Need help to calm turbulence down in my skimmer!

[fernandokng]

Just put a meshmod (thanks alex) on my Sedra 5000 on my RS135, and my air jumped from 10lpm to 17lpm. The body can handle max of 13-14lpm.

I manage to choke the air with an airvalve on the airtube, but still way too much turbulence to produce any fine stable bubbles.

Are there any mods I can do to calm this down?

FYI. The body of the skimmer is 6 inches, the neck is 3.5 inches, and it is 23" tall.

Thanks.

 

[NYreefNoob]

fern i have same skimmer and same pump same mod and have super micro nunnles, yu have the gave valve ? did pump start right up ? any humming ? do you notice at bottom of body a burst of bubble where it goes up and down ?

 

[fernandokng]

The whole thing is full of bubbles. I have the wedge pipe. Pump starts up after I blow the airtube. There's humming.

The pump works fine... it's just now that it's pulling too much air. I need to find a way to calm it down.

 

[NYreefNoob]

a wedge pipe ? the factory pipe you lift up and down ? or the gate valve mod ? if it had start up problem you need to trim some of the enkmat back

 

[autoponicz]

how many layers did you use....take 1 layer out and you should be ok... how long have you been running it....try giving it a week to break in and see how that goes...also lower the water level in the skimmer

 

[fernandokng]

It's only been running for 1 day. I used 3 mesh. Think it's a bit too much?

 

[Killerdrgn]

NO, usually 3 layers is right.

 

[NYreefNoob]

it will need to be broken in again. let it run for a few days

 

[fernandokng]

Yeah, it seems it might have to take some time to get broken in.

I put in a 90 degree elbow inside the skimmer, and that has seem to have choked the pump a little bit, making things better - but the bubbles are still all over the place.

 

[NYreefNoob]

naw shouldnt do that if you mean on the inside where the outlet for the pump is on the inside of the skimmer, that will cause it to swirl more

 

[fernandokng]

auto - did you cut the standpipe to lower the water level in your skimmer?

Do you have any pics on where to cut?

It's down to 1 mesh right now, and still hell of a lot of turbulence.