Water Coming out of top of skimmer

Tutto · 10/29/2011, 07:12 PM

So I hooked up my skimmer last night, not sure exactly how they work.

Where the waste and stuff is supposed to collect, in that top compartment, it is filled with water that went up with the bubbles, and a small amount is going out the top and leaking down the side back into the tank. Is this supposed to happen? If I turn the adjuster on the water output, it makes it less or more water that comes out of the top part.

daplatapus · 10/29/2011, 07:19 PM

I'm sure someone else will speak up here, but no that is not supposed to happen. Open the outlet valve until the bubbles are just breaking in the neck of the skimmer. Not sure which skimmer you have but depth of water it's in is fairly crucial. With mine 1" of water was the difference of it working or overflowing like yours is. Also, mine (the reef octopus 2000 int) needed a break in period where you ran it with the outlet valve wide open for 3 weeks I think before trying to adjust it.

HTH

Palting · 10/29/2011, 08:39 PM

Only bubbly water should come out of the top part. Ths is your waste or skim. You can set it by how high you allow the bubble column to rise in the neck using the "adjuster" as you called it. It will take at least a day or so before you see any waste or skim collected. Here is what one day's worth looks like for mine, set to "dry" skim:

Here's what a few hours worth should look like, set to "wet skim:

This is 5 days worth of "dry skim":

HTH!!

10/29/2011, 07:12 PM	#1
Tutto Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Killingly, CT Posts: 120	Water Coming out of top of skimmer So I hooked up my skimmer last night, not sure exactly how they work. Where the waste and stuff is supposed to collect, in that top compartment, it is filled with water that went up with the bubbles, and a small amount is going out the top and leaking down the side back into the tank. Is this supposed to happen? If I turn the adjuster on the water output, it makes it less or more water that comes out of the top part.

10/29/2011, 07:19 PM	#2
daplatapus Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Port Alberni, B.C., Canada Posts: 895	I'm sure someone else will speak up here, but no that is not supposed to happen. Open the outlet valve until the bubbles are just breaking in the neck of the skimmer. Not sure which skimmer you have but depth of water it's in is fairly crucial. With mine 1" of water was the difference of it working or overflowing like yours is. Also, mine (the reef octopus 2000 int) needed a break in period where you ran it with the outlet valve wide open for 3 weeks I think before trying to adjust it. HTH __________________ 130 lbs Tonga LR, GFO and Carbon reactors, Tunze ozmolator ATO, 2- 20 gal QT tanks, Current Tank Info: 80 gal display 48L X 24H X16D, 2 MP-40's, Odyssea 2-250W MH 4-HO T-5 Actinic's, 80 lbs Aragonite sand, 4 - 150W titanium heaters, Reeflo Baracuda return pump, 150gal sump, Filter Guys Reef Miser 6 stage + 1 Dual RO/DI, LifeReef 48" Skimmer

10/29/2011, 08:39 PM	#3
Palting Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,912	Only bubbly water should come out of the top part. Ths is your waste or skim. You can set it by how high you allow the bubble column to rise in the neck using the "adjuster" as you called it. It will take at least a day or so before you see any waste or skim collected. Here is what one day's worth looks like for mine, set to "dry" skim: Here's what a few hours worth should look like, set to "wet skim: This is 5 days worth of "dry skim": HTH!! __________________ Anything I post is just an opinion. One of many in this hobby. Believe and follow at your own risk of rapid and complete annihilation of all life in your tank :) Current Tank Info: Incept 3/2010, 150 RR, 50g sump, 20g fuge, 150w 15K MH x3, T5 actinics x8, moonlight LED x6, 1400gph return, Koralia 1400 x4, 300 g skimmer, 4 tangs, 2 mandarins, 2 perc, 6 line, 3 cardinals, 2 firefish, SPS, LPS, zoas, palys, shrooms, clam Last edited by Palting; 10/29/2011 at 08:49 PM.

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