quick help needed

[kimberly]

Normally my husband posts here these days under my name. He is the owner of all the s/w tanks. He is out of the country right now & I am in charge of the tanks. I cannot contact him even though I have tried.

His tank is fullof bubbles. They are everywhere. I am sure it is a simple fix, but I don't know what to do to fix it. Thanks.

 

[jerejohnson]

what kind of setup do you have? if you have a sump( a tank under the main tank ) then it might be low on water or the skimmer is feeding the main with bubbles. if you dont have a sump and the main tank if low on water then a power head might be feeding it air..

 

[Innovator]

We would need to know more about the tank as far as filtration is concerned. Possibly needing a top-off (sump?) and/or skimmer producing bubbles, etc...

 

[kimberly]

I don't know more, but there is a sump so I will add water & see if that helps.

 

[Innovator]

Look to see if there is a pump having a hard time taking in water by sucking air. It'll be noticeably loud...

 

[kimberly]

I added about 5 gallons of water & it isn't bubbling anymore. Thank you.

 

[ellisz]

I hope this was not straight tap water and since you added 5 gal of water, I assume the tank is somewhat big?

 

[tecwzrd]

It's a 190 gal tank with a 120 gal fuge. 5 gal of chlorinated tap shouldn't harm 310 gallons but in the future it's best to either use ro/di or at the very least dechlorinated tap water.

I guess the auto-top off idea hasn't been implemented yet.

kimberly, tanks typically loose 1%-2% of FW from evaporation every day depending on temperature/lighting/time of year and your tank should loose around 2-5 daily and needs to be topped of at least 2-3 times a week with FW to keep the sg stable.

 

[melosu58]

The ole low sump trick huh. You should be OK now. As Micah said keep an eye on it as it will go back down.