Is a eheim skim 350 able to provide enough o2?

[philipraposo1982]

I have a eheim canister filter with a lily pipe that I have always kept the pipe a bit out of the water to provide surface agitation.

Now that I run a skim350 all the time do I still need to keep my Lilly pipe out of the water? Or can I put it under the surface to create the vortex thing I see on other tanks?

I want to make sure my 75g has enough oxygen.

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[Wisey]

I personally find that the Skim350 puts a lot of oxygen bubbles in to the water. I now run mine on a timer so that it is not on when the CO2 is on to reduce off-gassing during the photoperiod. It switches on at lights off, runs overnight for a few hours, then switches off early morning, then runs for a few hours in the middle of the day before switching off again at lights on.

 

[john dory]

The ehiem skimmer will create lots of oxygen bubbles when running at full power.
Backing it off reduces the bubbles....and once the sponge collects a layer of mulm....eliminates them.

 

[Marc1t]

I personally find that the Skim350 puts a lot of oxygen bubbles in to the water. I now run mine on a timer so that it is not on when the CO2 is on to reduce off-gassing during the photoperiod. It switches on at lights off, runs overnight for a few hours, then switches off early morning, then runs for a few hours in the middle of the day before switching off again at lights on.

Interesting! I have mine running pretty much all the time but I might switch it off during the Co2 on time to see if it makes a difference cheers.
Also the skimmer provides a little extra flow in the aquarium.

 

[philipraposo1982]

I guess I will keep doing what I am doing. I am still slowly pushing my co2 levels as high as I can go without stressing my pets. Keeping more agitation will only help that.

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