Why is my skimmer going nuts?

[jason604]

ok this skimmer is rly stressing me out.. it literally takes only 1 hairline of a turn for it to overfill like mad or bubbles to drop all the way down. when i do find the perfect spot it will work great for like 5-8 hrs then when i come back to look at it the bubbles drop all the way down again... what am i doing wrong? i raised the skimmer another 1' so its at 7" of water now and i have to tune it to nearly a fully closed air tuner for it to have bubbles near the top of the neck which i normally have for my other tank

[e46er]

Originally Posted by jason604

ok this skimmer is rly stressing me out.. it literally takes only 1 hairline of a turn for it to overfill like mad or bubbles to drop all the way down. when i do find the perfect spot it will work great for like 5-8 hrs then when i come back to look at it the bubbles drop all the way down again... what am i doing wrong? i raised the skimmer another 1' so its at 7" of water now and i have to tune it to nearly a fully closed air tuner for it to have bubbles near the top of the neck which i normally have for my other tank

mine does that i also have a vertex in180 its in 8" of water.
I get about an inch in the container over a week or so but the smallest turn and it overflows in 20 min.
I have a small bioload so i figured it was fairly normal since the 8" is the reccomended height IIRC but im sure I didnt guess when I made my stand for it.
so if i run it in say 6" of water you guys are saying I should have a easier time finding the sweet spot?

[e46er]

i also had the orignal pump crap out a few months ago and am now using a sicce psk1000

[jason604]

yea i thought vertex in-180s r good skimmers.. im rly having doubts mybe i should switch b4 my system is in full action

[jason604]

Originally Posted by e46er

i also had the orignal pump crap out a few months ago and am now using a sicce psk1000

So I did some research n it seems like almost everyone who had this skimmer had this problem. But the problem is not with the skimmer design itself but with the cheap chinese pump that comes stock with it. A lot of ppl says the bubble blaster 3000 works great with the skimmer but a new bubble blaster cost more than what I paid for the whole skimmer n pump so I dunno. So the sicce is having the same problem with with ur original pump as well?

[e46er]

It pulls more gunk out now that with the original pump probably double. But I have 6 fish biggest one is a 3-4" so boiload is Small

[jason604]

Any1 happens to know what pump works great with this skimmer other than the bubble blaster and he siccce pak1000?

[jason604]

Would the jebao 4000 work with vertex in-180? Would the Venturi on my stock pump fit on the jebao as wel and how would modding it work?
Here's the http://m.fish-street.com/jebaojecod_...tring=Jebao+dc

Need help as my skimmer is litterly doing nth

[Aquattro]

Maybe just buy the pump you've been told works?

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Maybe just buy the pump you've been told works?

Lol very good advice ima order proven pump now