New to salt water

I recently threw my old coralife 65 on my quarantine tank to aid both with flow and to keep it clean. Since I ran it in a baffled sump before never had any issues with bubbles but with this obviously I did... I simply pulled out the filter in the bubble catch and added a layer of filter floss at the bottom. Was still bubbly for about a day but cleared up nicely after that. Only other modification to mine is I drilled the cup to add a drain line.didn't drill very well so it's siliconed up really heavy but it works.

 

Good to know; I will try the floss and see if that helps! The newer models come with a 3/8" nipple for a drain, which is nice.

In case anyone else was wondering, for the first week after starting the skimmer up, it produced thousands (if not tens of thousands!) of bubbles! After a week, it reduced to maybe hundreds. An improvement, but still not where it needs to be. I can't complain too much due to how cheap it was though

 

hi and welcome

 

Welcome to 3reef

 

I'm getting back into the hobby after being away for almost 5 years. The one thing I'm doing is taking my time. When I was a rookie, I added a bunch of fish at the same time without giving my system the time it needed. I woke up one morning and everything was dead. This hobby requires patience which I know is hard when you're a rookie. Hopefully, those damsels are hardy enough to weather the storm. Good luck.

 

damsels can be tough as nails... i once had a plumbing mishap which burned out all my pumps and i didn't have the money to repace... after about 5-6 months i realized that the buggers were still around and figured i should probably try to start replacing everything. So yeah, no circulation at all for like 6 months and didn't lose a one of em.