Hey guys. We got our Bermuda Rouge skimmer up and running. It's been running since monday night. I was told to just run the skimmer, with the gate wide open for the first few days, to let a nice layer of slime build up inside the skimmer. I've done that, and was planning on starting to tweak the skimmer this weekend, and work on getting it dialed in.
This is our first skimmer, so I don't really know how one is supposed to work, or what to expect from one. Bassically I just want to know, how should it behave? What would be ideal? How much skimmate/foam/water should I expect to be accumilating in the collection cup/bucket for the over-flow?
Right now I'm not getting much in our collection cup. In the last two days, it's accumilated about a 1/4" of nasty brown water/skimmate (not quite enough to need the over-flow.). I never see any of the foam inside the skimmer, unless I take the cover of the collection cup off, and look down inside the neck into the skimmer. Should the foam be flowing up in the neck? I've seen it come up into the neck once or twice. It seems like the level goes up and down on it's own, without any kind of adjustment to the gate.
Anyway, I'm just looking for some suggestions/opinions on how I should adjust the skimmer in the next couple days.
-RYknow
This is our first skimmer, so I don't really know how one is supposed to work, or what to expect from one. Bassically I just want to know, how should it behave? What would be ideal? How much skimmate/foam/water should I expect to be accumilating in the collection cup/bucket for the over-flow?
Right now I'm not getting much in our collection cup. In the last two days, it's accumilated about a 1/4" of nasty brown water/skimmate (not quite enough to need the over-flow.). I never see any of the foam inside the skimmer, unless I take the cover of the collection cup off, and look down inside the neck into the skimmer. Should the foam be flowing up in the neck? I've seen it come up into the neck once or twice. It seems like the level goes up and down on it's own, without any kind of adjustment to the gate.
Anyway, I'm just looking for some suggestions/opinions on how I should adjust the skimmer in the next couple days.
-RYknow