bubbles in my red sea max

[Fishguy52]

Just wondering if anyone has a red sea max or anyother kind of tank) and if they get little bubbles all the time, i have tried all the tricks i can think of( skimmer, powerheads, pumps) i cant seem to remember how long setup bubbles last?

any help would be great its annoying!!!

thank you

[freezetyle]

I dont have any experience with the RSM so i am not sure what the back chambers look like. My guess in that they are coming from the skimmer.

After i added my skimmer to my biocube i was getting them for a bit. The problem got fixed my adding a sponge(be sure to clean it regularly) near the outtake to help slow the movement allowing them to reach the surface in the back compartment and not the display.

[viperfish]

I had a Red Sea Max. I went through the same thing and you'll find pretty much every RSM owner has the same problem. Seems to go away when the skimmer is broken in. I assume yours is new.

[dankent]

Yea have the same thing ... even changed to a tunze 9002 skimmer .. didnt make much difference .. in fact its probably worse then what i had with the RS skimmer. I think it all has to do with flow and water level ... you notice the 130 has the return powerheads up high .... I have a biocube that puts the return pump in the bottom of the chamber and never have any microbubbles. I get bubbles with or without my skimmer on. Its not a whiteout ..... but its enough to anoy me. My next thing to try before i sell it ... is a sump in the cabinet and run everthing (skimmer, reactors) in there. and see that works.

[ElGuappo]

i had the same problem with mine. then my skimmer pump crapped out and the problem stopped.

yes the higher the water level the less bubbles. check for clogs in your returns intakes aswell. if this setup is new you are prbably using the media bag under the returns? get rid of it and put some LR rubble in there. first of all hte bag just fills with debris. secondly its always got air in as its near impossible to remove all the air when inserting it. when bubbles from your skimmer make it thru the baffles the bag then traps them and releases them into your return.

[ponokareefer]

I've got the same issue. Initially, it was worse until the skimmer got worked in, but it has never quit. That is one of the reasons I went with a peacock mantis shrimp in there, rather than risk seahorses with the bubbles.