thanks. I have no idea why I had such a hard time comphrending that. Need more coffee, lol
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I keep my foam/bubble line right above my finger in the pictures it works pretty well for me
i'm currently dosing AquaForest Products so the balling method creates quite the dry black skim mate.
I'm also A little paranoid that the skimmers got to constantly be on point so I watch it while I'm working via camera inside sump.
very helpful info here! thank youYeah another important trick to skimmers is once you have it tuned to skim as wet or dry as you prefer/need. Don't mess with it further. If you have to feed something, turn it off, remove the cup for cleaning, ect, that's fine, just don't mess with the foam level adjustment. Skimmate production will vary by the hour of the day and how much/often you feed. Once it's set, the water tension itself based on available organics in the water sort of make them self adjusting to a point. As in, feed a lot more, and you'll get more skimmate, stop feeding entirely and skimmer production will drop. If you use certain foods it'll kill the foam head and drop it low inside the skimmer body, and some epoxy putties will cause it to overflow for hours sometimes days. Don't adjust it though just let the skimmer react and it will stabilize again. Once you start chasing settings what will happen is you'll check back two hours later and it's not where you left it. When you increase or decrease the flow through the skimmer body it can take hours for organics inside the skimmer to build up or deplete to the point that the foam head will indeed move from where you set it. Best to set it low, say...at the base of the collection cup, and run it like that a few days. If the neck gunks up and you get nothing in the cup, clean the neck, and do a couple millimeter turn of the adjustment knob to raise the foam level, leave it a couple days. See if it's producing the way you want. That's always worked for me. Recently got a new skimmer and took a couple days to find the sweet spot for a heavy but dry skimmate production. Now I just leave it as is and clean the neck with a toothbrush every 3-4 days