My 300 gallon acrylic tank

[steve the plumb]

it smells to

 

[steve the plumb]

the bubbles in the neck have stayed consistently small

 

[steve the plumb]

in the top part of the body aswell.I am getting nice small bubbles

 

[steve the plumb]

I took a video again this is with the wet neck off

 

[jnarowe]

looking good. I hope you can get the wet neck dialed in as that will save you a LOT of cleaning chores.

 

[erics3000]

sweet poop...

I love the sailfin. I have had mine for about 2 years and he is a hardy fish. When I took out of the 150 and pooped him in the 300 he was loving it. Room to swim and all it makes it worth it to know the fisha re alittle happier...

 

[steve the plumb]

The wet neck works fine I just wanted to see how much skim mate I would get without it.I find it does keep the top part of the skimmer clean.Its pretty easy to adjust and so far the skimmer has been very consistent.It hasn't gone nuts at all.

 

[michika]

So how does everyone get their skimmer to go nuts? Mine just skims considerably less when something happens, e.g. hand in the water, etc.

 

[steve the plumb]

My old one would stop skimming when I fed and if you shut the power off it would go nuts when the power came back on.Water changes my old skimmer would go nuts when I did a water change.Bubbles would rise and water would start to fill the bucket.I have heard this happen to many.

 

[steve the plumb]

I am using the wet neck again and I do find the top of the skimmer cup is cleaner.Man this thing gives off a lot of skim mate.I just cleaned it this morning and I already have some good skim mate.I will take some pics.

 

[steve the plumb]

I cleaned the skimmer and this is one days worth of skimmate with the wet neck on.

 

[steve the plumb]

 

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[jnarowe]

That tank is polluted man! j/k :lol:

 

[steve the plumb]

yes it is nice to know the skimmer is working and cleaning up the tank.

 

[steve the plumb]

well after seeing that all my fish are alive and the water quality is good I bought some more fish and corals over the last 2 weeks.My PH bus for my controller is defective so I am waiting for another one.My skimmer is working fine and I raised my lights to 5" off the top.I noticed the acrylic doesn't get as hot and the light spread is better.I think I need to get better quality bulbs next.Here are some pics

 

[steve the plumb]

 

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a goby I bought 4 types one decided the tank wasn't big enough and jumped

 

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[steve the plumb]