Break an egg skimmer test

[cjsrch]

wonder if this would be a good test
55 gallon tank with a skimmer on it ( filled with saltwater. nothing else in it)
then dump a shotglass worth of that egg in a jugg stuff. ( you know what im talking about)
and time how long it takes to pull it all out using the skimmer


i had this idea when i rested an open jug of egg on my tank for a second and my dumb cat decided to knock it over into the sump...


happend 2 hours ago and my skimmer is calming down now ( but that was a whole jug of it)

.. so what are your thoughts..

( btw. skimmer wasnt pulling out anything till thios happend since my tank is empty. after this it went crazy)

 

[Anonymous]

then dump a shotglass worth of that egg in a jugg stuff. ( you know what im talking about)

Actually, I don't know what you are talking about...


Are you talking about actual chicken eggs?

What is this, feed your tank human food month?

 

[pwj1286]

knucklehead: Actually, I don't know what you are talking about...

When you go to a cafeteria, restaurant, ect., where there is a high volume of people--there is a high demand for food. Therefore, the need for supply to meet demand has to be addressed. This is accomplished by supplying a "milk carton" full of liquid eggs. Which can produce far more omelettes, than a single dozen carton of regular still-in-shell eggs.

The concept is gross, all those eggs inside a milk carton, but it produces alot of food that tastes good.
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[tazdevil]

I would worry about contaminating the tank/skimmer/other equipment with something. Many eggs are loaded with botulism, a very nasty bug. Proper cooking is the only way to kill it. If I were you, I'd bleach your equipment, the rinse THOROUGHLY before using it. To test a skimmer, an egg is probably not going to give very accurate results-to easy to skim/foam off. Egg white's and yolks are very sticky, and will stick to bubbles very easily. So i could see a crappy skimmer performing like a champ when it's really only a crappy skimmer skimming an egg. (Now that sounds like a Dr Suess rhyme. I really need to hang out with adults some more!)

 

[cjsrch]

im just glad that theres nothing in my tank yet >< i could see a really dumb person reading this thread and trying it with a tank full of fish


would really like to come up with a good repeatable test for protine skimmers.

 

[cygnus]

The only test i can think of would be t get maybe a few ten or 20 gallon tanks, stock them with a few fish all of the same size and weight, no live rock maybe an equal amount of live sand, feed them all the same, keep the temps constant and after each week collect the skimmate and test it for nitrates and protiens, One would also need to test the tank water as a referrence point, There are qute a few test that will test for protien in general but they would only tell you that protien is present and in what amounts but not the specific type of proiten that is present. Or you could get a known quantity of nitrates and a known quanity of protien compound and organic substances, add them to a lifeless tank and see how well they are removed from the tank over time by the skimmer.