Problems with Overflow

[dhaberer]

I have 24 gallon nano tank and everything is looking great. The problem though is that about a month ago, it stopped working properly. The back chambers are the same level as the main tank so there isn't any overflow of the water. We're getting a large amount of buildup on top of the water that my wife has been manually removing daily. We can't seem to figure out what would have caused this to suddenly happen. The pump has great flow and we've checked everything else. We aren't experts by any means so we may just not understand how to take care of this properly. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Tony]

Have you tried cleaning out all the spondges and media and the pump as well? I know when i built ponds (im in landscaping) junk can built up in the pump or piping and everything runs fine but the blockage just slows everything right down. just my two cents.
Tony

 

[dhaberer]

actually yes. but as of now, we don't have a problem. This just gave my wife an excuse to get a bigger tank. We're in the process of setting up the new tank now and getting things moved over. Guess I'm not part of the nano club anymore, oh well.

 

[cbrownfish]

It sounds like your tank is merely generating waste at the surface, which is typical. Do you have any sort of protein skimmer? If not, get an actual skimmer or you can easily buy/make surface skimmer that fits over the intake.

http://www.jbjlighting.com/images/nano_ ... kimmer.jpg

 

[TimSchmidt]

Sounds like there is just too much water in the tank. I'm not a cube or aquapod kinda guy but I'm pretty sure the water levels should be a bit lower in the back chambers. Maybe I'm not getting a proper image in my head of what was going on.

 

[EDGRAY]

Sounds more like the oily jucky film you get when you dont have a surface skimmer so as kinda CBROWNFISH said get a surface skimmer and your problem will be solve there are two kinds of surface skimmer for cubes so is upto you to get one... the only difference is one stays in its place by suction and the other has a little arm that even if your pump is off wont fall unlike the suction one..

http://www.nanotuners.com/index.php?cPa ... fba32cab2d

EDDY

 

[TimSchmidt]

Oh yeah! The surface skimmers weren't always there. Ok, I was thinking there was a surface skimmer but the water levels were just above it. Ok...now I see.