Microbubbles in AquaC Remora

DiverDude · #1 03-21-2010, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by zum14

...How often do you have to clean the sock? (sorry to go off topic and hijack a bit)

No problem at all. The thread is on curing microbubbles in this thing -and that's what were talking about.

#2 03-21-2010, 05:38 AM

you could try getting some of theat algae crubbing pad that you can cut mak it fit acrss the width of the inside of the return and pushit below the sirface of the water about 1 inch you do not want it to go all the way to the back of the skimmer otherwise it will rais the water level in the skimmer and will not skimm very well. I don't have a problem with my kids but it has been running for a few weeks now.

Bill

Jessie55 · #3 03-21-2010, 05:48 AM

I get about 3 to 4 days out of a sock i have a bunch of them and i just put them in the washer when i run out. One downside though is be careful and change that sock as soon as you notice its starting to clog. it will clog over a period of 24 hrs and you will notice as the water rises higher within the sock. I forgot one night and when i came home from work the next day the entire water content in my sump was drained so that being said never leave a sock on it if you go on vacation. Otherwise though it works like a charm plus its extra filtration how can you go wrong.

zum14 · #4 03-21-2010, 04:14 PM

awsome thanks, im going to giver a go and see what happends. The next tank there is no way my wife will stop me from having a sump. Just too convienent.

#5 03-21-2010, 05:39 PM

you can still do it just on a smaller scale fine a 20g tank and you can use the romera in it.just have to make sure the out flow runs down a piece of glass till you get a different skimmer. You could try and sneak it in or just advise her that it would clean up the tank and make it look so much better and people could enjoy it more, or some thing along those lines. My wife new something was up when I made my tank stand about 2 feet longer and 6 inches wider than we needed it for the original tank. I said just in case there is an up grade I don't want to be building another stand and wasting all this good lumber and expensive laminated pine boards that I used for the top.

Bill

Nebthet · #6 03-21-2010, 07:56 PM

I have also found with it to eliminate the microbubbles, there is a sweet spot on the skimmer cup position with the O-ring. If you have it too high you will get lots of microbubbles, but just a little lower and you are fine. Too low and you get too much foam.

I myself am still getting microbubbles with mine, but not as bad as it was when first setting it up and letting it break in and the fish and corals don't seem to mind what so ever, then agan I have a K3 right below the outlet.

zum14 · #7 03-21-2010, 09:10 PM

The tanks tempered so no drilling, and i just dont trust overflows. I will mess with the oring hieght. I found my collection cup filled so fast when lower, i thought the lower the cup the more water is collected? I dunno maybe im wrong.

DiverDude · #8 03-22-2010, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebthet

I have also found with it to eliminate the microbubbles, there is a sweet spot on the skimmer cup position with the O-ring.

My bubble problem got worse the other day after I cleaned the collection cup. I didn't pay any real attention to the height as I don't get a heck of a lot of anythhing out of the skimmer yet. The odd burst of foam and then nothing for a day or 2. Of course, I've only just put fish in it a couple of weeks ago so the load was pretty much nil.

I'll try lowering the cup height a bit and see how that goes.

The prefilter box isn't terrible expensive (~$35) but I'd like to try and make my own, for the heck of it.