Skimmer/ Epoxy

[agranoff]

Hi,

I know its normal for a skimmer to go crazy after using epoxy but in my tank its been over a week now, I did a big water change, even removed the epoxy and my skimmer cup fills up with water in a few minutes so I left it off for a week, did a water change and turned it back on with the issue still there.

Any suggestions?

Should I remove the water in the skimmer cup and dump it out or put back into tank since its clean saltwater?


Thanks.

 

[Mr. Comer]

I used a two part epoxy and it was a pain to get all of it out. I took all of it out and did two 60g and a 30g water changes, ran a ton of carbon, and my skimmer still went crazy (brand new Aquamaxx co-2). I went skimmerless for a couple weeks, ran a bunch more carbon, and now have a lifereef skimmer. All is good now. All skimmers react differently to epoxy. For me, I will never use epoxy again.

 

[oblio]

My experience with epoxy and skimmers has resulted in these actions. If I use enough epoxy/crazy glue that the skimmer overflows I have to figure out how to run the skimmer without it overflowing (let me explain) Like turning the input volume of water WAY down. After a few hours, I surmise that whatever causes the skimmer to overflow is now mostly isolated to the foam head. Then I can turn the volume back up towards normal and the skimmer pushes out the baddies and then returns to operating normal or near normal. It seems if the skimmer just sits there and overflows you never remove anything, you just circulate it and never seem to make any progress.
I understand some skimmers are much harder to "turn down" than others, mine happens to be a recirculating type, thus 2 pumps, one for volume, and one to airate/recirculate. This allows me to simply turn down the incoming volume to a point that the skimmer IS working but not overflowing.
Try raising the skimmer higher in the water column, reducing incoming water.

 

[Harry_Y]

I just lower my skimmer level and slowly raise it until it is back to normal.