"Big Habeeb" wrote in message
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On Nov 29, 11:16 am, KurtG wrote:
Pszemol wrote:
The amount of waste in the skimmer WILL strongly depend
on how big is the bioload of your tank. So clean cup can mean
that there is nothing wrong with the skimmer but your tank
is just clean.

You should be able to adjust the skimmer to just get tea colored water
out of it. (It should be much darker though).

Perhaps you have a preset skimmer, and not much you can do about it.

Well, the skimmer I have is an oceanic, though I dunno what model. It
has an adjustable air hose, a hose on the side that I can raise or
lower to raise or lower the level of the bubbles in the skimmer
etc...but no matter how high and wide open I set the thing, I can't
seem to get it to bubble over into the cup. It's still pulling a
decent amount of scumminess out, so I'm not terribly concerned, but
I'd like to get it up and running in its intended way before my
bioload DOES get higher.

On the skimmers I've seen you want to get the bubbles to the bottom of the
collection cup. They don't start flowing into the cup until the water has
enough poop in it. "Poop" is the technical term. g Sounds to me like your
water is real clean and you need to let it get dirty so the skimmer can do
it's job.

If it's not skimming and your water is testing dirty you might have a
problem.

IMHO - Jim

I don't know what I'm talking about :-)