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cabrego · 06/18/2009, 01:34 PM

I was having a similar issue with my euro reef RS 135, just started over flowing one day.

Infact it would overflow within a minute or two of turning it on, making it quite useless at the time.

I baned my head around trying to figure out what was different. I tried lowering the water level, changing flow, etc.

At the time I was running it without the air valve too.

I finally fixed the problem by attaching the air valve , and closing it all the way. Then just cracking the air valve open to allow air and finding the sweet spot that way. Essentially too much air was causing my skimmer to over flow, very counter intuitive for me to understand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpYpTatXFuk

Here is a video of my troubleshooting. It sould like mine is a bit worse than yours. Although, mine started off like yours.

06/18/2009, 01:34 PM	#11
cabrego Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: McAllen,TX Posts: 720	I was having a similar issue with my euro reef RS 135, just started over flowing one day. Infact it would overflow within a minute or two of turning it on, making it quite useless at the time. I baned my head around trying to figure out what was different. I tried lowering the water level, changing flow, etc. At the time I was running it without the air valve too. I finally fixed the problem by attaching the air valve , and closing it all the way. Then just cracking the air valve open to allow air and finding the sweet spot that way. Essentially too much air was causing my skimmer to over flow, very counter intuitive for me to understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpYpTatXFuk Here is a video of my troubleshooting. It sould like mine is a bit worse than yours. Although, mine started off like yours.