ITGuy wrote:
Well here is something I noticed this morning. Quite a few bristleworms,
can't tell if they are dead or not, floating at the top towards the back of
the tank. I heard that a skimmer removes the proteins that some of the
clean up crew need. If this is the case, could I be killing my clean up
crew with the skimmer?

Bristle worms eat things much more substantial than the crud a skimmer removes.
Something else is killing your worms.

George Patterson
If you torture the data long enough, eventually it will confess
to anything.