Wet Vs, Dry Foam

I recently installed a Red Sea Prizm Protein Skimmer. This probably
sounds like a dumb questions but when the insuctions talk about wet
vs. dry foam I have no idea what they are talking about. All foam to
me is wet??? The instructions do not explain the difference just say
that Dry foam is what you want? I have no idea what dry foam is or
how to get it. So please after have a good laugh at me for not knowing
could you please expalin what they heck they are talking about.

Thanks,
Mark.

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

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

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
...
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

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
...

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

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


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
...
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
...

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

I think what the original poster (and me after now reading this) was
really after, was how you set the skimmer up to produce a dry foam
rather than a wet foam... as i get this watery collection in the cup
rather than the thick gloupy stuff I see in other skimmers. Is it all
down to the water level in the riser column or the amount of organics
in your water?

Thanks.
Chris.

Adjust the skimmer to produce oits column of bubbles lower n the
reactor tube for a drier skim and higher up in the column for wetter
skim....
The wetter the skim they say the more junk is taken out overall but it
also increases the need to add more top off water. I prefer a drier
skim myself which is usually a much more darker mass.
On 15 Jan 2006 01:38:32 -0800, "eskimoigloo"
wrote:
I think what the original poster (and me after now reading this) was
really after, was how you set the skimmer up to produce a dry foam
rather than a wet foam... as i get this watery collection in the cup
rather than the thick gloupy stuff I see in other skimmers. Is it all
down to the water level in the riser column or the amount of organics
in your water?

Thanks.
Chris.

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Have you cleaned the inside of the collection cup's tower (the vertical
tube)? I find I need to do this about every three or four days.

If you have, it's possible that some particle has gotten inside the
skimmer and is clogging it. The Remora comes with directions for
removing such a clog, by removing the adjustment screw and running a
brush through the hole. Be very careful when reinserting the
adjustment screw to avoid pushing the screw inside the skimmer.

Susan wrote:
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?

Most skimmers, you adjust the amount of air going in. Some
skimmers, you can adjust the hight of the colum so that
the foam has to rise higher.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



eskimoigloo wrote on 1/15/2006 4:38 AM:
I think what the original poster (and me after now reading this) was
really after, was how you set the skimmer up to produce a dry foam
rather than a wet foam... as i get this watery collection in the cup
rather than the thick gloupy stuff I see in other skimmers. Is it all
down to the water level in the riser column or the amount of organics
in your water?

Thanks.
Chris.