[Pedro]

LOL, i'm not brown nosing!

[alrha]

looks like he's trying to show the difference between wet vs dry noses now

[neptune]

hes saying ...."yo man you think you guys smell skimmate...mathone...im getting it 100x worse right through the snause membrains...

[jackson6745]

Quote: Originally Posted by alrha looks like he's trying to show the difference between wet vs dry noses now

LMAO!!!

[sapseven]

wet skimming does the job but removes to much wanted stuff from the tank as well .. i notice everything drop heavily when i wet skim .. so on a scale from ( 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 ) 10 being dryest and100 being wettest im between a 60 and 70

[DrGonzo]

Ok, here comes the dumb question.... How do you go from wet to dry skimming? Does it have to do with the position of skimmer or pump?

["DevIouS"]

It has to do with adjusting the water level in your skimmer.

Higher level = Wet
Lower level = Dry

Quote: Originally Posted by sapseven wet skimming does the job but removes to much wanted stuff from the tank as well .. i notice everything drop heavily when i wet skim

What is the "wanted" stuff you are removing with your skimmer?


"Everything drop heavily"?????

Can you elaborate on that. I'm not understanding.

[noodleman]

any more opinions?

[NYreefNoob]

i skim more to the dry side myself, i really dont see how skimming wetter would make you lose more trace elements. reasoning being dry skimming leaves more stuff on the neck so wouldnt the trace elements be left on the neck with everything else ? and i see people say they dont skim wet because of salinity. dont see where it would effect that either, unless you have a 5g bucket for it to drain into. a quart isnt going to chnge salinity enough to be noticed especially on a larger tank. i do weekely wc's though. { i use a euroreef rs135 on total of 30g's of water } so i might be stipping it anyways. it is heavily stocked sps tank

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[h20 freak]

I have been wet skimming for about 3 weeks now,seen a HUGE drop in cyano/diatom growth, and corraline is starting to grow,and I have seen a salinity drop of
1.026-1.027 to 1.025-1.026 and my system is on the average-small side so salinity isn't really a problem.As for trace, my two shrimp have molted a combined 5 times in a month and their growth is amazing(and a hermit once) so Im guessing my trace elements are at very good levels.