how the beep beep beep do i get rid of an oil slick at top of tank

[Milad]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

Your not getting real Sea Water from the Gulf of Mexico, are you??

thats why it was so damn cheap!! dammit

[Milad]

just realized there is foam in the overflow, is that normal? or is something up.

[Rogue951]

makes me think you have a huge excess of proteins. or your skimmer really isn't doing it.
esp if foam is building up in the overflow.
I notice when I feed silversides It gets messy but it's quickly taken down the overflow into the skimmer. never seen again.

[Zoaelite]

What sort of skimmer are you running on the tank Milad and is there any irregular food going into the tank? I'm almost positive your problem stems from the peninsula set up, I had the same thing happen on my 170g.

Situating all your power-heads on one wall in the tank causes a great deal of water to be sucked to those locations, if your powerheads are lower in the tank this in turn causes a lack of flow on the surface. If you increase your return pump and get randomized side to side flow this will fix the problem.

My 2 MP40W's run on anti-sync long pulse mode creating flow on one side of the tank for about 25 seconds and then the flow switches to the other side, this clears the surface very well.

[Milad]

im running euroreef 250 clone

the food is on two feeders at different sides of the tank feeding a little pellets 4 times a day.

my return and my power heads are all on one side of the tank. You think I should run the return on the other side of the tank?

[Milad]

woah just tested my water (this is after today's water change)
20ppm nitrates

wtf, my skimmer isnt pulling crap out of the water right now even running wet, its clear

[banditpowdercoat]

Waterchange time!!!!

[Milad]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

Waterchange time!!!!

got some water already mixing!

but what the hell could be causing it. could overdosing ZEOBak be the problem?

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by Milad

got some water already mixing!

but what the hell could be causing it. could overdosing ZEOBak be the problem?

Skimmer intake could be blocked, I would give it a good clean. I think if you can put your tunzee's on a wave maker you will fix the problem, 30 seconds on 30 seconds off alternating.

[Milad]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Skimmer intake could be blocked, I would give it a good clean. I think if you can put your tunzee's on a wave maker you will fix the problem, 30 seconds on 30 seconds off alternating.

nope not blocked

My wave maker is on, my tunzes are on apex profile which is alternating by ramping up and ramping down every 5min (one goes up, one goes down).