Does anyone else turn off their skimmer while feeding?
I feed daily, chopped frozen for the fish, liquid phyto with vitamins for the coral.
My skimmer is the first pump in the sump. If I don't turn it off and keep it off for 2 hours after feeding, it foams right up and fills up the cup with relatively clean water in no time at all.
I had a sock on the input tube. But I also developed a nitrate problem so I took it off. My thinking is to let the food particles flow into the refugium where my macro will either catch it or knock it down to the sand bed where critters will eat it.
But it's a pain turning that skimmer on and off. Is there a flaw somewhere in my thinking here???
I feed daily, chopped frozen for the fish, liquid phyto with vitamins for the coral.
My skimmer is the first pump in the sump. If I don't turn it off and keep it off for 2 hours after feeding, it foams right up and fills up the cup with relatively clean water in no time at all.
I had a sock on the input tube. But I also developed a nitrate problem so I took it off. My thinking is to let the food particles flow into the refugium where my macro will either catch it or knock it down to the sand bed where critters will eat it.
But it's a pain turning that skimmer on and off. Is there a flaw somewhere in my thinking here???