Does a skimmer take out salt in your tank.

HEY GUYS


i have my skimmer coming in a couple of days, i have had a skimmer on my big tank, but my salinity was really bad so i guess the skimmer is taking out some of the salt,

b/c salt does not evaporation so idk what is going on, anyone have any ideas.

 

yeah, a skimmer removes the water from your tank, and thus some salt too. Thats why I like running mine pretty dry.

 

No, I do not think skimming will remove salt to that degree. Do you have a lot of salt creep?

What are you using to test your salinity? I had a cheapo refractometer that had me banging my head for a long time due to it's inconsistency. Got a quality one and never looked back.

 

refractometer i have a old one, and i need to get a new one, but idk
we have two people saying to different things i would like to get someone else to get in on the conversation, and i did have a little amount of creep of my salt but it was a 72g tank and idk if that would be a lot for that size of the tank.

 

We aren't really saying different things, just a difference of degree. A skimmer really shouldn't affect salinity that much, but wet skimming on a small tank,def will. Ask seano hermano on here. But Bugz is prob right, i'm guessing more of a testing prob than a skimmer.

 

Hey joe, instead of a new refractometer get some 35ppt calibration fluid. Better use of time. My refratometer read 1.024 and it was really 1.019. I calibrate every so often so that I know what my salinity is not guessing of cold rodi water.

 

LOL, or do this, common sense answer that saves alot of money!!

 

Yes, a skimmer does remove salt.

Dissolved organics are attracted to the SW foam, and the dirty foam is what rises into the cup, separating itself from the tank water. How much salt it removes depends on how wet you are skimming, but if you are changing water as a part of routine maintenance, you'll never notice any fluctuation in your SG.

 

ok thank you everyone, i will look in to the 35ppt calibration fluid and thanks for much for your help.