OOPs watch skimmer when using epoxy

gkersten · #1 11-19-2008, 04:31 AM

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

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

Keri · #2 11-19-2008, 04:38 AM

Oops! Good to know!

Aquattro · #3 11-19-2008, 05:13 AM

Hmm, I've never had that happen.

marie · #4 11-19-2008, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Aquattro

Hmm, I've never had that happen.

Me neither

Trigger Man · #5 11-19-2008, 05:22 AM

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.

gkersten · #6 11-19-2008, 05:40 AM

gee I thought it was just me ... thanks

EmilyB · #7 11-19-2008, 05:44 AM

niloc16 · #8 11-19-2008, 06:05 AM

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

Trigger Man · #9 11-19-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by niloc16

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.

Delphinus · #10 11-23-2008, 07:08 AM

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...)