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I've had this thing running in my tank for over a month now, since I got my live rock and sand from TBS. So it started with a decent amount of nutrients in the tank right away. It did take a good week or so to settle down and I thought it was working ok once it started covering the neck in brown skim and even started producing some skimmate in the cup. But since then I've maybe had to empty the cup once. For weeks now it either decides it's going to go crazy and overflow the cup and I have to raise the skimmer and open it up to Max to get it to stop. Or it does absolutely nothing, even set to Min. I went away for a week and came back to not a single drop of skim in the cup.
Water level in sump is 9.25". I've tried raising it 2.25" and 1". Neither seem to help. When it's not skimming at all it's easier to get the bubbles up in the neck at the higher water height.
RIght now it's raised 1" and set to between Min and 1.
And yes, the clear cover over the pump is installed correctly, with the solid area right over the pump output.
Tank is 60g
I have full clean up crew, all live rock and sand from TBS, 4 fish.
Feeding 3x per time, a mix of frozen and flake.
Nitrates are currently 11.4 ppm per hanna tester.
So the tank does have nutrients to skim!
It can't still be breaking in, is it? Is this skimmer too big for my tank?
Right now I'm very disappointed compared to my past LifeReef skimmers which just worked.
Water level in sump is 9.25". I've tried raising it 2.25" and 1". Neither seem to help. When it's not skimming at all it's easier to get the bubbles up in the neck at the higher water height.
RIght now it's raised 1" and set to between Min and 1.
And yes, the clear cover over the pump is installed correctly, with the solid area right over the pump output.
Tank is 60g
I have full clean up crew, all live rock and sand from TBS, 4 fish.
Feeding 3x per time, a mix of frozen and flake.
Nitrates are currently 11.4 ppm per hanna tester.
So the tank does have nutrients to skim!
It can't still be breaking in, is it? Is this skimmer too big for my tank?
Right now I'm very disappointed compared to my past LifeReef skimmers which just worked.