I was having a small problem with bubbles in my DT and was thinking it was due to the fact that i had my locline out of the water and it was sucking in some air. So i reworked my return lines and when i turned on the pump it was bubble city i know have way more micro bubbles. will they go away could it just be from turning the pump back on? Does this happen to any one else?
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Do you have any salt creep on any of your joints in your return line? If so, that's probably where the air is coming from. Look in your sump and see if you have any bubbles getting sucked into your pump.
I did have some salt on the locline when it was out of the water, that is why i made the change. It looks like it has cleared up some. I think it may have been just where i turned the pump back on and the bubbles just need time to work them selfs out. I should know for sure when the lights come back on in the morning.
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usually microbubbles is not indicative of a "leak" in a water return line, but instead a supply to the pump. What is your sump setup? Skimmer?
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ckwatson;104861 wrote: I am using a quiteone pump and a coralife 65. the water is about 4-5 inches from the top of the return pump
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So, this pic doesnt really represent you operating levels, right? The only thing I guess I could see is that the water that is overflowing from the skimmer section could be creating bubbles that are then sucked in by the return, chopped up, and shot into the tank. Try turning the return pump so the intake faces away from the skimmer section, putting a prefiletr on the reurun pump, or maybe both, and see if that helps.
yes the operating levels are much higher and the right chamber is now a fuge with water flowing from it back into the return section, also now the intake on the pump is facing the back. I am going to check it when i get home it looked pretty good this morning i think the bubbles where just being recirculated and needed some time to come to the surface and pop
It can take a few minutes for air from the return lines to purge. If this continues for over an hour I would take a little 100% silicon and go around your joints on your return line. If air is entering, the silicon will seal it. You could wait as usually slime and salt clog up any holes in the return. Assuming your return pump is under 4" or more of water (as in 4" completely over the pump or around 8" total) you shouldn't be drawing air in from a vortex. You could be getting some bubbles from your fuge section pouring into the return area but you should be able to see this.
Just a note about your fuge setup, you may want to pour some water from your drain in there as well. Fuges are great filtration systems but you have designed it in such a way that it won't really filter as well as it could. Probably makes a good POD farm though.
Just a note about your fuge setup, you may want to pour some water from your drain in there as well. Fuges are great filtration systems but you have designed it in such a way that it won't really filter as well as it could. Probably makes a good POD farm though.
