Ok did the Chemiclean for Cyano 2 day cycle, water change and now Skimmer is going berzerko...

[CanuckReefer]

Problem here is it's a hang on variety, which would entail one heck of a mess. Even with little to zero air in the venturi....thoughts? Another few days with it off and powerhead toward surface?
Thanks all.

 

[Shufflepig]

May need to leave it off for a while. Took my skimmer 2 weeks to settle down after the treatment.

 

[CanuckReefer]

May need to leave it off for a while. Took my skimmer 2 weeks to settle down after the treatment.

Wow ok, good to know, thanks much.

 

[Uncle99]

I ran my skimmer to pull out organics in the water as a result of treatment.
I did have to dial it back.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Chemiclean will make the skimmer go nuts

 

[Montiman]

If the skimmer has a drain fitting then I like to run the drain into a bucket and then keep dumping the bucket until the skimmer calms down. This may take a couple hours but after a dump or two the skimmer usually goes back to normal.

 

[phatduckk]

My skimmer has a hose that I can use to drain it... post chemi-clean I turned off my ATO a few hours, put the hose in a bucket and let it drain a couple hours.

it was slightly annoying as I constantly had to top off with salt water but it didn’t take too long.

(also, did a pretty large water change right before the skimmer nonsense)

 

[phatduckk]

If the skimmer has a drain fitting then I like to run the drain into a bucket and then keep dumping the bucket until the skimmer calms down. This may take a couple hours but after a dump or two the skimmer usually goes back to normal.

Ha! You beat me to it!