My Skimmer, a reef octopus essence s130 that has been running on my system for three years will not stop overflowing, I have given it a thorough cleaning, raised it up to the point of the lower vent of the exit is above the water line, verified venturi is clear, no new additions or use of epoxy or chemicals, 3 water changes of 25 gallons in the past month and it just continues to foam over.
The only change I can think of is I stopped dosing nopox, this is about a 90 gallon water volume system and I was dosing 4ml in the morning. My numbers went way out of whack, Nitrates undetectable but Phosphates still high at between .86 to 1. and corals were losing colors so figured time to get back to basics and stopped dosing it.
Before Nopox my system was running at Nitrates 50-100 (salifert test) and Phosphates of 1.9 to 2 (Hannah test) I tried new test kits as nothing I did reduced those numbers and started wondering about accuracy but from increased water changes, rinsing food, reduced feedings,, thorough cleaning of sump nothing helped.
I am at just about 10 gallons right now of overflow from the skimmer into a bucket replacing with fresh made SW and it has not slowed and I am stopping for now.
So the only change is stopped dosing NOPOX and opening windows but in my three years with this tank and skimmer never had this issue.
Thoughts, is stopping Nopox the culprit? Should I just bite the bullet and get a new skimmer?
This little video clip is the skimmer sitting in 5.5" of water which is less than the recommended and after letting 10 gallons overflow out of the system through the skimmer
The only change I can think of is I stopped dosing nopox, this is about a 90 gallon water volume system and I was dosing 4ml in the morning. My numbers went way out of whack, Nitrates undetectable but Phosphates still high at between .86 to 1. and corals were losing colors so figured time to get back to basics and stopped dosing it.
Before Nopox my system was running at Nitrates 50-100 (salifert test) and Phosphates of 1.9 to 2 (Hannah test) I tried new test kits as nothing I did reduced those numbers and started wondering about accuracy but from increased water changes, rinsing food, reduced feedings,, thorough cleaning of sump nothing helped.
I am at just about 10 gallons right now of overflow from the skimmer into a bucket replacing with fresh made SW and it has not slowed and I am stopping for now.
So the only change is stopped dosing NOPOX and opening windows but in my three years with this tank and skimmer never had this issue.
Thoughts, is stopping Nopox the culprit? Should I just bite the bullet and get a new skimmer?
This little video clip is the skimmer sitting in 5.5" of water which is less than the recommended and after letting 10 gallons overflow out of the system through the skimmer