Wet vs Dry Skimming

[Melt]

to kill the smell..put Kalk in the waste cup...and bingo no more smell

 

[nanoreefer22]

I understood it be that dry skimming would get you a dark, smelly, and sludge like skimmate.

Wet skimming on the other hand would get you a significantly lighter, less smelly, and pourable skimmate.

Most of the time I feel like I'm skimming inbetween the two like what Jim described.
-Kris

 

[Kelly]

I use a Barr Aquatic skimmer set to skim wet. It makes about a gallon of skimate a day, which is tea colored and thin, it also smells like death when I pour it down the sink...

 

[michael stern]

Why isn't "on the rocks" one of the options?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

OK, well, what consitutues wet? You can pour it? or you can see through it?

I mean, mine is dark green usually adnd stinks to high heaven so much that when I dump it in the sink in the basement my wife on the first floor thinks my son needs a diaper change

But I am not able to see though it it's so green

Is the different that obvious? of is wet and dry a little different?

House

n i thought i was the only one gettin a medium to dark green skimmate whewwwww... load of my head lolz... everyone was saying that there skimmate is brown and im sitten here wondering why my skimmate is green....:iamwithst :type:

 

[alrha]

mine is green too, like a green tea (although i wouldnt recommend it even with sugar or lemon).

 

[fritz]

My skimmate didn't turn green until I started adding in spray dried phyto. Also once I added Cheato to my tank I always pull out green skimmate now. Could it be phytoplankton getting caught in our skimmers that make it green or am I way off base here?

 

[nycitaliano9]

I Get A Nice Coffee Color Out Of My Remora Pro W/Mag3

 

[nanchil]

Skimmer

I have a seaclone. The skimmate is dark green. I guess it is doing its work.

 

[samster]

either im color blind or mine is dark green also -=) i notices someone stated photoperiod? is it true? i find that my skimmer skimms atleast double or triple the amount it would at night then in the day? if its true should u only feed alil before the lights go out? i tried wet skimming but its a hassle to put in newly mixed water every day or other day, i just keep it semi wet/dry? wet enough to pour out? but not to wet?