Roger,
You might remember me - I asked about why my skim was blue colored. Well, I can report that after three days of blue skim, the color gradually changed back to the dark green that I am familiar with.
Now, however, after many days of working great and pulling off 200-300 cc of skim each day...it appears that my 9010 has stopped working (?)... Can you just confirm from my description that things seems to be OK?
I pulled the skimmer forward in the sump today (only about a one inch re-position)...and in doing so, one of the rubber suction cups fell off (it actually worked and was holding tight to the bottom of the sump). In order to retrieve it, I took the skimmer out of the sump. After retrieving and replacing the suction cup, I put the skimmer back in. Since then, no more foam! It has been almost eight hours - so I don't think it was just because I stuck my hand in the water.
So I just took the thing out, took it apart, made sure there was no debris clogging anything and put it together carefully to make sure all was properly connected.
Now, here is what I have:
The pump is working.
The drain pipe and drain hole in the back are draining properly (looks just like it used to). There is no water coming out of the ozone hole.
The water level inside is right at the level of the pipe/drain hole (is this proper?) and there are some very fine bubbles being made.
The blue screw is in place, but loosened almost all the way.
All of these things seem right to me...and, as I said, I do have water flow and bubble production. But the bubbles do not rise into the cup at all, they don't rise into the column coming into the cup, and there is no actual foam being produced (just bubbles)....
Have I missed something here? Did I break something when I moved the skimmer? I'm very nervous about this and any advice would be appreciated.
Paul
You might remember me - I asked about why my skim was blue colored. Well, I can report that after three days of blue skim, the color gradually changed back to the dark green that I am familiar with.
Now, however, after many days of working great and pulling off 200-300 cc of skim each day...it appears that my 9010 has stopped working (?)... Can you just confirm from my description that things seems to be OK?
I pulled the skimmer forward in the sump today (only about a one inch re-position)...and in doing so, one of the rubber suction cups fell off (it actually worked and was holding tight to the bottom of the sump). In order to retrieve it, I took the skimmer out of the sump. After retrieving and replacing the suction cup, I put the skimmer back in. Since then, no more foam! It has been almost eight hours - so I don't think it was just because I stuck my hand in the water.
So I just took the thing out, took it apart, made sure there was no debris clogging anything and put it together carefully to make sure all was properly connected.
Now, here is what I have:
The pump is working.
The drain pipe and drain hole in the back are draining properly (looks just like it used to). There is no water coming out of the ozone hole.
The water level inside is right at the level of the pipe/drain hole (is this proper?) and there are some very fine bubbles being made.
The blue screw is in place, but loosened almost all the way.
All of these things seem right to me...and, as I said, I do have water flow and bubble production. But the bubbles do not rise into the cup at all, they don't rise into the column coming into the cup, and there is no actual foam being produced (just bubbles)....
Have I missed something here? Did I break something when I moved the skimmer? I'm very nervous about this and any advice would be appreciated.
Paul
