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New skimmer gone crazy?

April 26, 2017crazy gone skimmer

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New skimmer gone crazy?

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4/14/06 I am setting up my new 75 reef ready tank, and ordered an AquaC EV-120. It arrived broken (thanks UPS…) and after a month and a half, I finally have a new, working skimmer. The whole time I was waiting, the tank had been set up and was running fine. It had 15lbs of semi-cured Tonga deepwater rock and a 2-3 inch bed of sugar size sand. I did not wash the sand, I should note. After just a day, the skimmer started skimming like crazy. However, it was skimming out fairly clear water. The water in the tank is a bit cloudy from the silt that has settled out and occasionally gets kick