Reef Octo 2000classic HOB

[JBenton]

I recently purchased this skimmer and was wondering if this thing is suppose to be loud? It’s mostly from the motor area its a constant loud hummmm. It’s way louder than all my other equipment combined. This is the third day running it and it’s obnoxious. TIA

 

[fishguy242]

Hi, have you tried reseating unions on pump?
something in pump ?
have had many ,loudest was the air intake

 

[JBenton]

I feel like majority of the sound may be from air inside the motor area causing some of the noise it doesn’t seem as loud when I have my finger over the air hose. I’ll pull it apart tonight and re seat everything and make sure I didn’t put it together wrong or something.

 

[fishguy242]

just try unplugging and plugging back in a couple of times ,a minute apart ,may purge air from pump/pipe... ;)