Quote Originally Posted by JimD
One thing is obvious to me, the BakPak skimmer, its not nearly efficient enough to handle the load, they are way over rated from the manufactuer. You might want to concider a larger skimmer... Another thing may be the sleeper goby, they disturb the sandbed and it releases whatever detritus that may be present and the skimmer cant handle the load so it just sinks back to the bottom and decays causing elevated nitrates and possibly ammonia... I doubt more water changes will remedy the situation >long term<.
the skimmer seems to work well enough, but it can never hurt to upgrade, just in case. i got the goby simply because i thought he may stir the sand a little more and that some stuff would be sucked up instead of no stuff. maybe it was a mistake, i'm not sure. seemed like a good idea at the time. if anyone knows more on this, send it to me, please.