Protein Skimmer Microbubble (Help)

[littlekeong]

Hi all, I just bought a Nyos Quantum 160 skimmer. From the start until now I having microbubble issue. I contacted the seller but he said adjust my air intake but the microbubble still exists even after I adjust the air intake. it is driving me crazy.

[inwear]

It could be your either additives e.g Amino acid or fatty compounds e.g mysis shrimps ...all both

[littlekeong]

1 minute ago, inwear said:

It could be your either additives e.g Amino acid or fatty compounds e.g mysis shrimps ...all both

I don't think so, I tried once to turn off everything and feed pellet for my fish for a week but the bubble still there. never lesser.

[soggycookies]

Try using a black bio sponge to prevent the micro bubbles from entering your main display indefinitely


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[littlekeong]

5 minutes ago, soggycookies said:

Try using a black bio sponge to prevent the micro bubbles from entering your main display indefinitely


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Ok, I give it a try. 

[Solo77]

Just give it more times to stablise. 

[alvarogr]

I’ve had a similar problem.. also drove me crazy.. I changed the location of my skimmer in my sump so its water discharge now falls into the middle compartment were my refugium is, and not the last chamber were the return pump is. That helped, but not perfect.. it improved when I threw in chaeto to my refugium, (bubbles would get trapped). Then I noticed that how fine my sock on the return influenced a lot.. no sock was the worse... I ended up putting fiber just underneath the return... but my flow into the sump became very slow and my pump would empty the last chamber out too fast... so I HAD to reduce the LPH from my pump from 5000 lph to 1000 lph... and THAT did the trick.. I’ll have to compensate water current on DT with power heads but that’s ok...NO MORE MICRO BUBBLES!!!

 

 

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[littlekeong]

5 minutes ago, alvarogr said:

I’ve had a similar problem.. I changed the location of my skimmer in my sump to the water discharge falls into my refugium and not the last chamber were the return pump is. That helped, but not perfect.. it improved when I threw in chaeto to my refugium... finally reducing the LPH from my pump did the trick.. I’ll have to compensate w power heads but that’s ok


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I actually thinking whether I install the skimmer in the right way or not. 

hahaha

[alvarogr]

I actually thinking whether I install the skimmer in the right way or not. 
hahaha

It’s not just the skimmer bro.. you have to think like a micro bubble.. become one with the micro bubble.. then the answer will come...


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[leong_rei]

Try reinstall the thing again maybe some place is loss cause the bubble to leak out if not should not have so much bubble in tank

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[moscowites]

Hey guys. Resurfacing this topic. I have a Nyos Quantum 120 that has been breaking in for 3 days now. Same issue is happening where a lot of micro bubbles are escaping out of the skimmer outlet. I've heard that it may take up to 14 days from some users in US forums so I'd like to confirm if this is the case. Can anyone advise on what's happening here?