Skimmer help

[Tropical Reef Fish Store]

its not the water level if it was it will fill up with water not foam.
if your skimmer is lifting the lid like the one in that pic you posted it is because the water is set to low in the skimmer and the foam is super dry and not much water in it to help it pop. if you look at the pic you can see dirt way down in the neck of the skimmer meaning the water is real low in it, if it was higher up it would be clean.
close the exit pipe to brg the water in the skimmer (make wetter foam) and it will pop and go in the cup vs lifting it.

 

[civicdemon]

ok ill try all of the above one step at a time i guess lol.

 

[civicdemon]

Ok so now in 8 inches of water and set to wet the skim is still kinda the same with bubbles filling cup. Haven't poopt.

 

[civicdemon]

 

[mr_bigl]

I don't see anything g wrong with that as long as it stays in the cuo

 

[civicdemon]

Yeah but usually after it fills more they lift the lid and start coming out.

 

[robert_ellis]

Little more wet... I have my nac9 adjusted so the little bubbles that won't make it to the cup are just above the the bottom of the cup.

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[Confuse]

If your water is really dirty, you'll have a lot of excess bubbles. I had a similar problem when I stopped running my skimmer for two weeks because I was cleaning it. When. I started it back up, it overflowed with bubbles even though I lowered the water level. It'll typically stabilize on its own.

So question is....how dirty is your water? There could be excess proteins in your water that are causing the skimmer to overflow.

 

[civicdemon]

Not dirty at all last test was under 2ppm on red sea nitrates.