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Hi Everyone,
Long-time reader, first time poster, I have a problem with my skimmer not producing much skimmate, I have 2 skimmers currently, 1 HOB Reef Octopus BH 1000 thats been up and running for about a year now (so fully broken in), and 1 Reef Octopus 110 INT been running for little under 3 weeks (possibly not fully broken in). My tank is 70G with a 55G sump, currently has what I consider a heavy bioload with the following fish: 1x Copperband butterfly, 3x Resplendant Anthias, 2x Lyretail anthias, 2x Pajama Cardinals, 2x Firefish, 1x BG Chromis, 2x Fire shrimp, 2x Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, 3x Peppermint Shrimp, 1x Yellow Tang (Currently in sump until I set up my second tank, I feed him a 5x5 inch piece of algae everyday plus whatever overflows from my regular DT feeding since I dont shut down the pumps). I feed about 3x a day a mix of a ton of different frozen foods such a mysis, cyclops, angel mix, brine shrimp, squid, and whatever else is in the prepared cubes from hikari, mixed with oyster eggs and amino acids.
The problem I have is that the BH1000 is not producing anything (it used to produce skimmate quite well before I redid the tank a month ago and doubled the live rock amount and took out most of the sand). And the 110INT only produces when I feed, then goes back to not producing anything, the water level in the 110 (top of the bubbles before it foams) is at the level of the collection cup.
I am running carbon on the tank thinking there may be oils or surfactants that are messing with the foam production but after 2 days of carbon it is still the same, not sure what is going on, hoping someone here can help me out, thanks in advance!
Long-time reader, first time poster, I have a problem with my skimmer not producing much skimmate, I have 2 skimmers currently, 1 HOB Reef Octopus BH 1000 thats been up and running for about a year now (so fully broken in), and 1 Reef Octopus 110 INT been running for little under 3 weeks (possibly not fully broken in). My tank is 70G with a 55G sump, currently has what I consider a heavy bioload with the following fish: 1x Copperband butterfly, 3x Resplendant Anthias, 2x Lyretail anthias, 2x Pajama Cardinals, 2x Firefish, 1x BG Chromis, 2x Fire shrimp, 2x Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, 3x Peppermint Shrimp, 1x Yellow Tang (Currently in sump until I set up my second tank, I feed him a 5x5 inch piece of algae everyday plus whatever overflows from my regular DT feeding since I dont shut down the pumps). I feed about 3x a day a mix of a ton of different frozen foods such a mysis, cyclops, angel mix, brine shrimp, squid, and whatever else is in the prepared cubes from hikari, mixed with oyster eggs and amino acids.
The problem I have is that the BH1000 is not producing anything (it used to produce skimmate quite well before I redid the tank a month ago and doubled the live rock amount and took out most of the sand). And the 110INT only produces when I feed, then goes back to not producing anything, the water level in the 110 (top of the bubbles before it foams) is at the level of the collection cup.
I am running carbon on the tank thinking there may be oils or surfactants that are messing with the foam production but after 2 days of carbon it is still the same, not sure what is going on, hoping someone here can help me out, thanks in advance!
