Re: Protein skimmer - what SHOULD I be seeing in the waste cup?

Pszemol wrote:
The amount of waste in the skimmer WILL strongly depend
on how big is the bioload of your tank. So clean cup can mean
that there is nothing wrong with the skimmer but your tank
is just clean.

You should be able to adjust the skimmer to just get tea colored water
out of it. (It should be much darker though).

Perhaps you have a preset skimmer, and not much you can do about it.
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