Wet Vs, Dry Foam

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:17:34 GMT, "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?

Thanks,
Susan

Susan,

If you have cleaned the riser tube, as others have suggested, and it
still doesn't work very well, try taking it off the tank and immersing
it in the sink in tepid freshwater.
I do not know or use this skimmer( so don't immerse the electrics !),
but all skimmers accumulate salt deposits with use, and the freshwater
is required to remove the salt. You may have to completely
dissassemble the skimmer to clean the pump. HTH.

Regards, Fishnut.


"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