Micro Bubbles

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  1. twobjustme

    twobjustme Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Can someone please help me with my skimmer. I have had it now for about two weeks. It calmed down the other day and the micro bubbles reduced considerably, but as you can see they are still going strong even with the bag attached. I'm getting enough skimmate for my two fish. Does anyone see anything I need to do differently?

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    twobjustme, Dec 1, 2009
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  2. LrgTime

    LrgTime Astrea Snail

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    I dont have any experience with the CPR bak-pak skimmers but, That bag dosent look like it filters out microbubbles...

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  3. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    i put a filter sock over my octopus outtake tube because i was getting a million microbubbles into the tank. The sock take cares of all the microbubbles now my tank is microbubble free, i just have a big white thing in my tank but i prefer that over the bubbles, i'd look into one
     
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  4. twobjustme

    twobjustme Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Is the filter sock you're using the one that came with you Octo 800?
     
    twobjustme, Dec 2, 2009
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  5. Puffer Chick

    Puffer Chick Giant Squid

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    no, i bought it from the lfs
     
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  6. twobjustme

    twobjustme Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Going to my LFS today. Hopefully they will have something that will help. I think my tank would look great and crystal clear if I could get rid of these stinking bubbles. My algae is not too bad, so other than that, I think it would look good.
     
    twobjustme, Dec 3, 2009
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