vacation

Chago09 · 04/17/2008, 12:34 PM

If I am going on vacation for 11 days and don't trust anyone to touch my skimmer, am I ok to leave it off for the 11 days?? my tank is the one in my sig and it houses, yellow tang, pair of oc clowns, trio of lyretail anthias and a diamond watchman goby.

I don't want the cup to over flow, but I am thinking maybe just run the line from the cup to a bucket. I am just afraid my basement will smell like death when I come home from the skimmate being exposed in a bucket

an411 · 04/17/2008, 01:00 PM

I think that you will be fine with the line running to a 5 gallon bucket put a lid on the bucket and drill a hole on the top and put the line in there if you are worried about the smell

Tswifty · 04/17/2008, 01:09 PM

Like an411 said... cover the bucker and cut a hole in the lid to feed the line through...

If you want even more "stink" protection than that you could create an air vent/ deoderizer out of an old perscription pill bottle.

Just cut another hole in the lid... cut a hole big enough for airline tubing in the top and bottom of the pill bottle. Stuff the pill bottle full of dryer sheets. Then hook up the airline tubing from the bottom of the pill bottle to the vent hole.

Kind of like the top to the AquaC wast collector.

Packersfan21 · 04/17/2008, 01:13 PM

I use an empty milk carton instead of a bucket and it never smells.

04/17/2008, 12:34 PM	#1
Chago09 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Georgetown Posts: 1,132	vacation If I am going on vacation for 11 days and don't trust anyone to touch my skimmer, am I ok to leave it off for the 11 days?? my tank is the one in my sig and it houses, yellow tang, pair of oc clowns, trio of lyretail anthias and a diamond watchman goby. I don't want the cup to over flow, but I am thinking maybe just run the line from the cup to a bucket. I am just afraid my basement will smell like death when I come home from the skimmate being exposed in a bucket __________________ Currently no tank!

04/17/2008, 01:09 PM	#3
Tswifty Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: PA Posts: 14,022	Like an411 said... cover the bucker and cut a hole in the lid to feed the line through... If you want even more "stink" protection than that you could create an air vent/ deoderizer out of an old perscription pill bottle. Just cut another hole in the lid... cut a hole big enough for airline tubing in the top and bottom of the pill bottle. Stuff the pill bottle full of dryer sheets. Then hook up the airline tubing from the bottom of the pill bottle to the vent hole. Kind of like the top to the AquaC wast collector. __________________ "Enough light? Heck I could go barebottom and grow SPS in the stand!" - DiscoReefRover

04/17/2008, 01:13 PM	#4
Packersfan21 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Wabash, IN Posts: 920	I use an empty milk carton instead of a bucket and it never smells. __________________ 90 gallon reef: 1 black ocellaris clown, 1 kole tang, 1 hippo tang, 1 mimic tang,1 leopard wrasse, 1 chromis, 75 gallon FOWLR: 1 blue-spotted puffer, 1 flame angel, 1 snowflake eel Current Tank Info: 90 gallon reef and 75 gallon FOWLR

04/17/2008, 01:00 PM	#2
an411 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Derby CT Posts: 2,861	I think that you will be fine with the line running to a 5 gallon bucket put a lid on the bucket and drill a hole on the top and put the line in there if you are worried about the smell