I did have the same problem you are having on my second Skimmer I built. I thought that something was wrong with the stone or the pump. Just to see what would happen, I let it run for a few days with the bubbles about 3” from the stopper. Few days later everything was working fine. I hope the same goes for yours. I really think the Skimmer just needs to break in. Let me know what happens.
That’s great! I’m glad you got it going. Took me a few days to get it dialed in right where I wanted it. Made a small adjustment every few hours until it was at a good spot. How did you end up mounting yours?
Nice!
Just a ziptie to a hole in my kessil gooseneck bracket haha.
Pretty sketchy but its hidden pretty well
Make sure your skim bottle is downhill first. Something cool is happening however. When the skim foams up enough to block the stopper out hole, it pushes the air bubbles down due to the increased air pressure then pushes the skim out into the skim bottle. That’s how the skim is removed. Depending on where you have the bubbles tuned at, this should happen every few minutes or longer. Any more frequent then it’s got a wet skim, tune it down very slightly.
Wow, that’s crazy you can hear that. One of my tanks is beside my bed. I never can hear it but, that might be because I sleep with a fan on. I wonder if you could stick a piece of foam over the vent holes to maybe soften the sound. My skim lines are about 10-12” from the Skimmer.
You might be on to something. The 1/2” tube gives another outlet to push water and air pressure out of. Maybe since yours does not have the outlet, it has more pressure against the air stone causing it to be louder. The tube I purchased on amazon was 4’ worth. I was able to do a prototype (incorporated a powerhead but didn’t work), one for my main display and one for my tank in my bedroom. Do you have any Polycarbonate tube left over to experiment with?
Nice! Let me know if you try to fire that one up.Yeah I do, Im actually working on a prototype. I have some specimen cups left over from a coral buy that im going to use as a collection cup. I also siliconed in the 1/2 tube.
At the moment though the current version is working great and only woke me up once last night. So I might just leave this new prototype on the sideline for a little.
I figured out why the BLOOP BLOOP sound was happening bc one of my skimmers started to do it. It has been waking me up as well lol. The Skimmer I have on my bedroom tank is set for more of a dryer skim. The skim bubbles collect about 1.5-2” below the stopper. The inside of the Skimmer started to get real dirty in that section considering I have been neglecting cleaning it. It started to force the bubbles down to where they started to collect at 2-2.5” inches below the stopper. This caused the skim bubbles to have a lot of buildup before it could be forced into the skim bottle. The BLOOP BLOOP started at this point because it was taken more pressure to send the skim bubbles out and was forcing large air bubbles out of the bottom of the Skimmer, making that sound. I cleaned the inside of the Skimmer today and set it to have more of a wet skim where the bubbles start to collect at about 1-1.5” below the stopper. Quite as before now.
