Still Not Happy With My Skimmer

dobz55 · 11-11-2006, 09:01 PM

Thanks LEEBCA for the skimmer info but I am still some what unsure if I have mine doing as it should, it is a Red Sea prizm skimmer

***Reefland*** · 11-11-2006, 09:45 PM

What is it, or is it not, doing?

dobz55 · 11-11-2006, 09:55 PM

Well to be honest I am not sure I now have foam/bubbles going into the collection cup but they are very watery is this how they should be my tank is only 3 weeks old so maybe there isn,t much work for it to do yet no fish in it just live rock and 0ne snail, if I turn the skimmer down any lower I get no flow into the cup

***Reefland*** · 11-11-2006, 10:02 PM

Adjust it down just a bit. You do not want wet foam going into the collection cup, so if you adjust it down you will begin to get a dryer, nastier foam collecting and this is what you want. The skimmer will not collect waste as soon as you plug it up, it will take it a little bit to really start performing. Don't over adjust it to try to get it to collect something.

dobz55 · 11-12-2006, 07:14 AM

Thank you the moment I can only get wet bubbles out the top which then flow into the cup or just a lot of foam forming in the chamber but no going far enough up the chamber to flow into the cup I have left at at the latter setting and will wait and see if it starts to form a dryer foam

11-11-2006, 09:01 PM	#1
dobz55 Citizen Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 171	Still Not Happy With My Skimmer Thanks LEEBCA for the skimmer info but I am still some what unsure if I have mine doing as it should, it is a Red Sea prizm skimmer

11-11-2006, 09:45 PM	#2
*Reefland* Owner Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Bardstown, KY Posts: 13,173	What is it, or is it not, doing? __________________ Scott Z. 75 Gallon Reef Log Powered by Reefland's Personal Online Aquarium Log

11-11-2006, 10:02 PM	#4
*Reefland* Owner Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Bardstown, KY Posts: 13,173	Adjust it down just a bit. You do not want wet foam going into the collection cup, so if you adjust it down you will begin to get a dryer, nastier foam collecting and this is what you want. The skimmer will not collect waste as soon as you plug it up, it will take it a little bit to really start performing. Don't over adjust it to try to get it to collect something. __________________ Scott Z. 75 Gallon Reef Log Powered by Reefland's Personal Online Aquarium Log

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11-11-2006, 09:55 PM	#3
dobz55 Citizen Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 171	Well to be honest I am not sure I now have foam/bubbles going into the collection cup but they are very watery is this how they should be my tank is only 3 weeks old so maybe there isn,t much work for it to do yet no fish in it just live rock and 0ne snail, if I turn the skimmer down any lower I get no flow into the cup

11-12-2006, 07:14 AM	#5
dobz55 Citizen Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 171	Thank you the moment I can only get wet bubbles out the top which then flow into the cup or just a lot of foam forming in the chamber but no going far enough up the chamber to flow into the cup I have left at at the latter setting and will wait and see if it starts to form a dryer foam

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