Okay,where to begin...
I'll give you guys the little story of the process that went by until now. I have a Bubble Magus C3.5 Protein Skimmer and I can't get it to stay consistent.
At first, my water height was to high, so I had to raise the skimmer about an inch up with some PVC under. But tweaking it was hard since the tank was new with fish, meaning no bioload. Now with time I was able to adjust it to number 3 on the dial and get a bubble height about 1" under the top like this picture below, but here's the issue. I leave it at the number 3 with a perfect height which dry skim, but I don't get anything in a week although the height of the bubbles is perfect... So I turn the dial SO SO SO slighty and now my cup fills up under 3 days with a clear/tan and a bit of detritus...
The height I set it:
I can't get a perfect dark skim who fills up about 1/4 of the cup like most of you guys.
THE OTHER ISSUE LOL
Sometimes, when I turn off the skimmer and turn off my return pump to show my tank to my friends without flow. I sometimes forget to turn the skimmer back and I go to sleep and when I turn it back on. BOOM its OVERFLOWING like crazy, but nothing changed, no food, no water height change, no adjustment... I had to turn it back down to 4.
Current skim, but it will only last about a couple of hours until the bubble go all the way backdown.
Is all of this normal ? Do I lack bioload, is my skimmer oversized for my 45G tank with 5 fish, inverts and corals...
I'll give you guys the little story of the process that went by until now. I have a Bubble Magus C3.5 Protein Skimmer and I can't get it to stay consistent.
At first, my water height was to high, so I had to raise the skimmer about an inch up with some PVC under. But tweaking it was hard since the tank was new with fish, meaning no bioload. Now with time I was able to adjust it to number 3 on the dial and get a bubble height about 1" under the top like this picture below, but here's the issue. I leave it at the number 3 with a perfect height which dry skim, but I don't get anything in a week although the height of the bubbles is perfect... So I turn the dial SO SO SO slighty and now my cup fills up under 3 days with a clear/tan and a bit of detritus...
The height I set it:
I can't get a perfect dark skim who fills up about 1/4 of the cup like most of you guys.
THE OTHER ISSUE LOL
Sometimes, when I turn off the skimmer and turn off my return pump to show my tank to my friends without flow. I sometimes forget to turn the skimmer back and I go to sleep and when I turn it back on. BOOM its OVERFLOWING like crazy, but nothing changed, no food, no water height change, no adjustment... I had to turn it back down to 4.
Current skim, but it will only last about a couple of hours until the bubble go all the way backdown.
Is all of this normal ? Do I lack bioload, is my skimmer oversized for my 45G tank with 5 fish, inverts and corals...