo]

Wow Roidan, your skimmate is really amazing.. really black coffee!

How much are you feeding your tank now?

[alanseah]

tonight is skimmate colour comparison night ah...

let's have guiness stout tonight....on the house

roidan.. look at your skimmate.. for a 2m high skimmate u still product that kind of black skimmate..

you are way under skimming.. quick upgrade to 4m high skimmer.. to meet your huge amount of anthais and fish and super heavy feeding..

[roidan]

Wow Roidan, your skimmate is really amazing.. really black coffee!

heee....actually nothing great one lah...

if one has many fishes or big tangs....even if use a weipro will get nasty skimmate also

best indication of how well the skimmer is performing for our systems is to observe parameters like nitrates....if nitrates are 0.....then whether the skimmer cup shows alot of skimmate or very little skimmate, shouldn't bother us too much

if it shows alot of skimmate and yet nitrates are still significant, means the skimmer is not good enough....if it shows little skimmate and yet nitrates are still significant, means the skimmer is not good enough also...hehe

[weileong]

It's all a matter of bioload and tunning

In fact is my skimmer is self-draining I would prefer a lighter skimmate so that skimmer will work better, don't need so frequent cleaning of the neck.

Sign.... no money buy self-cleaning head, even got money, deltec also don't have the self-cleaning head for his model.

[roidan]

hehe...underskimming? dun think so lah....nitrates back near to undetectable so i am pretty pleased with it....i remembered with my aquaC and H&S...nitrates crept slowly to a peak of around 5 to 10 ppm as the fishes got bigger and i fed more....that's why i embarked on the quattro....and now since the quattro on dual mode is bringing nitrates down to 0, to fire the other 2 for a full-quad operation is probably better or grossly overskimming but unnecessary from my point of view for now

coz i am running a fish and lps tank....unlike sps tanks like you guys...i shouldn't deprive the system of too much nutrients

[Achilles Tang]

Wow! You're extremely loaded man!!

[minsmarine]

So what is excetly point of having big skimmer ?

To reduce NO3 to 0 ?

And...... what else.

Me thinking of getting one but still can't convint myself yet

[roidan]

i dun think there is an exact point of having a big skimmer or not...

rather, it is having a skimmer that can aid your system in coming to equilibrium faster and easier....

if your current skimmer is unable to cope with your system's loading demands...that means you need a better skimmer, whether it gets bigger in size or better in technology is another thing...

probably u can also increase oxygenation to the water faster and easier with a stronger skimmer...but you must be mindful that there is a saturation level when it comes to oxygenating the water also.

[patrick123]

That is the new skimmer.

Is that right? hehehe

[patrick123]

Questions:

1. If you guys are feeding so little, how do you keep your pui pui tang? Now a day I have to feed about 10 mysis cube a day. But fortunately, my nitrate is still zero thanks to my dual beckett and refugium.

2. Do you think overskim will remove Magnesium in the water?

Thanks,

Patrick

[weileong]

Overskimming will not deplete Mg. Using Kalk for water topup will deplete Mg.

Feed better food like good pellets and stay away from stuffs like mysis and you'll have lesser waste and fatter tangs.

Having an efficient skimmer will reduce the load on your biological filtration. When your biological filtration cannot handle your bioload then you'll see your PO4 and NO3 slowly creep up. Remember more feeding also increase bioload as well.

[alanseah]

well I would like to add one more..

not only just looking at your n03 and p04 to judge your skimmer..

having a big skimmer help reduce nutrients alot.. as you can see your water get clear and clear and you have lesser of those "dirty stuff".

[AlfaRomeo]

Sorry but a little bit late to the skimmate party. Here is my skimmate over 48 hours.

[sailfin]

darn.... i've missed alot of slurping...... still need to hear other slurps...... where's sailfin and zanclus and another one i forgot what......

slurp

[weileong]

BON VOYAGE

[Dispar_Anthias]

wah all the garang skimmer here

hmm wheres the RSB den

[sailfin]

BON VOYAGE

huh

[hamannbmw]

[weileong]

[weileong]

Haven't seen this fish for quite sometime already.

Dunno why this stupid fish haven't die yet.

Suddenly appear yesterday, must have been hiding behind the LR cos got wack by my black tang.

[AlfaRomeo]

Kena whack chialat2 still dare to come out after dissapearing for so long? Wonder why it comes out again... Black Tang still around?

[weileong]

Black tang still around. King of the tank

Added this fish recently.

Now got another fish help so that stupid fat fish got chance to come out liao.