Wet Foam vs. Dry Foam

[Curtswearing]

Sorry for taking the thread off track. That wasn't my intention. I had to edit my post a little because I was mainly trying to encourage people to think things through, research, and then decide for themselves rather than say Dr. Ron said this or Eric Bourneman said that. I'm sorry I didn't see this post previously. I was in the midst of a huge project at work plus it's tax season.

Of course I don't think you were an idiot for not buying XYZ.com. I don't even think there is such a company. I was trying to give an anology that just because an "expert" says you should buy a particular stock, that doesn't make it true. In fact, some of those experts have been charged with multimillion dollar penalties by the S.E.C. for their bad advice. It was an anology gone bad. Sorry about that. (See the confusion that can happen when accountants are allowed to touch the letter keys instead of just the number keys ).

But back to bad advice. I originally said I wouldn't go there, but I guess I should now. I personally think that Eric is wrong and I find his reasoning questionable. Our closed systems accumulate nutrients and nasties over time. If you are running a tank for a while and intend to continue upgrading to new tanks every couple of years, maybe leaving things to accumulate will work until your next teardown. If you want to have your tank be fairly permanent (mine is built into my wall so that means it is definately permanent), I'm all for getting as much of the DOC's, detritus, etc. out of the system as possible with continuous skimming.

[maffu]

I might be being a little over spiritual here but with the Aquamedic thing I have.. I just adjust the air flow and let it find what feels like a comfy rate of production.... and it usually kicks up with wet... then settles down and gets a bit drier and settles somewhere not too wet.. not too dry...

It seems to have a sweet spot where its ticking along pulling out first class gubbins... I am sure it will change as I begin to get the creatures into the wet stuff.

And boy does it produce some of the funkiest smelling gook out there.... hmmm an idea for a poll is born...

That might be herecy in some eyes...


On the LFS front... being a newbie to this I have found the 'so wheres yours?' question works wonders... the bull tends to get skimmed in conversation pretty quickly then!!!

[gdwats2]

what on earth are you talking about?

[lizardarm]

anyhoo....
i tend to go with the wetter foam because my skimmer is a nautilus te and that's about all i can get the thing to do. lol

[Tom Vick]

I tend to go wetter...as a side note...my skimmer was not performing correctly...took out the bio balls in the tower and scrubbed them...now it works like a champ!

[Witfull]

they can collect some junk at times.

[Tigger]

My vote goes to wet skimming. I notice that if I were to use dry skimming, the neck of the skimmer will be coated w a layer of sluge and impedes the performance of my skimmer. i m using a german needlewheel and a Schuran Jetskim.