skimmer help

[Brett A Ross]

I bought a turbofloter 1000 skimmer off of marine depot i'm I the process of curing 80lbs of live rock in my tank. my question is I cannot seam to get it not to push water up into the collection cup almost to the top than foams like crazy. the set up is the turbofloater an aqumedic wave runner pump that came with the skimmer the upgraded packaged, with a Rio 600 on the supply recommended by my lfs marine depot say that's ok it sits in about 5'' of water. the adjustment pins are completely pulled out recommended by the lfs, its worse with them in. Ok is this normal. will it settle down. some suggestion by the lfs were I bought the live rock that it would. I hope so just don't look right to me but I'm running out of ideas. i have no skimmer experance so this may be common i did a search but could find no common threads

[Reefland]

If it is pushing up water into the collection cup it sounds to me like there is an adjustment problem. I am not familiar with the Turboflotor, check the collection cup to see if it can be raised and if so lift it to it's highest level.

[Brett A Ross]

i dont see how but i will check with the vendor in the am maby there is an extention i can buy. thanks this is becomming an interesting science project

[Poseidon]

Sounds lik eyou need to raise the skimmer up so it is not so deep in your tank/sump... That should cure the problem, less water in the water column= less water getting in the collection cup.

[Brett A Ross]

i TALKED TO THE VENDOR TODAY THEY TOLD ME THERE IS A BREAKIN PERIOD AND TO WATCH AND WAIT A BIT. I HOPE THIS IS TRUE IM DRIVING MY-SELF CRAZY ON THIS. MAKES ME NUTS NOT TO BE ABLE TO GET THINGS TO WORK

[Poseidon]

i TALKED TO THE VENDOR TODAY THEY TOLD ME THERE IS A BREAKIN PERIOD AND TO WATCH AND WAIT A BIT. I HOPE THIS IS TRUE IM DRIVING MY-SELF CRAZY ON THIS. MAKES ME NUTS NOT TO BE ABLE TO GET THINGS TO WORK

A break in period yes, an overflow period NOWAY! I would try to raise the skimmer out of the water a bit...

[FinsReef]

Two things you can do. The first is to try and slow the input down(from the rio600). The second is to run your skimmer at about 3"depth. You should want about 100-125g of throughput for that skimmer. Do you have any restrictions coming out of your skimmer ie. 90 degree elbows? If so that can allow too much backpressure and causing you your high water level.

[Brett A Ross]

I don't know quite were to start. I thought the vendor was full of it for a while but the other day it started to work well. Than I decide that there was a lot of junk off the live rock sitting around on the bottom of the tank. looking at this I thought to my self, you should stir this up so I did and the skimmer exploded again. I now have learned to trust the vendor, they told me on my first call the problem was the uncured live rock and all the stuff coming off of it. You know if they would explain some of this stuff in the instructions I would cause the anal nooby's like my-self less worry's. I must say the staff at marine depot are very helpful