I have a reef octopus 110int on my 75g system (93g total vollume)
As expected, after using Dr. Tim's first defense, and having turned off the skimmer for 8 hours, when turning it on it was still going crazy. I reduced airflow using 2 bleeder valves cutting it down by about 90% to stop overflow but let it continue operating. A few days went by and I was able to increase the airflow back to 50% but it was still making very large bubbles like boiling water.
I figured if it was making these bubble, that it must be forcing something out, so i decided to adjust it to the bottom of the collection cup fitting and let it run.
The next morning it had stopped, and the foam looked like foam again, so i put the air intake back into its normal configuration with the silencer and full port open. The collection cup was nearly filled with very cloudy blue water.
My hypothesis is that it is infact pulling the chemicals out of the water, but i have not come accrossed this ability in searching the internet.
I thought about posting this for a week, and finally decided to after a mistake ladt night.
I did not wash my hands enough after styling with a medium hold beewax cream, and i reached in toove my chaeto, realizing before i touched it i still had this "natural" hair product on my hand to some degree. 3 hours later i was getting the boiling water bubbles again so i made the same skimmer adjustment.
Again, this morning, cloudy nearly full collection cup, back to normal foam.
The blue color mat hed the dr tims, this one was slightly white like the hair products.
TLDR: anyone else whitness their skimmer removing chemicals that are known to cause skimmer issues when adjusting for it?
As expected, after using Dr. Tim's first defense, and having turned off the skimmer for 8 hours, when turning it on it was still going crazy. I reduced airflow using 2 bleeder valves cutting it down by about 90% to stop overflow but let it continue operating. A few days went by and I was able to increase the airflow back to 50% but it was still making very large bubbles like boiling water.
I figured if it was making these bubble, that it must be forcing something out, so i decided to adjust it to the bottom of the collection cup fitting and let it run.
The next morning it had stopped, and the foam looked like foam again, so i put the air intake back into its normal configuration with the silencer and full port open. The collection cup was nearly filled with very cloudy blue water.
My hypothesis is that it is infact pulling the chemicals out of the water, but i have not come accrossed this ability in searching the internet.
I thought about posting this for a week, and finally decided to after a mistake ladt night.
I did not wash my hands enough after styling with a medium hold beewax cream, and i reached in toove my chaeto, realizing before i touched it i still had this "natural" hair product on my hand to some degree. 3 hours later i was getting the boiling water bubbles again so i made the same skimmer adjustment.
Again, this morning, cloudy nearly full collection cup, back to normal foam.
The blue color mat hed the dr tims, this one was slightly white like the hair products.
TLDR: anyone else whitness their skimmer removing chemicals that are known to cause skimmer issues when adjusting for it?
