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Hey guys I have a protien skimmer AquaC I am having lotts of tiny bubbles that are getting thrown back into the tank.
My tank is a 29 gallon with a wet/dry. The Skimmer is in the wetdry and I have drilled a hole threw the side of the wet/dry to make the outtake from the skimmer fall back over the bioballs. I have placed a sponge under thr outtake as well. Any help would be great
 
swampfox25 said:
Hey guys I have a protien skimmer AquaC I am having lotts of tiny bubbles that are getting thrown back into the tank.
My tank is a 29 gallon with a wet/dry. The Skimmer is in the wetdry and I have drilled a hole threw the side of the wet/dry to make the outtake from the skimmer fall back over the bioballs. I have placed a sponge under thr outtake as well. Any help would be great
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sorta defeats the purpose no?
 
well i was told to try that. It actually helped alittle. The skimmer's outtake would normally fall right next to the intake for the powerhead to take the water back into the tank. That was creating many many bubbles because the bubbles were getting broken into even smaller ones. Now there is a tube that takes the water from the outtake and spills back over the bioballs and it seems to give the bubbles time to disapate. Any ideas??
 
Not sure if running the output of the skimmer through a wet/dry defeats the purpose, because the two filters do different things. Heck, CPR even puts a "bio-bale" in the output of its non-reef bakpak skimmer.

The skimmer may just need to break in. Sometimes it takes a few weeks for them to stop putting out fizz.
 
Skimmer has been there for at leas 8 months. I just have delt with it. But I am trying to get it to really clear up and am getting no where. I noticed you said that the (NON-Reef) skimmer has built in bioballs. Is there a difference ? I have a reef tank. My bioballs have been there since the start of the tank. I have had corals in there for at least a year now.
 
Some would argue that a wet/dry is neither necessary nor desirable in a reef. The oxidation of ammonia to nitrate should be happening in the live rock/sandbed, so it shouldn't be necessary. Although I am still not completely convinced of the science behind it, the lore is that the conversion of NH3 to NO3 on the bioballs reduces the efficacy of the LR/LS in converting NO3 to N2 or NO, which then offgases from the tank.
 
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