Protein Skimmer Cleaning & Waste?

[sophos9]

As the title, how much waste does your protein skimmer collect per week....? My Deltec MCE300 collects about 2cm (30ml?) per week

How often do you clean around the cup/clean the unit?

Cheers

 

[SkiFletch]

My modified EuroReef skimmer collects about 1/2 cup every 3 days

 

[Musho3210]

any chance you guys can tell me what the stocking level is and if you have ozone and what size tank?

My tunze 9002 on my 20 gallon collects 0 cups of skimmate a week. Well thats cause i dont have any fish in my tank and the tank isnt even mature and there was a very little amount of die off from the live rock and when it was dying off the skimmer was off. It has collected water though.

 

[sophos9]

180ltr with 1 large coral, 2 clowns, 9 hermits and 5 nitrous snails...

No ozone...

 

[SkiFletch]

My modified EuroReef skimmer collects about 1/2 cup every 3 days

Sure, stock is as follows (I consider this heavily stocked for a measely 45)

Solorensis Wrasse
8-line Wrasse
Leopard Wrasse
Exquisite Wrasse
Purple Firefish
2 Ocellaris Clowns
Bar Goby
Pseudochromis Springeri
Bunch of snails/hermits
LOTS of corals

Ozone is employed, 25mg/hr directly into the skimmer