Coralife Needle Wheel Skimmer Question

I have a Coralife Skimmer,it's the 220 gallon model.There are no
micro bubbles being produced,and there is no skimmate.I checked the
"silencer" that has a tube running down to the venturi at the
pump.There is no air flow through this silencer,through either
nipple on it.It's a round piece of plastic,with two "nipples" on the
top of it.When I disconnect the tubing,and let it suck air it
appears to run normally,but the skimmate is WAY to wet,and the level
rises too high.Any help would be appreciated,the website is useless.








Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans.
-Robert E. Lee


We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us
wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent
our falling into greater disasters.
-Robert E. Lee

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Don't everyone answer up all togethe rnow on this simple to answer
question.............or is everyone still licking their wounds! Yet
another reason to patronize a decent web based forum so you can get an
answer to a question. That is unless perhaps as some think you have
not been a memeber here long enough to warrant any attention since
this seems to be such a closed and narrow mined bunch!

Go to Creativereefing.com......they wil be more than happy to answer
your question......
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:01:46 GMT, Duce )
wrote:

I have a Coralife Skimmer,it's the 220 gallon model.There are no
micro bubbles being produced,and there is no skimmate.I checked the
"silencer" that has a tube running down to the venturi at the
pump.There is no air flow through this silencer,through either
nipple on it.It's a round piece of plastic,with two "nipples" on the
top of it.When I disconnect the tubing,and let it suck air it
appears to run normally,but the skimmate is WAY to wet,and the level
rises too high.Any help would be appreciated,the website is useless.








Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans.
-Robert E. Lee


We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us
wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent
our falling into greater disasters.
-Robert E. Lee



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

Here's my experience, take it for what you will. I've been battling
with this particular skimmer for over a year now, I'm near replacing it.
But over the last week it's produced zero bubbles, so here's what I
did to solve it. First I don't think that your silencer is the issue, I
think I noticed mine is uni-directional, so that it may seem blocked,
but try sucking instead of blowing. But I digress, I find that moving
the pump closer to the surface of the water allows it to take on bubbles
either with or without the silencer, but it is good and loud without.
I don't know that I want to officially recommend snipping the tubing
on your pump(the one that feeds to the skimmer) but it worked for me. I
assume it's easily replacable at any local home improvement store if it
gets messed up.

Other issues I find with the CSS, bubble diffuser is absolutely
worthless. Occasionally it would get tempermental and fill itself up
with no real warning, and leak all over my floor as it has no reason not
to pour out the top. I've been trying to fix the problems as they come,
but it's annoying, keeping the water level where it's supposed to be is
not super fun. And the instructions and website mention none of this.

wrote:
I have a Coralife Skimmer,it's the 220 gallon model.There are no
micro bubbles being produced,and there is no skimmate.I checked the
"silencer" that has a tube running down to the venturi at the
pump.There is no air flow through this silencer,through either
nipple on it.It's a round piece of plastic,with two "nipples" on the
top of it.When I disconnect the tubing,and let it suck air it
appears to run normally,but the skimmate is WAY to wet,and the level
rises too high.Any help would be appreciated,the website is useless.








Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans.
-Robert E. Lee


We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us
wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent
our falling into greater disasters.
-Robert E. Lee

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Also worth mention is I have the smaller one.

Pat wrote:
Here's my experience, take it for what you will. I've been battling
with this particular skimmer for over a year now, I'm near replacing it.
But over the last week it's produced zero bubbles, so here's what I did
to solve it. First I don't think that your silencer is the issue, I
think I noticed mine is uni-directional, so that it may seem blocked,
but try sucking instead of blowing. But I digress, I find that moving
the pump closer to the surface of the water allows it to take on bubbles
either with or without the silencer, but it is good and loud without.
I don't know that I want to officially recommend snipping the tubing on
your pump(the one that feeds to the skimmer) but it worked for me. I
assume it's easily replacable at any local home improvement store if it
gets messed up.

Other issues I find with the CSS, bubble diffuser is absolutely
worthless. Occasionally it would get tempermental and fill itself up
with no real warning, and leak all over my floor as it has no reason not
to pour out the top. I've been trying to fix the problems as they come,
but it's annoying, keeping the water level where it's supposed to be is
not super fun. And the instructions and website mention none of this.

wrote:

I have a Coralife Skimmer,it's the 220 gallon model.There are no micro
bubbles being produced,and there is no skimmate.I checked the
"silencer" that has a tube running down to the venturi at the
pump.There is no air flow through this silencer,through either nipple
on it.It's a round piece of plastic,with two "nipples" on the top of
it.When I disconnect the tubing,and let it suck air it appears to run
normally,but the skimmate is WAY to wet,and the level rises too
high.Any help would be appreciated,the website is useless.








Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans.
-Robert E. Lee


We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us
wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent
our falling into greater disasters. -Robert E. Lee

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hmmmmmmmm
Totally amazing to me. I happen to have 6 CSS skimmers adn they have
yet to screw up or not do what they are diesigned to do. Sounds more
like the skimmer is smarter than the consumer....and the regulars here
are clueless.....


On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:11:43 -0600, Pat wrote:

Here's my experience, take it for what you will. I've been battling
with this particular skimmer for over a year now, I'm near replacing it.
But over the last week it's produced zero bubbles, so here's what I
did to solve it. First I don't think that your silencer is the issue, I
think I noticed mine is uni-directional, so that it may seem blocked,
but try sucking instead of blowing. But I digress, I find that moving
the pump closer to the surface of the water allows it to take on bubbles
either with or without the silencer, but it is good and loud without.
I don't know that I want to officially recommend snipping the tubing
on your pump(the one that feeds to the skimmer) but it worked for me. I
assume it's easily replacable at any local home improvement store if it
gets messed up.

Other issues I find with the CSS, bubble diffuser is absolutely
worthless. Occasionally it would get tempermental and fill itself up
with no real warning, and leak all over my floor as it has no reason not
to pour out the top. I've been trying to fix the problems as they come,
but it's annoying, keeping the water level where it's supposed to be is
not super fun. And the instructions and website mention none of this.

wrote:
I have a Coralife Skimmer,it's the 220 gallon model.There are no
micro bubbles being produced,and there is no skimmate.I checked the
"silencer" that has a tube running down to the venturi at the
pump.There is no air flow through this silencer,through either
nipple on it.It's a round piece of plastic,with two "nipples" on the
top of it.When I disconnect the tubing,and let it suck air it
appears to run normally,but the skimmate is WAY to wet,and the level
rises too high.Any help would be appreciated,the website is useless.








Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans.
-Robert E. Lee


We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us
wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent
our falling into greater disasters.
-Robert E. Lee

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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

Then you answer him

Tristin wrote:
hmmmmmmmm
Totally amazing to me. I happen to have 6 CSS skimmers adn they have
yet to screw up or not do what they are diesigned to do. Sounds more
like the skimmer is smarter than the consumer....and the regulars here
are clueless.....


On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:11:43 -0600, Pat wrote:

Here's my experience, take it for what you will. I've been battling
with this particular skimmer for over a year now, I'm near replacing it.
But over the last week it's produced zero bubbles, so here's what I
did to solve it. First I don't think that your silencer is the issue, I
think I noticed mine is uni-directional, so that it may seem blocked,
but try sucking instead of blowing. But I digress, I find that moving
the pump closer to the surface of the water allows it to take on bubbles
either with or without the silencer, but it is good and loud without.
I don't know that I want to officially recommend snipping the tubing
on your pump(the one that feeds to the skimmer) but it worked for me. I
assume it's easily replacable at any local home improvement store if it
gets messed up.

Other issues I find with the CSS, bubble diffuser is absolutely
worthless. Occasionally it would get tempermental and fill itself up
with no real warning, and leak all over my floor as it has no reason not
to pour out the top. I've been trying to fix the problems as they come,
but it's annoying, keeping the water level where it's supposed to be is
not super fun. And the instructions and website mention none of this.

wrote:
I have a Coralife Skimmer,it's the 220 gallon model.There are no
micro bubbles being produced,and there is no skimmate.I checked the
"silencer" that has a tube running down to the venturi at the
pump.There is no air flow through this silencer,through either
nipple on it.It's a round piece of plastic,with two "nipples" on the
top of it.When I disconnect the tubing,and let it suck air it
appears to run normally,but the skimmate is WAY to wet,and the level
rises too high.Any help would be appreciated,the website is useless.








Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans.
-Robert E. Lee


We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us
wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent
our falling into greater disasters.
-Robert E. Lee

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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:16:40 -0600, Pat wrote:

Then you answer him

I have already....sign up at creativereefing.com and stop fooling with
this mess in this forum that don't have a clue for the most
part....Answers is one thing, guesses are another and its guesses
that this group excells at.....This group has gone to hell in a
handbasket since Rick Seyler left!


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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

I did join the forum as advised,and promptly posted a question
there.As for the skimmer,there seems to be an issue with the
silencer,it is a little too silent in that it doesnt work.It seems
to be clogged for some reason.I suspect that when they glued the two
outer pieces of the silencer together some glue may have clogged
it.At any rate I solved the problem by simply replacing the silencer
with an airstone,similar to the one I use in the planted tank,it
works like a charm.I must say that I was suprised at how big that
skimmer is,the tank is too new as yet to see how it skims,more on
that later.








Abandon your animosities, and make your sons Americans.
-Robert E. Lee


We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us
wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent
our falling into greater disasters.
-Robert E. Lee

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Hey Duce....It looks like there is a reply to your question on
Creative reefing in regards to your skimmer as well as your
lighting...Good bunch of folks there!




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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

Roy "Tristin" Hauer stalker of old ladies wrote
nothing of value to anyone and was
promptly slapped down by a dead clam:
wrote in message ...
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:16:40 -0600, Pat wrote:

Then you answer him


Sod off troll.......... go haunt a house......

I have already....sign up at creativereefing.com and stop fooling with
this mess in this forum that don't have a clue for the most
part....Answers is one thing, guesses are another and its guesses
that this group excells at.....This group has gone to hell in a
handbasket since Rick Seyler left!


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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!