OOPs watch skimmer when using epoxy
 

:redface:Okay so im sure we all know this but I thought Id share a major blunder with you so that others who are not a stupid as me can at least have a chuckle.

Decided I was tired of watching my sps's fall over after a nite of snail and crab action so I set out to fix them to the live rock using underwater expoxy> I was the going to do my bi weekly chores and clean up the filter room, clean out the skimmate etc . after my glue job was finished

So as you know when you use the epoxy, the skimmer goes nuts for a while and produces loads of skimmate for a few hours . Well you guessed it , as soon as I was done my epoxy job I go into the filter room only to see the entire volume of this weeks skimmate over flow into the sump:twised:
Needless to say I did a quick 20 % water change and will do another tomorrow .... NOTE TO SELF .. CHANGE OUT THE SKIMMATE BEFORE YOU USE EPOXY :cry:

Oops! Good to know!

Hmm, I've never had that happen.

Me neither

I've had that happen when using a lot of epoxy. At first I could not figure out why my skimmer was going nuts, but then after thinking about it I figured it out.

:smile:gee I thought it was just me ... thanks

its never happened to me either. what size water volume do you have. i would imagine with lower water volume there would be a bigger reaction

my display tank is over 125g and then around 20g or so of water in sump. When it affected my skimmer I was attaching some rocks and doing a little buildup for a frag. I guess once done slowly it would have been Ok. Normally I have not probs, but as you can see it can happen with a bigger tank.

Just curious, what epoxy? I just tried D-D Aquascape and it's made the skimmer go berserk. I've never had this happen before. But then, I've always used Holdfast in the past (this stuff). I only bought the D-D because it was the only epoxy the store that I went to to load up on epoxy, had...)