Skimmer Over Flow

reefgirl189 · #1 02-01-2012, 01:29 PM

It must be skimmer week because the same thing happened to me. Mine was working fine and I was thinking to myself what a great job I did tuning it (haha!) Then, bam, overflow. No one had touched it in 4 days since the last cleaning either. Luckily I caught it before all the skimmate went back in the tank. I'm still not sure what happened as nothing had changed.

DAVE · #2 02-01-2012, 02:01 PM

You are lucky. Unfortunately all of my skimmate (about 10 days worth) made it back into the tank.

It has happened to me a few times now, there is nothing I can really do about it. When I am home I empty the cup every few days just in case, but since I have been gone for the past 2 weeks I didn't get a chance.

Hopefully the sps will be fine, it has happened in the past with no real ill effects (I do have about 400g of water though). When I get back home Thursday I will just do a bigger then normal water change.

Mine is a Vertex Alpha Kone 300.

Maverick00 · #3 02-01-2012, 02:05 PM

once again, same thing happen to me with the vertex In-100. I suspect mine was lack of maintenance as well.

MarkoD · #4 02-01-2012, 02:34 PM

My skimmer is a month and half old. I doubt there's maintence I need to do.

And someone please don't say is breaking in. It's not

Lampshade · #5 02-01-2012, 03:41 PM

I had a snail die in my tank that caused it. It was a big snail, but I guess it put off some nasty stuff, because my skimmer went from a very dry skim to overflowing until I pulled the snail out the next day.

Palmer · #6 02-01-2012, 03:53 PM

In my short 2 year history of having protein skimmers my only thoughts are-

- Your skimmer is fairly new so the composition of the skimmer changes as film etc build up and I found I had to dial my skimmer in more often in the beginning when first getting it.

- Also I had this happen when I either slightly repositioned the skimmer and caused a slight crimp in the air line or when I ended up getting some salt creep into the airline.

Hope you solve the problem!

Palmer

Aquattro · #7 02-01-2012, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Palmer

- Your skimmer is fairly new so the composition of the skimmer changes as film etc build up and I found I had to dial my skimmer in more often in the beginning when first getting it.

Is that the long version of "it's breaking in"?