Help!!! Skimmer not skimming

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My skimmer (octo regal 150S) suddenly stopped skimming and lots of micro air bubbles appeared every where in the tank and sump, I was patient for around 3 weeks by doing all the required skimmer adjustments with no progress, so I decided to replace it by deltec 1000i and after around 10 days it started skimming for around 4 hours and then stopped so I send back to the shop and he kept it running for one day and was perfectly working there. Once I took it back to my sump it didn’t work. I stopped dosing NOPOX and after one day it skimmed for 5 or 6 hours and till date for more than a month it is not skimming.
please help
 
First question
Does it make bubbles?
Second question
How clean is your tank?
 
Tank need waste in order to produce skim mate if there is nothing in the tank for the skimmer to take out the bubbles will just collapse and won’t create a foam head
 
The tank is one year old and the reef octopus wa working fine till it suddenly stopped 2 months ago and I tbought its a skimmer or pump issue so I replaced it by the Deltec and its now running for more than a month.
I watched BRS video and tried to adjust the air but all what I got is bubbles with no foam, no dirt comming in the cup
 

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