My skimmer is rabid!
- Thread starter Taxus812
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Ron Reefman
Lets Go Snorkeling!
Reef Squad
Excellence Award
Reef Tank 365
Article Contributor
Tampa Bay Reef Keepers
MAC of SW Florida
Probably. If I fed the tank with anything oily or with amino acids in it, I have to turn my skimmer off for an hour or it goes crazy.
OP
OP
Taxus812
Destroyer of corals
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2019
- Messages
- 716
- Reaction score
- 788
- Location
- Windsor
- What state or country do you live in
- Connecticut
Thanks,
Skimmers are new to me (another new reefer learning curve). I spent a better part of 30 min cleaning the walls, the collection cup, the back of the tank (4" between the wall and tank is really small) and fiddling with it. I eventually got it under control and its back to normal today (pumping out a bunch of gook). Honestly I am lucky this is new so it is funny to me. My wife laughs at me making err … comments about what is going on.
Skimmers are new to me (another new reefer learning curve). I spent a better part of 30 min cleaning the walls, the collection cup, the back of the tank (4" between the wall and tank is really small) and fiddling with it. I eventually got it under control and its back to normal today (pumping out a bunch of gook). Honestly I am lucky this is new so it is funny to me. My wife laughs at me making err … comments about what is going on.
Ron Reefman
Lets Go Snorkeling!
Reef Squad
Excellence Award
Reef Tank 365
Article Contributor
Tampa Bay Reef Keepers
MAC of SW Florida
Most of us have been is the same or very similar boats to you over the years. My wife goes for a walk around the neighborhood when I'm 'fixing' something that has gone wrong. It's not that I yell too much, but she hates to see me get frustrated! And this hobby can be... let me rephrase that... this hobby is very frustrating at times! 
Just keep asking questions. At 15 years in the hobby and I still have to ask questions. There's just too much to know and my brain isn't big enough!
Just keep asking questions. At 15 years in the hobby and I still have to ask questions. There's just too much to know and my brain isn't big enough!
OP
OP
Taxus812
Destroyer of corals
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2019
- Messages
- 716
- Reaction score
- 788
- Location
- Windsor
- What state or country do you live in
- Connecticut
Most of us have been is the same or very similar boats to you over the years. My wife goes for a walk around the neighborhood when I'm 'fixing' something that has gone wrong. It's not that I yell too much, but she hates to see me get frustrated! And this hobby can be... let me rephrase that... this hobby is very frustrating at times!
Just keep asking questions. At 15 years in the hobby and I still have to ask questions. There's just too much to know and my brain isn't big enough!
LOL funny you said that. I have skimmer Brain. Everything I'm learning about reefing is being dumped in my head. My brain must look like my skimmer did (and those are just the basics) . LOL
Ron Reefman
Lets Go Snorkeling!
Reef Squad
Excellence Award
Reef Tank 365
Article Contributor
Tampa Bay Reef Keepers
MAC of SW Florida
I think a lot of us fell the same way. There are times I go... oh I know that... ahhhhh... well, I used to know that. And then I have to go and look it up!
BTW, I just noticed you are in Windsor. I grew up just across the river in Detroit. My dad grew up in Stratford, Ontario and we had a tiny cottage on Lake Erie near Kingsville where I spent all my summers until I was 6.
