change in skimmer performance

[aerius007]

Is there any kind of maintenance I should do to my skimmer? For whatever reason I noticed that it is releasing a ton of microbubbles into my sump, and many are making it into my DT. There is a bubble plate at the bottom of the skimmer that when I first bought it I could see the bubbles "thrusting" upwards through the plate. The very bottom of the skimmer didnt have any bubbles at all. Now I dont see that "thrusting" and the entire skimmer is full of microbubbles.

I did take out the pump today and gave it a quick cleaning, nothing changed.

 

[aerius007]

It looked like this

and now it looks like

 

[Esquare]

Has the water level changed? Is the outlet submerged?

 

[Burgman]

Hi,

You do need to do maintenance on the pump every once in a while. You will have to determine the frequency, I would start with every six months and take it from there. Also clean out the venturi hole and the rest of the skimmer body as needed. Hope this helps.

Dave

 

[BrunstuckyJoe]

Did you check the impeller?

 

[anaelitz]

clean out the venturi hole...this is common in skimmers to have a little build up inside the venturi to limit, no matter how little, the air intake and cause bubbles released into the sump

 

[Kreeger1]

pretty sure it's the 2 tubes of epoxy he used that day