remora protein skimmer

Laura and Jim will be hosting the May meeting this Saturday the 12th and it will be the usual of food, drinks, raffle and fun.
 
Doors will be open at 6:00 pm for social talk and the meeting will start at 7:00.  Parking gets a little tight and the city says you can't park on 4th but there is a parking lot a block away.   Meeting is usually held in the backyard so feel free to bring your favorite lawn chair, weather permitting of course.

If you need address/directions, contact a club member.

Best if you park at Mini Mall (where the spaghetti establishment use to be)
 
You will get to see his new frag tank set up in the making.
 
Hope to see you there!

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my remora protein skimmer is producing a exremely light colored foam, and the collection cup fills up in like 3 hours with almost clear water. I have raised the collection cup up as far as it will go, but this dose not solve the problem.

[The Apprentice]

Btrue this is the remora running a very wet skimmate It can be slowed down to pull the darker skimmate by lifting your collection cup. Thats why they are shipped with a o-ring when brand new. and this will slow it down and only pull out your heavier Protiens.
 I personally like seeing this exremely light colored foam as your skimmer is more efficiant at this point thats how I like to run my Aqua c skimmers...
HTH...Jeff

my remora protein skimmer is producing a exremely light colored foam, and the collection cup fills up in like 3 hours with almost clear water. I have raised the collection cup up as far as it will go, but this dose not solve the problem.

[Robert M.]

Are you using a MJ1200 pump? Is the skimmer new for your tank?

[btrue]

i had the protein skimmer for 4 or 5 months. its using the maxi-jet 1200 powerhead. the collection cup cant go up any more and it is producing extremely light colored foam.

[The Apprentice]

Is this still filling every 3-4 hours Btrue? Do you still have a O-ring that goes around your collection cup?

i had the protein skimmer for 4 or 5 months. its using the maxi-jet 1200 powerhead. the collection cup cant go up any more and it is producing extremely light colored foam.

[Rico]

Brian,

You might want to check the air line that feeds air to the pump. It may be partially plugged and causing the skimmer to run very wet.

Rick

[Nate C.]

The remora doesn't have an air line.  Try using the brush to clean the nozzle.  Make sure it's sitting level too.  I have a Pro I'm not using.  If yours keeps having problems, let me know, we can throw mine on and see if it works better.  If so, you know you have a problem with yours.  If it does the same thing, you know it has to be something with the pump.

[btrue]

Steve from AquaC e-mailed me:

It sounds like the skimmer may be reacting to something in the water, causing a "soapy" effect.  Products such as water conditioners that "replace slime coating" (Stress Coat, Prime, Novaqua, Aqua Safe, etc.), antibiotic, red slime and parasite treatments, SeaChem calcium products, trace element blocks, and 2-part epoxy can have this effect.

I use prime, reef trace, reef carbonate, and reef complete. All of these are made by Seachem

[Nate C.]

Have you changed or added any of these recently?  Does that coincide with when you started having the high production with your skimmer?  If so, I'd agree with that.  If not, I'm not sure if that'd be the cause...hard to imagine it just starting to produce like crazy with nothing changing in your system.

[oodmargi]

I believe what the Remora guy said because I also use some of the SeaChem calcium products and my skimmer goes crazy also (different kind of skimmer though) And I noticed it instantly when I started to use the calcium products.

[The Apprentice]

It been a few days Brian is the skimmer still running real wet since you discovered the side issues with the Seachem products ? I have also seen this when I have used Melifix treatments. I just use the o-ring and roll it down to reduce scimate intake till I am redy to remove the melifix from the system.

[btrue]

i stopped using the prime and i use very small doses of reef complete and the protien skimmer is producing dark foam now. 

[The Apprentice]

Very good I have been a very big Fan of these skimmers and they do preform very well. Its good to read its all worked out...Jeff

i stopped using the prime and i use very small doses of reef complete and the protien skimmer is producing dark foam now.