Ok I just got my skimmer fixed and its throwing tons of microbubbles my hammer coral and pulsing xenia are right close to it will this hurt any of my corals ? Also have a pair of clown fish Ps I turned it off the moment I seen all of those micro bubbles
Microbubbles
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No, there should be no lasting damage.
What skimmer type is it?
Dial the air way down until the skimmer breaks in. If that does not work there are other interventions. Need to know skimmer type though.
What skimmer type is it?
Dial the air way down until the skimmer breaks in. If that does not work there are other interventions. Need to know skimmer type though.
agreed no harm
my whole reef is ran by only one airstone and it bubbles right across an old hammer. no probs, or if there are ones, they are tolerable.
my whole reef is ran by only one airstone and it bubbles right across an old hammer. no probs, or if there are ones, they are tolerable.
nope, they have the reserves to slime indefinitely. for many its a feeding technique, a shedding response, a bioregulator, slime means no harm on the immediate. many changes can be responded to via slimez
You need a week or so to let the skimmer build up some biofilm. I put my tunze 9002 into a bucket of old water change water and let it go a week. At first there was a cloud of micro bubbles and it filled the cup up with water quickly. Now it's behaving itself much better, so it's in the display tank. It still has some microbubbles, but nothing seems to mind.
I came across this thread while researching my micro bubble issue and saw you were using the same skimmer I have. My 9002 has been great for two months. It put out some micro bubbles when it was breaking in but it wasn't too bad and there were practically none after that. I mounted a few frags in my 20g AIO using super glue gel and reef putty yesterday and all of a sudden the skimmer started spitting out micro bubbles like crazy! You ever come across anything like this? My display is practically a white cloud.
dacianb
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Protein skimmers are sensitive to any chemicals in water. Even traces of oil on your hand when you touch something in tank may do a skimmer to go nuts.I came across this thread while researching my micro bubble issue and saw you were using the same skimmer I have. My 9002 has been great for two months. It put out some micro bubbles when it was breaking in but it wasn't too bad and there were practically none after that. I mounted a few frags in my 20g AIO using super glue gel and reef putty yesterday and all of a sudden the skimmer started spitting out micro bubbles like crazy! You ever come across anything like this? My display is practically a white cloud.
Some get those microbubbles out, some stop skimming at all for hours and others just start overflowing like crazy. I dont have any microbubble as the sump trap them all, but not skimming for hours or overflowing for days (yes, happend once as I washed the filter socks and the rinse was not as good as I expected and tiny traces of detergent went into my tank) happens.
Microbubbles are not threatening anything in your tank - imagine how many bubbles a wave creates in ocean when hit the reef edge
G8trBait16
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It happens to me as well. Every time I superglue a new frag or change a filter sock, my skimmer goes crazy. So I turn it off for an hour or so, to let everything settle down. But yes they are right Micro bubbles won't hurt anything, it just "looks" bad.I came across this thread while researching my micro bubble issue and saw you were using the same skimmer I have. My 9002 has been great for two months. It put out some micro bubbles when it was breaking in but it wasn't too bad and there were practically none after that. I mounted a few frags in my 20g AIO using super glue gel and reef putty yesterday and all of a sudden the skimmer started spitting out micro bubbles like crazy! You ever come across anything like this? My display is practically a white cloud.
