Wet Vs, Dry Foam

Yes...Clean it.
Once per day if you can.


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
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I'm not familiar with that brand, but have you cleaned it recently? After
a while a film builds up in the risor colum, and reduces it's efectivenes.

Also check to see if it is producing the desired amount of water flow, and
air input.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Susan wrote on 1/14/2006 12:17 PM:
I have a Aqua C Remora that has been running for about 3 months or so.
It's recently slowed down a whole lot and not producing any skim mate
hardly at all. Is this common?

Thanks,
Susan
"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
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Yep a dry foam is thick, and produces dark skimmate, and a wet foam is
watery, and produces a watery skimmate.

I had a skimmer running so dry one time that everything in the collection
cup was nothing but piled up crumbles of bone dry foam. That's not the
ideal way to do it, but it was funny to look at it and say "Now that's a
dry foam" :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



wrote on 1/14/2006 9:13 AM:

When they say wet or dry foam, they mean relatively wet or dry. A 'wet'
foam will give you a watery skimmate in the collection cup. A 'dry'
foam gives you a thicker skimmate.

For what it's worth, I never got any foam out of my Prizm skimmer. If
you're using a hang on skimmer, the Aqua C Remora is very reliable and
easy to use.


HTH,
Mark