Millions of Micro bubbles HELP!!!!!

250gallon · 09-01-2006, 10:17 PM

Hello Everyone,

I have a 250 gallon setup with a wet/dry sump and the skimmer is in the sump. I had the bubble problem under control when I had a fish do a nemo and kill the pump. So I went and got a new pump which is the same one as the one that died. Now I have millions of micro bubbles in the whole tank and it has been 3 0r 4 months running. At first I thought it was just because it was new but by now it should have calmed down I would think.

The dirty water goes into the filter system via two overflow boxes and then the skimmer is in the clean water taking the water there and going thru the skimmer and drops right back down into the clean part of the sump and then get sucked out of the sump by the pump and gets blown back up to the tank as clean water with a million micro bubbles. I can take pics of everything if needed.

Any HELP would be great. If I can not get it fixed I am thinking of changing the whole filter system and skimmer out to something that will cause less micro bubbles.

Thanks in advance.

Jason McKenzie · 09-04-2006, 10:35 AM

It sounds like one of your fittings may have a leak, causing it to suck air. What I have done in the past is. All joints between plumbing parts I rap with electrical tape. I watch each time a rape another joint to see if the bubble stop. This can take some time depending on how many joints you have.

It could also be the water exiting the skimmer is full of air bubbles and going into the main tank before the bubbles have dissipated. Try to have the out going water from the skimmer go through some filter floss or something first?

J

250gallon · 09-04-2006, 09:38 PM

Thanks I will try all of the above.

trizzot · 09-05-2006, 02:51 AM

try a sponge in front of your return pump.

250gallon · 09-07-2006, 10:28 AM

It is not coming from the skimmer since I thought that was the problem so I turned it off and still having the same problem. So I put tape on all the joints that were apart and or have a clamp on it and still have the problem.

I think it is time for me to get a new filter system and skimmer and try something different.

LVReefer · 09-11-2006, 04:04 PM

If indeed nothing has changed other than your pump them logic would point to that as the culprit. Is it an external or an internal pump?