bgreenlee
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I have a new system that I started about 6 weeks ago. It is a 29 gallon display with a 10 gal sump/refugium. Not sure if it matters much for this issue, but the parameters are 1.025, NO3=0, NO2=0, NH3=0, 78deg, PO4=0, and pH=8.2.
I set the tankup with established live rock from an established 55 gallon that I have at my parents house, so there was very little cycling. When I moved the tank I brough a few fish, 2 chromis and a lawnmover blenny. I also have a small frag of star polyps, 6 polyps of candy cane coral, a small stalk of xenia, as well as a fair sized clean up crew, 6 nassarius snails, 5 black mexican snails, 1 turbo snail, and about 12 blue legged hermit crabs. I am using a Aqualine protein skimmer, it is the sump model for up to 75 gallons. It is sitting on a stand in the inlet part of my sump in about 5 inches of water.
Anyhow, this morning I got up to catch a flight and went down to check on the tank. All seemed well, skimmer skimming, pumps running, snails snailing, etc. About thirty minutes later I went back through the room the tank is in and the return pump to the tank was cavitating, that caught my attention and as I got closer to the tank I get a nice wet feeling in my socks. For some reason my protein skimmer water level had raised itself very high and water had overfilled my drain on the skimmer. I had to readjust the drain on the skimmer down nearly 2 inches to reset the water level in the skimmer to get it back into production.
Anyone have any idea why this would have done this, I had not added makeup watter or food since last night.
Sorry for the long post.
I set the tankup with established live rock from an established 55 gallon that I have at my parents house, so there was very little cycling. When I moved the tank I brough a few fish, 2 chromis and a lawnmover blenny. I also have a small frag of star polyps, 6 polyps of candy cane coral, a small stalk of xenia, as well as a fair sized clean up crew, 6 nassarius snails, 5 black mexican snails, 1 turbo snail, and about 12 blue legged hermit crabs. I am using a Aqualine protein skimmer, it is the sump model for up to 75 gallons. It is sitting on a stand in the inlet part of my sump in about 5 inches of water.
Anyhow, this morning I got up to catch a flight and went down to check on the tank. All seemed well, skimmer skimming, pumps running, snails snailing, etc. About thirty minutes later I went back through the room the tank is in and the return pump to the tank was cavitating, that caught my attention and as I got closer to the tank I get a nice wet feeling in my socks. For some reason my protein skimmer water level had raised itself very high and water had overfilled my drain on the skimmer. I had to readjust the drain on the skimmer down nearly 2 inches to reset the water level in the skimmer to get it back into production.
Anyone have any idea why this would have done this, I had not added makeup watter or food since last night.
Sorry for the long post.
