Top Off Water

[slakker]

reducing the bubble height should help with the wet/dry skimming. decreasing air will actually increase height, increasing outflow will decrease height (I think I got that right)

Also, if your skimmer is sitting right all the way in the water, ie; the collector cup's base is in the water... the raising and lowering of the skimmer relative to the water line will also affect the height...

But let me preface to say that I'm no skimmer expert and it did take me 2 weeks just to get mine working well...

[Oscar]

Originally Posted by slakker

But let me preface to say that I'm no skimmer expert and it did take me 2 weeks just to get mine working well...

Thanks, I am going to experiment some more this weekend.

[Oscar]

Between Wednesday and Saturday I topped off with saltwater instead of freshwater. Then today I did a 10% water change with a salt mix of 40% saliniity. Now I am back in the range I wanted to be.

I pulled the skimmer out, did some fidgeting, reinstalled it now it is producing a small amount of very dark skimmate. Just what I wanted to see but I have no idea what I did.

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[mseepman]

Hey, no need to wonder why as long as it works.