Heres an odd question

I know that protien skimmers remove bad stuff, as far as food waste, fish waste and what not, and concentrate all that badness into skimmate.

could you use the skimmate from an extablished tank to start a cycle on tank that you just started up? or in a rubbermaid if your trying to cure some dry base rock or sand?

I could be 100% bass ackwards on this, but in my noobly-lodgic it seems like a great idea. better than using a fish and makin him suffer through the cycling process.

 

You could use the skimmate if you wanted. Anything that will break down and go through the nitrogen cycle is gonna work. I'll stick to deli shrimp though because I can put them in a filter sock and pull them out or add more as needed. All up to you though.

 

In a filter sock, what a great idea. Way better then just droping it in the tank...

 

i agree with the shrimp method, BUT, i dont have deli shrimp just layin around, i have butt tons of skimmate being made every day gotta save my pennies ya know?

 

You could just use fish food. Do you feed frozen mysis lol?

 

i feed ocean nutrition frozen formul one and two, and ocean nutrition prime reef flakes.

 

As a matter of fact, I've done that very thing. IME, it was a little faster as the skim mate is DOCs- you don't have to wait for anything to decay.

 

good to know. i think im going to try this method with some base rock i want to add to teh tank

 

Well there you go lol.