help with oceanic biocube skimmer

i picked one up today for 25 bucks why not huh. im wondering where the bubble level needs to be in the cup thanks for any help i see this thing is going to be a pain in my butt

 

I'm not sure about the oceanic brand skimmers but the one i have, an Aquatic Life mini internal skimmer, i've heard is similar. I keep my bubble level near the bottom of the neck in the cup. Then as the skimmate builds up, it moves up the neck and spills over, then starts all over again. It takes it awhile to start building up but once it does, it usually goes pretty good. Hope this helps.

 

now its making a coulmn of bubbles all the way to the lid but the cup is not filling up with water

 

Maybe this will help clear things up, your cup has a neck that the tower of bubbles rises up in (you should not see any water in here, just bubbles). As this bubble tower gets bigger, it eventually overflows into the bottom of the collection cup. Once it overflows, the tower of bubbles shrinks a little and the process restarts. When first setting it up, you want the very initial level of bubbles to be somewhere near the bottom of the neck. After it's been running for a while, the bubble column will form. The skimmate that is collected should be a thicker than water and greenish brown mixture.

 

thanks k+ that helps looks like it working

 

That's good to hear.

 

Yea I had a little trouble finding the sweet spot with mine. It just takes some playing around with. And like mentioned above. You don't want water filling this thing up just foam. The stuff that comes out of mine has a blueish green color to the liquid with stuff floating in it. Not to mention the foam.

 

so thia thing is working for you? i have never herd anyone say a good thing about one yet but i figured some skimm is better than no skimm

 

it works better in the trash

 

yea i see that it skimms a little but i have to mess with it all the time the stuff it pulls out is like a light brown but it was all i can fit in this little tank and it was 25$