[stugray]

I was just wondering.....

What if we ran a skimmer very wet and 'recycled' the cleanest part of the skimmate back to the tank? Could we make a skimmate concentrator?

I was imagining a skimmer with very wet skimmate. When the collection cup filled to the proper level, then SOME of the skimmate would go back to the tank.

The question is: Can we find a region in the collection cup that is cleaner then all the rest of the cup? Maybe by the way the detritus settles.... If we pull from the middle can we get cleaner water?

It just seems that if you could make this work, then you could run a skimmer as wet as possible, and just flush the collection cup when it is 'nasty enough'. I even think you could run a auto-wetneck using this concept.

Thoughts?

Stu