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07/20/2012, 05:05 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Protein Skimmer Operation
Hi everyone, I have set up my salt water tank and currently have it cycling. I have a question concerning the protein skimmer. I purchased a SC65 skimmer from Ebay based on the positive reviews here. I looks like a Bubble Magus skimmer. I turned on the skimmer and it immediately overflowed the skimmer cup. I turned down the flow to 0 and it foams up pretty bad, the cup fills in about an hour. I noticed that it dumps tons of micro bubbles into the compartment that it sits in. I have baffles in my sump but the microbubbles go right through the baffles and into the pump which then gets pumped into the tank. Is this due to the fact that the tank is cycling? I thought the water that flows through the skimmer is returned back to the sump without bubbles. Help
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07/20/2012, 05:17 PM
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Registered Reef Keeper
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Reno, NV
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Leyton at Reno Current Tank Info: Custom 200 gal reef cube with a 20 gal sump, 2 AI SOL LED Fixtures, Super Reef Octopus skimmer, custom made calcium reactor, Apex Lite controller with various modules. |
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07/20/2012, 07:00 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I did that mod already
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