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Originally Posted by Delphinus
I think it will get better as it settles in but you might want to think about slowing the feed pump maybe.
Can you snap a picture of the pumps? I'd like to see how they sit on the skimmer itself, maybe I can change how I have mine and get some more improvement that way.
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It's not a recirlution skimmer so there are no feed pumps other than the actual pumps I did the mod to. I've been running one pump at a time for 8 hours each to try and help break them in. With only one pump turned on it sure generates a lot of foam at the top after a while but because there's only one pump on it's not enough to push the foam up the neck so it can overflow in to the collection cup. As soon as I turn the second pump on the water level goes right up to the top of the neck again and overflows wet, large bubbles in to the collection cup filling it up pretty quick. The bubbles overflowing are large because there isn't enough height to form a foam. I've also noticed quite a increase in turbulence in the skimmer including the neck and not all the bubbles are really fine. There are some bubbles the size of a tic tac hovering around in the neck too. I've also adjusted my auto-topoff so the water level in the sump drops which has always lowered the water level in the skimmer too. I'll see if that helps.
The pumps sit horizontally just like in this picture:
http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s..._ID=ps-errs250