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Just saw this thread and want to add this anecdote. My corals have been much extended the last few days, both softies especially and sps. It was a noticeable and dramatic improvement. So I began the flight check of what the heck has changed. That's when I noticed my Deltec hob skimmer was not skimming. It was running but no foam, no skimmate. It's happened before, I take it apart, clean it thoroughly and all is well.
The improvement is due to more food being available to the corals during the down period. My water was too clean. So I am going to run my skimmer only during the day for a trial period and let the phytos do their thing at night. Their "thing" being feed my beloved corals. I'll keep you posted but I also don't think it's going to be that hard on the skimmer to start up every day... I could be wrong.
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