New to Marine fishkeeping...what equipment is necessary to run 24/7?
With freshwater you can get away with switching filters/skimmers off for different periods.Is it possible/advisable to do the same with Marine?
Cheers,
johnboy88

Im not a marine guy
but why would you want to turn stuff off? cost? noise?
this is a new one on me Only time to turn one off may be if your using dedicated meds that the skimmer may remove???

__________________
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")♥

Various reasons for temporary shut downs,cost,noise(if indoors)wear&tear on equipment etc. Just wanted to know if it was possible or advisable?What effect would it have on a Marine set up?
Johnboy88

you should never turn your filters off - the oxygen eating filteration bacteria will start dying off within minutes. always keep the filters going.

skimmers can be turned off periodically if you need some quiet, but then of course, they will not be doing their work in cleaning organics out of your water. you could compensate by having more live sponges.

it also depends on how heavily you have stocked your tank. most of us tend towards overstocking, so you can quickly overbalance with pollutants building up if you turn any equipment off (a real worry with power cuts).

I turn my skimmer off for 1 hour while I feed my corals


also turn my filters off for five minutes

otherwise almost all the food ends up in them .

__________________










senile old git

Thanks for the replies and advice.Does the same criteria apply to Reef tanks?
johnboy88

I was talking about my reeftank ,you dont have any corals in a fish only tank.

__________________










senile old git

Thanks for that.
johnboy88

your welcome

__________________










senile old git