film on water surface

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Cheech

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I've had it for the longest time, and I have no idea how to get rid of it. I have an overflow, and I have quite a bit of water movement...

Do you know what it is, and how to possibly get rid of it?

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Ace, I moved your reply from that older thread .. Here it is:

Originally posted by Ace
Dude.. surface of your water looks NASTY! That is some serious DOCs you have going on there. May want to address that. Put that K3/K4 you have on your overflow on the side you took the picture from near the surface so you can push all that nasty surface scum over into your overflow.
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Do you think I should permenantly change the location of at least 1 ph, pushing the water into the overflow?

Also, what is that stuff, and is there any way to get rid of it?
 
wow. lol i just lift my overflow sponge up once a day and he water surface clears up in a couple seconds. at a time i was using a net and just skimming the surface with it kind of like a little "oilslick"
 
It is accumulated waste from your fish and food in the water. You have 2 powerheads on your overflow pushing stuff AWAY from the overflow. You need to push everything towards your overflow, not away. More surface aggitation will help break them up as well. That is the stuff a skimmer takes out of the water, but it has to be able to get to the skimmer to do that. ;)

Early morning for you with your Mod duties? LOL.
 
^^^ lolol... how many generated PMs have you recieved in the past 20 min?


That's too bad. I actually like the placemebt of my PHs where they are... I'll do what both of you suggested.


Conski, what's an overflow sponge?
 
Yup, it sure can if your lighting is just barely adequate to begin with. If you have MHs then it probably isn't causing an issue with the corals I see in the tank.
 
cheech u gotta chnage the flow in the tank. Its not moving the surface enough or your return flow rate isn't high enough to increase overflow. From the look of your overflow the waters barely over the teeth. Trying increasing return flow or you can make some of the teeth in the overflow larger to take in more surface water. JMHO
 
Thank you for the comments. . .

For starters, I'll definately try to manually filter out whatever I can using a filter sock, then I'll change the location of at least 1 of my powerheads. hoping this will help.


I'll keep you updated.
 
theres a sponge where my water goes into my sump in the back of the tank, it gets that stuff on the top off, sometimes it gets a little clogged up so i lift the sponge and the film cover immedialty drains, i have a wave on my tank and alot of surface agitiation due to my mp20 so i dont get "oilslicks" anymore

the net for me worked for a while but its gets annoying lol
 
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