Hello
I’ve been having trouble getting my skimmer to work properly for the last couple of months. I’m frustrated with it and hoping for some advice.
it’s a Aquatop Xyclone Protein Skimmer that came with my tank set up ( Aquatop Reciefe 48gallon DT, 14 gal sump )
We upgraded to this set up 1.5 years ago. We used a cyclone sump before that didn’t work well. At the time our bio load was really low. Now it’s quite high and the sump worked well for the first 6-7 months. Not sure exactly when but it stopped working and hasn’t worked right since.
I haven’t pulled it out this week and taken it apart again but I did a deep clean about a month or two ago and hoped that would fix it.
My best guess is that there’s something wrong with how it’s sending bubbles or flow into the chamber.
I’m getting a very light amount of slime in the chamber, so it’s not - not working at all. But it doesn’t have any visual foaming while working and the water slowly circles in the chamber.
I’m thinking that either the air intake has an issue, or the pump isn’t working properly, or maybe the water level/height of the skimmer in the tank needs to be dialed in. Any help would be much appreciated, please give me ideas to try and I’ll report back what works. );
I can buy another skimmer but I’d really rather not
I’ve been having trouble getting my skimmer to work properly for the last couple of months. I’m frustrated with it and hoping for some advice.
it’s a Aquatop Xyclone Protein Skimmer that came with my tank set up ( Aquatop Reciefe 48gallon DT, 14 gal sump )
We upgraded to this set up 1.5 years ago. We used a cyclone sump before that didn’t work well. At the time our bio load was really low. Now it’s quite high and the sump worked well for the first 6-7 months. Not sure exactly when but it stopped working and hasn’t worked right since.
I haven’t pulled it out this week and taken it apart again but I did a deep clean about a month or two ago and hoped that would fix it.
My best guess is that there’s something wrong with how it’s sending bubbles or flow into the chamber.
I’m getting a very light amount of slime in the chamber, so it’s not - not working at all. But it doesn’t have any visual foaming while working and the water slowly circles in the chamber.
I’m thinking that either the air intake has an issue, or the pump isn’t working properly, or maybe the water level/height of the skimmer in the tank needs to be dialed in. Any help would be much appreciated, please give me ideas to try and I’ll report back what works. );
I can buy another skimmer but I’d really rather not