Urgent Help Needed
Hi guys
So I have just setup a 7x2.5x2.5 tank which is about 1500litres including the sump, it's been up and running for 5 weeks now and everything has been doing well and looking healthy, until 4 days ago I notice my skimmer was not skimming anything out of the water at all, from day 1 it was skimming but was light brown in colour and not really that much at all, nothing was really landing in the collection cup it was more just up the neck and hitting the lid, the skimmer is a RLSS db12 with waveline dc10000II pump. The skimmer is sitting in 20cm of water as to meet the requirements of the manufacturer, there looks to be lots of bubbles in the body and up to the neck but no foam at all, no even clear stuff just a flat water surface. im also getting alot of microbubbles coming from the Skimmer outlet.
I have completely pulled down the skimmer and checked everything, everything seems to be fine and working,
The only things ive added to the tank is a small dose of ViVid, and i put 1.5l of Phosguard in a bag and placed it in the sump which i removed after about 30 seconds because it mirked the sump water and made it white.
So im hoping someone here can help me out with any suggestions or fixes, anything at all would be greatly appreciated.
in the pictures you will see when the skimmer was working to some degree, then pictures of what its doing now, theres also a picture of the Vivid i dosed.
Setup consists of:
Hardware -
1 Mp60 Wavemaker
1 Tunze 6105 Wavemaker
Haelia 1.0hp Chiller
Tunze 11000ph Return Pump
Jaeger 300w Heater
4x Aqua Illumination Leds
Around 100kg of live rock
Livestock -
2 small bubbles
1 medium bubble
1 small torch
1 small frogspawn
3 small hammer
1 small elegance
1 medium leather
2 clarki clowns - 3 inches
Foxface - 5 Inches
Long nose butterfly - 4 inches
Blue tang - 3 inches
Sailfin tang - 4 inches
Blue throat trigger - 5 inches
So I have just setup a 7x2.5x2.5 tank which is about 1500litres including the sump, it's been up and running for 5 weeks now and everything has been doing well and looking healthy, until 4 days ago I notice my skimmer was not skimming anything out of the water at all, from day 1 it was skimming but was light brown in colour and not really that much at all, nothing was really landing in the collection cup it was more just up the neck and hitting the lid, the skimmer is a RLSS db12 with waveline dc10000II pump. The skimmer is sitting in 20cm of water as to meet the requirements of the manufacturer, there looks to be lots of bubbles in the body and up to the neck but no foam at all, no even clear stuff just a flat water surface. im also getting alot of microbubbles coming from the Skimmer outlet.
I have completely pulled down the skimmer and checked everything, everything seems to be fine and working,
The only things ive added to the tank is a small dose of ViVid, and i put 1.5l of Phosguard in a bag and placed it in the sump which i removed after about 30 seconds because it mirked the sump water and made it white.
So im hoping someone here can help me out with any suggestions or fixes, anything at all would be greatly appreciated.
in the pictures you will see when the skimmer was working to some degree, then pictures of what its doing now, theres also a picture of the Vivid i dosed.
Setup consists of:
Hardware -
1 Mp60 Wavemaker
1 Tunze 6105 Wavemaker
Haelia 1.0hp Chiller
Tunze 11000ph Return Pump
Jaeger 300w Heater
4x Aqua Illumination Leds
Around 100kg of live rock
Livestock -
2 small bubbles
1 medium bubble
1 small torch
1 small frogspawn
3 small hammer
1 small elegance
1 medium leather
2 clarki clowns - 3 inches
Foxface - 5 Inches
Long nose butterfly - 4 inches
Blue tang - 3 inches
Sailfin tang - 4 inches
Blue throat trigger - 5 inches
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