My filter spits out these sometimes.

t5Nitro

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Every so often my filter is spitting out a ton of micro bubbles, scares my fish I think, anyone else have this problem?
 
Yes it happens. You probably have a foam filter on a power head?

If you don't want your nitrates to go up I'd ditch the foam filters.
 
The only time my canister ever spit out microbubbles was when I had floss in the filter and it was clogged with detritus. It was impeding flow; air built up in the filter, then poured out of the spraybar all a few times every hour. Once I unclogged the filter and cleaned it up, the problem went away :)
 
its on my filter that it spits these out every so often, yes it does have a foam filter along with carbon and some other thing. What do you put in, in place of the foam filter?
 
I just had the canister filter out a few days ago to clean it, it didnt do it before I dont think, first time I cleaned it.
 
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