Water isint evaporating?

I just thought its weird, i havent had to topp off my water for the past couple days i did my 5 gall water change on friday so that was three days ago and i usually have to top off about once every other day. This is just really strange, only thing that has changed is that the skimmer has been turned off because it's been acting up really bad. But other than that everything is normal.

What could make the water not evaporate, im very puzzled here.

 

so you think its jsut because no skimmer, i new the skimmer always took in a ton of water, but i didn't realize it took in that much

 

I have learned to always do that


My evap rate is quite a bit quicker when I am skimming. I dry skim too.

 

if i had done this thread it would have read more like

"My tanks are no longer evaporating! What am I doing right?" Then again I have an auto top off system sitting in a box, so whose fault is it that I have to fill the tanks?


My brother's of course. - he lacks a 3reef account so I pick on him when I want.

 

hahaha! maybe my skimmer was supposed to be a little **** and not work right! thanks PITA skimmer thanks to you i dont have to top off quite as often i guess this is the only good thing that i have gotten out of this skimmer lately

 

your welcome good idea , i just dont know how long my tank can go skimmerless but right now im sure loving the no noise, last night was the best sleep ive gotten in a really long time

 

Sorry, I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I am leaving on Thursday for a week's long vacation and the idea of my house sitter not having to top off as much is appealing.

So with an average bio load, how long could a tank go skimmerless??

 

No worries about hijacking, I'm wondering the same