beckett skimmer problems please help!!!

[ryan_lalande]

have a beckett skimmer. i boiught it years ago and never used it. its a diy model so it could very well be a p.o.s . but i got it for almsot nothing

anyways

i fired it up today, and it leaks. i can solve that problem. the other problem is the beckett itself. the beckett chamber were the actuall beckett is stored, slowly fills up with water. i guess i would have to psot a pic of this for any of you to understand, but ill try and explain.
i have never used a becket before or seen one running so thats why i am confued.
there is a two inch tube, and a 6 inch tube both acrylic. one is were the water drop down from the beckett injector, the other is the skimmer body. the drop tube never fills with water..there is just a steady jet of water scorching through it.

1) either way, should the beckett chamber be slowly filling up with water?

2)should the drop tube not be filling up with water, and all i should see is a stream of water scorching through it?

i am getting alot of bubbles thankfully, but the turbulance is crazy.

any help would be really appreciated!

 

[Achilles Tang]

Hi Ryan

I have a DIY beckett skimmer too, based on af648.

The beckett WILL leak water out of the 4 holes into the chamber. But the water level will stop right at the edge of the 4 holes on the beckett. where it gets sucked down again with air.

It's nothing to worry about.

You have to monitor the chamber because if you see a jet of bubbles coming out from one hole, you know its time to disassemble and clean the beckett because something's stuck in it. eg. tiny snail.

When you mean the drop tube... you mean the tube below the beckett chamber?

It is the foam water produced by the beckett that you see rushing through the tube and exiting into the reaction chamber.

Which part of the turbulence are you worried about? In the drop tube? In the reaction chamber?