Tiny bubbles

[virginreef]

I completed a water change yesterday afternoon and my tank is full of tiny bubbles... thoughts on what I should do?

 

[Victor_C3]

Micro-bubbles can be a pain in the butt as there can be many causes for them.

Did you maybe bump something between your return pump and return line? Sometimes a leak around a fitting will allow air to enter the water flowing through the lines. Due to the speed of the water flowing through the return, a vacuum is created and air is sucked into some of these small leaks rather than water expelled out.

Kind of like how air is pulled through those weird vacuum nozzles on the end of sinks in chemistry laboratories in school.

 

[virginreef]

I think I fixed

Micro-bubbles can be a pain in the butt as there can be many causes for them.

Did you maybe bump something between your return pump and return line? Sometimes a leak around a fitting will allow air to enter the water flowing through the lines. Due to the speed of the water flowing through the return, a vacuum is created and air is sucked into some of these small leaks rather than water expelled out.

Kind of like how air is pulled through those weird vacuum nozzles on the end of sinks in chemistry laboratories in school.

I believed I may have fixed it... I believe it was the skimmer... the bubbles did clear up... about 80% of them. The skimmer is not stable. So I will monitor. Appreciate your feed back