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connah  Hobbyist Posts: 126 Kudos: 168 Votes: 4 Registered: 09-Nov-2003   | I just did a water change on my tank, about 80L of 420L, I mixed the salt water day and a half ago. I changed the water this moring and when I turned my skimmer on it make heaps of wet foam, like I have to empty the cup every 45 mins at this rate the tank will be empty soon the cup holds about 1/2 a litre. What can I do? I want to go out and I dont want my room filling up with foam and an empty tank. If I leave the skimmer off for a day and start it up tomorrow will that help or make it worse? The skimmer is an aquamedic turbofloater 1000SL if that helps Thanks Last edited by connah at 25-Feb-2005 19:38 |
 Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40 |     |
dthurs       Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 4340 Kudos: 4170 Votes: 529 Registered: 18-Feb-2003  | I would say turn it off and let the tank settle for a while. Try again in a day and see if that's better. Dan Dan |
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| connah Hobbyist Posts: 126 Kudos: 168 Votes: 4 Registered: 09-Nov-2003 | thanks, hopfully tomorrow it will be ok. |
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| Week End Big Fish Posts: 414 Kudos: 436 Votes: 1 Registered: 16-May-2004 | how about mess aaround with the intake flow rate? mine do the same thing if I let too much water to get in with not having enough air. |
| Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40 | |
DarkRealm Overlord    Moderator metal-R-us Posts: 5962 Kudos: 2166 Registered: 23-Sep-2002  | Turbo flotors do that from my experience. Id go ahead and unplug it until you can be there to watch it. Im not saying that it will overflow, because I have never had one to it to me......but Im also not going to tell you that it wont.  |
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| connah Hobbyist Posts: 126 Kudos: 168 Votes: 4 Registered: 09-Nov-2003 | I left for the day, this morning when I plugged it in it worked fine, must be normal for this skimmer. I tried the flow taps fully open How I normally have it and fully close which caused the cup to fill with water quicker, I guess this is because the taps control the water comming out of the skimmer not into it. Thanks for the help guys  |
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