Seaclone Skimmer

[FishFreak1961]

My skimmer has never produced foam or bubbles
I only have the tornado action in the chamber. Is that
normal? I hear it is supposed to foam, but not mine.
It always looks clean. The output is normal, no bubbles
into tank. Seems to be working properly, but no foam?
Everyone is healthy and I change filter every month
and clean skimmer twice a month. Water is in good
shape. Little or no ammonia or nitrates present.
I have a 20 gal QT, should I move it there and get
a better one for my 36 gallon SW tank?

 

[melosu58]

I`m not familiar with that one but shouldnt there be an air line to draw air in and produce the foam?

 

[FishFreak1961]

There is an airline and at the end there is a knob you turn to increase or
decrease airflow. I have mine closed, maybe I need to open it. I just feel
like it is TOO clean and I'm not skimming. The top of the water does not
have a nasty looking coat of slime you sometimes see. I am looking in to
an aquac remora. I read good things about it, negative things about seaclone.
I can put that one on my 20 gal QT that doesn't have a skimmer at all now,
just an in tank quiet filter and it seems to stay pretty clean.

 

[melosu58]

You need some air going through to get the foam to form and then it will rise up.

 

[FishFreak1961]

I'll open it up a bit and see how it goes. Thanks for the input!!

 

[thominil]

When you open the valve up, open it to the point where you see a large air bubble in the bend on the pipe that transfers water from the pump to the skimmer, and then slowly close it until the bubble is almost completely gone. This is the only way I have gotten mine to "skim" It produces a very, very wet and thin skimmate most of the time. I would grab that Remora in a heartbeat if I had a bigger tank as the SeaClone stinks, but I really don't need a skimmer on my tank so I'm just going to leave it alone. HTH.

Other brands to look at are Reef Octopus and CPR Aquatics.

 

[FishFreak1961]

Sure got noisy when I opened up airlime. Spitting what looks like
left overs in the aquarium too, That can't be good... but I am seeing foam.
I'll see if I have collected anything in the a.m.

 

[FishFreak1961]

I meant airline. I did order the remora and I'll move the seaclone to the
QT I guess. It is loud now with the valve opened up. Been doing it wrong
for months. I don't really like the way the seaclone is made because if you
aren't very careful it will come apart and you will have a mess on your hands
like I had when I didn't tighten it enough and spilled lots of water