coralife super skimmer 220

[nickev0]

i have had ths skimer for about 8 months now it was used when i got it it made great foam when i got it and now makes almost no skim makes foam at top of collection cup but nothing collects going on for a while now nitrates shot up drasticly im thinking new pump need sugestions on pump i did the pods with pluming and fish line lots of micro bubbles but still doesnt shoot foam out of the skimmer liek it use to

[nickev0]

bump still need help

[Hop]

Have you soaked the pump, volute/venturi and other pump parts in vinegar?

[nickev0]

iv cleaned it out with warm waterit still makes lots of foam just doesnt push it out the top very little if any at times over a month now

[OneDummHikk]

What happens when you raise the water level in the skimmer?

[nickev0]

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[nickev0]

it seems to look like its working fine but then i look after a day and no skim has collected the bubbles rise higher

[nickev0]

help

[nickev0]

anybody

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ok

[Hop]

Run it over night in a 1:1 vinegar and water solution. I've never had a CSS, but this seems like a fairly common complaint. Some say that salt creep can plug where the air is injected and needs to be cleaned fairly regularly.

[OneDummHikk]

Put it in a 18G Tote (walmart) and run it in a 1:1 vinegar solution. The entire skimmer. Remove the lid from the collection cup and set the water level to overflow the cup so that the entire skimmer gets a bath. Remove the airline so that it pulls water through the venturi hole and cleans it.

But, what size tank is it on? I had a 220 on my 90 and after a few weeks it simply stopped producing (much like what you are describing) but it wasn't anything wrong with the skimmer, the tank simply didn't have enough bioload to produce skimmate for me. I ended up dosing the tank to get it to produce. Now, its on a 75 and at the moment its skimming like crazy (the tank was skimmerless for almost 6 months) but in a few months I expect the skimmate production to drop off again.

[nickev0]

its on a 75 i have a 30 sump and a 10 refugium do you think its just nothing in the tank to skim i have a large bio load and all the parts a pretty clean nothing blocking the hole at all no calcium build up at all i dose the tank regularly i even hooked up an air pump to it to push more air threw it but still not much so y do my nitrates shoot up so high so high its embarasing to say evrything worked well i started to do 30%water changes to drop the levels twice a week almost

[nickev0]

can it stop skimming do to nothing to skim there is about 30 pieces of caral mix and about 13 larger fish tangs and sort nothing that small and about 120 lbs lr in a 75