Is your skimmer trying to overflow today?

[melev]

All day long, I've been watching my skimmer closely. The water level rises in the neck so close to the top that it could overflow if I didn't dial it back. Every couple of hours, I've had to open the gate valve a little bit to lower the water level.

I'm wondering if the Super Moon event is causing it. [smilie=wink.gif]

 

[Hardtack]

Same problem down here in New Orleans with my skimmer. I have a Tunze 9010, and it never does this. I did just add an ATO from autotopoff.com. Who knows? Bizarre. Tons of pollen? Radioactive fallout?

 

[melev]

With my Euroreef CS 12-3, even a tiny turn of the handle has a decent impact on the water level, but yesterday I had to do so at least 5 times. Even now it is bubbling up very high in the neck.

I can't tell if it is a weather thing quite yet, although barometric pressure definitely affects skimmers.

 

[dradrenaline]

I have two 200 plus gallon tanks in my house and One skimmer freaked and the other did not. My DS 1 had to be emptied about 5-6 times yesterday. I did not know what was going on. Weird?

 

[Guest]

@66deuce wrote:

Red slime remover will over flow the skimmer. I read that it is an oxidizer


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[melev]

You need to change a lot more water -- or -- let the cup continue to overflow, dump it out often and replace the lost water with new (aged) saltwater. With my 280g reef, I had to dump and replace 14g worth of watery skimmate with replacement saltwater to avoid changing the salinity of my reef.

 

[Ocean Water]

Yes its due to super moon and its gravitational pull, i mean look at japan and the tsunami. Its the moon !!!!!