Is your protein skimmer giving out heat?

[Flaming Nemo]

Hi friends,

CUrrently my protein skimmer is giving out heat in my sump tank turning the water a bit warm.

Is this a problem or is normal? I'm using a submerging pump. The pump is in the water. The pump giving out heat....

Advise?

[iceman]

What skimmer u using?? What model is the pump?

[ervine]

is it giving out A LOT of heat? and how do you know it's giving out heat if it's in the water?

[subxero]

All pumps give out heat... its a matter of more or less.

However, it should not heat up the water too much or else it might affect the LS.

[hammy]

Hi friends,

CUrrently my protein skimmer is giving out heat in my sump tank turning the water a bit warm.

Is this a problem or is normal? I'm using a submerging pump. The pump is in the water. The pump giving out heat....

Advise?

advice ? get a chiller or fan to cool ur water temp.

more reliable pump such as aquabee / eheim are more energy effucient , thus consuming less electricity and produce less heat . can change ur pump too .

it is normal for pump to give out heat.

[Sapp]

Take the temperature of your water with the skimmer on. Then switch off the skimmer for about 1 hour or 2 and measure the temp again. Then you will know roughly if the pump for the skimmer is causing the water temp to rise sharply.

If it is, best advise is to change to a better pump like aquabee or ehiem that emits less heat.

[mansiz]

But no matter what, you have at least 3 power heads in your whole aquarium setup. One for circulating the main tank, one for skimmer and one as the return pump for pushing water back to the main tank. You will need a chiller. Or get a fan. Your temp will sure go up with 3 powerheads.

[Flaming Nemo]

THanks for all your advise!!!

I using Dymax brand.

FYI, I only using 1 pump to pump up the water from sump to main tank... i using gravtional energy to pull the water down...

Another issue....

My protein skimmer is producing lots of bubbles... in the sump tank causing bubbles to raise up in my main tank... very ugly....

How to solve?

When we should on the skimmer? Cos my tank just set up.. only live rocks and sands....

PLs advise me again...

THanks

[boxfish]

take a pic of your sump and show?

[ClOwNy_LoVeR]

it should not be like that unless there is a leak in your skimmer or there is too little water in your sump.

regards.

[w3ish3ng]

if he use beckett or something, that problem is likely to happen. go get some black sponge to eliminate the bubbles

[Flaming Nemo]

THanks !!

I used some black sponge and its reduce the bubbles significantly

BUt the heat is another prob again.....