Fine bubbles coming out of the skimmer unit into the tank on my Orca TL450 fish tank.?

Question

Can anybody help me with this problem. M tank has been set up for 4 weeks now. I have got corals and living rock in the tank at the moment. Water conditions are fine - but i cant stop these fine bubbles coming out of the skimmer and clouding the tank. I dont want to put any fish into the tank until the bubbles have gone. Can anybody help me. Graham

Answer 1

Does your skimmer not come with a bubble defuser???
I was just checking out some other forums and it looks like everyone has the same problem and no one has a cure for it.
You can TRY to make a defuser to fit over the outlet on the skimmer (Large Pill Bottle with holes drilled in the bottom stuffed with foam or filter floss).
Hope this helps?????????

Answer 2

The bubbles won't harm the fish or corals. It just doesn't look as pretty. The fine bubbles mean you have the water flow through the skimmer set too high. OR, you haven't broker in the skimmer yet. It takes awhile. Mine took 3 weeks. Don't worry about it. You're suppossed to turn the skimmer all the way up at first, then gradually turn it down (a tine bit once an hour), until you see an air bubble form, then turn it back the way it was just before the air bubble. Once the skimmer "breaks in" you'll be fine.

Answer 3

I haven't used a tank of your type, but does it have a way to regulate the water flow through the skimmer? I had a different model of skimmer that would produce the bubbles as you describe, but only when the water flow was strong enought to prevent the bubbles from rising directly beneath the collection chamber (they were being carried out to the overflow).

If you have no way of controlling water flow, a diffuser would be the way to go.

Answer 4

Ummm no, what style of question is this??? Lol... No you are able to not pour bubbles in a fish tank. it will kill them! they might purely stand particular chemical compounds of their water because it particularly is, to no longer point out the outstanding pH levels. I dont think of it would be this style of great theory :c)