What the.....?

[Micah00]

I went down stairs this morning and the fish in my 135 are all laying on the bottom. There is water all over the floor and my sump is almost completly dry. My skimmer cup is drilled and the 1 gal container not to mention the cup is completly full. But what it pulled is just water no color to it at all. If it had lost siphion it would over filled the tank, but the where the majority of the water was around my collection container. So question is what caused the skimmer to just start pulling water out? The section of my sump where the skimmer is set up where I can keep a constant water level, so the only water it gets is from to overflow it can't pull water from the rest of the sump.

I filled the sump and got it going again pretty quick but within an hour I lost 2 fish including my annularius angel that was eating size. The only thing that survived was my puffer which looks pretty bad as we speak.

 

[PeeJ]

sounds like a clogged venturi, injector, etc. poor oxygen exchange since no skimmer. thatd be my guess.

what type of skimmer is it?

 

[Anonymous]

My skimmer's collection cup has a small overflow in the side. It won't let skimmate through, but if it just starts pulling plain water for whatever reason, it'll just overflow directly back into the sump. So if something goes wrong, I may end up getting some diluted skimmate back into the system, but it won't overflow onto the floor or anything.

 

[Micah00]

The venturi wasn't clogged or anything. I refilled the sump and fired it right back up. The only thing I can figure the pump on the skimmer was forcing all the water up the skimmer and didn't let it flow into the sump. I had no water movement.