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Hello again everyone. I have A 65 gal salt water. Im new to this. I uave a coralife 65g skimmer. My problem im having is its pulling gook out but the gook builds on the sides of the tube running up the middle of the collection cup. It doesnt boil over into the collection cup just sticks to the sides of the area thats suppose to foam up and push it out. I assume an adjustment ofnsme sort will fix this butni cant find any answers so i thought id see if anyone here knows whats causing this. Ill try and post a pix of what i mean. Thanks!
 
Here we are. I scraped it all off today but its already building back up. What dobi adjust to get it to collect in the cup instead of sticking to the sides of cone? Theres a red adjuster out of the water and a valve adjuster in the tubing thats in the water. Im not sure which to turn up or down?

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Yea slightly adjust the water level and it should push it over the lip of the inside cup. (SLIGHTLY)!! Now for the record it will still build up there it kind of normal but of course that's with it also filling the actual cup up too.
 
Use the red adjuster out of the water, make 1/4 turns in either direction and wait for the skimmer to adjust and make adjustments accordingly to what you see but give the skimmer some time every time you turn the red adjuster
 
Great! Thxs! So make the foam go higher in the tube? How he high should the foam go to the top ofthe tube?
 
Yep, now the level all depends on your liking but normally somewhere in the middle would be good until u find your sweet spot.
 

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