just bought a skimmer and never saw one run before...

[TOURKID]

Good evening

Well, I bought a coarl life super skimmer today, for my 45 gallon tank

I assembled it, first time i put it in the tank the lil bubble box was spitting out tons of microbubbles, but the skimmer itself looked to be doing its job, making lil bubbles

I took it out to make some adjustments on the little box and i tuened the pump to face the other way (having problems with box sitting on top of pump, but in picture they seem to be a good distance apart)

I adjusted, and turned it on (only 50% commpacity for 72 hours)
The bubble box wasent spitting out micro bubbles anymore, but the skimmer itself looked like it wasent doing anything, no bubbles not even a wave to let me know the water was flowing thru it. I blew into the 'air inlet silencer' and a second later the skimmer looked like I thoght it should.. but only for a moment.

It was getting late and time to turn the lights off.. i took it back out of the tank and decided to try agian tomoorrow, been a long day.

Can anyone share theyre experiences with a skimmer? Im not sure what to look for to make sure its working correctly at first

 

[wazo90925]

skimmers take a little while to break in. when i got my skimmer i had crazy microbubbles for the first week. but if you play with the adjustments for a while you will figure it out. give it some time.

 

[bertoni]

Can you post a picture of your setup? The skimmer should be producing visible air bubbles in the tube at all times when it's running. Is the pump too deep in the water?

 

[slant77]

how do you know if the pump is to deep

 

[bertoni]

The instructions give a maxiumum depth. I moved mine up in the water column until it started showing signs of drawing air through the water input.

 

[Nabob89]

hey i just bought the same setup a few days ago and set it up yesterday......yeah my return box was producing some bubbles...but not many.....my problem is that the silencer fell into the water as i was setting up, now it won't stop making a "whistling" noise.....its very annoying.....should I take the skimmer off and let it sit in the sun for a few days? (i think the water in the tube is making the noise)

 

[bertoni]

You should be able to try off the relevant part with a towel or the like in a few minutes. On the other hand, I would think that the skimmer would dry out on its own fairly quickly. You might need to clean some part of it with fresh water.

 

[Nabob89]

ok i'll try that...thanks

 

[TOURKID]

im thinking mine was working incorrectly because i got water in my inlet tube...

im not running it right now, going to try agian when i get home, but lastnight it wasent making any bubbles

the pump and box are both at required mesurments.

 

[TOURKID]

oh... are micro bubbles bad?

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

microbubbles arn't really bad they just make the tank look bad so mainly just cosmetics. as for the coralife skimmer i can't help you out as i have an ASM G2. but i can tell you that it will need some time running in the tank to break it in before you really see it doing something.

 

[sttroyiii]

Im about to buy the coralife skimmer as well. Whats the typical break in time?

 

[TOURKID]

IT SAYS 72 HOURS.... for break in time. going to try to hook mine back up today