How do you define "Clean"?

Hi All,

I clean out the collection cup of my Seaclone 150 Protein Skimmer on a daily basis. By clean I mean I take the cup off, dump it out and give it a quick rinse in fresh water.

There is a lot of brown stuff stuck to the inside of the tube inside the collection cup - the part where the skimate rises up from the skimmer. Should I be scrubing that off as well?

Thanks

Adam

 

The skimmer will work better if you do, yes.

I find that a rubber spatula from the kitchen works very well to squeegee the gunk out of the tube. Than just wipe the spatula off on a paper towel. Repeat as necessary!

 

Just don't let the wife catch you using her spatula for that!!!!

 

Thanks All,

good advice on both fronts!

 

Never thought of the spatula, good idea!

Thanks

 

You'll note that I said "from the kitchen" but nowhere did I say "return to kitchen"!

 

Ours already mysteriously disappeared...

 

I find using a soft pastry brush is useful for cleaning skimmer cups. I do mine under the tap about once a week. I found after I left my skimmer cup for about a month the performance is noticably worse.

Keep the pastry brush purely for cleaning the skimmer and certainly don't use one that has been washed up in washing up liquid

 

I just make a cigar out of paper towel and push it through.
You guys clean yours once a day? Wow. I do mine once a week.

 

Once per day is preferred, once per week is more realistic! LOL! I guess somewhere in between would be acceptable! ;D