Help with Octopus Skim

[erick_diver]

Hi everyone,

This is my first message here in RC and I love this forum!

I bought an Octopus DNW-150 here in Brazil a few days ago and I´m not so sure if he is doing his job well.
I took some shots of the skimmer and I´ll put here for you guys to say waht do you think about his regulation(don´t know the right word,sorry ).
My system is a 500litres with light stock because it just started about 3 months ago.

The problem is that the foam stay like in the photos but i don´t have a liquid skimmate,and if a try to put the water level higher,then the skimmer overflows.Any sugestions?

Thanks a Lot!
Erick

 

[nebraskareef]

Erick,

It looks like it's breaking in nicely. It took my octopus about 3 weeks to settle down and start pulling the good stuff. Please leave the water level low enough that it won't overflow and forget about it for another couple of weeks, then you can start to make more adjustments.

Have patience!

Welcome to RC!

 

[erick_diver]

Hi nebraskareef

I think my water level is too high do you have any picture of the correct water level in this skimmer?My water level is almost in the neck of the skimmer,do you think i should put it down?

Thank you for the welcome as you can see I took 2 years to write something here!But now I never will stop.

 

[nebraskareef]

Erick, I ran my water level right between the top of the union and the bottom of the cup. This is the water level when air is turned off.

Hope I didn't confuse you!

 

[erick_diver]

I think I understand!!LOL!!!

Tomorrow I´ll put a foto with the air turned off.

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[mg426]

I got to agree its most likely just breaking in. Give it a couple weeks to stabelise and you should be good to go. Welcome to RC !!!!

 

[Tony44]

I have the same skimmer, I set my water level to the point where the foam just barely makes it to the top. Not sure exactly where that is, but it looks to be right at the neck of the collection cup.

 

[erick_diver]

Here is a foto of the water level:

What do you guys think about it?
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