CO2 scrubber troubles

[Sophie"s mom]

Evening everyone, so after much crap, I got my skimmer hooked up to a small Ice Cap CO2 scrubber today, and that did not go goood at all. I don’t know if I have too much media in the scrubber or what, but the skimmer did not function properly at all with the scrubber hooked up. It only produced minimal bubbles, and did not even really kick into gear. So for now I disconnected the scrubber and went back to just skimmer until I get this figured out. Any and all help would be awesome, and much appreciated.

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Evening everyone, so after much crap, I got my skimmer hooked up to a small Ice Cap CO2 scrubber today, and that did not go goood at all. I don’t know if I have too much media in the scrubber or what, but the skimmer did not function properly at all with the scrubber hooked up. It only produced minimal bubbles, and did not even really kick into gear. So for now I disconnected the scrubber and went back to just skimmer until I get this figured out. Any and all help would be awesome, and much appreciated.

This caused the skimmer, which is a Reef Octo HOB 2000 to run with what seemed maybe a quarter of its normal power. I could really use some help with this.

 

[RedReefer]

Hmmm. Maybe the scrubber is restricting the skimmer air flow too much. 1st guess Either the scrubber is clogged somehow. 2nd guess the HOB skimmer is too small to run the co2 scrubber. How much water did you put in the scrubber?

 

[TokenReefer]

Do you feel anything (suction) when you put your finger on the scrubber input port? Shoild feel something and hear it as well. There's an in and an out port. Make sure you have the skimmer on the out port

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Hmmm. Maybe the scrubber is restricting the skimmer air flow too much. 1st guess Either the scrubber is clogged somehow. 2nd guess the HOB skimmer is too small to run the co2 scrubber. How much water did you put in the scrubber?

It has maybe a 1/4 “ in the bottom

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Do you feel anything (suction) when you put your finger on the scrubber input port? Shoild feel something and hear it as well. There's an in and an out port. Make sure you have the skimmer on the out port

The line coming from the skimmer pump goes to the line in the middle of the scrubber

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Hmmm. Maybe the scrubber is restricting the skimmer air flow too much. 1st guess Either the scrubber is clogged somehow. 2nd guess the HOB skimmer is too small to run the co2 scrubber. How much water did you put in the scrubber?

So I solved my own skimmer/ scrubber issue. Apparently I had too much water in the CO2 scrubber. I only had about 1/4” in there, but it was apparently too much. So all is good now