best/quietest air pump!

DoctorDelta9

DoctorDelta9

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What are y'all using for air pumps. I hear horror stories about the diaphragm air pumps, I'm looking at linear from danner. Amy experiences? I need quiet...shhhh.
Thanks in advance!
 
DoctorDelta9

DoctorDelta9

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After much research I went with the alita AL-60, and also the round air stones. I will post after I hook it up with full report
 
torontoke

torontoke

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Air pumps make almost zero noise and much more bubbles if they are hanging in the air as opposed to sitting on a hard surface whether they have rubber feet or not.
I used a coat hanger to bend up a lil bracket that i attached to a screw in hook.
U cant even tell my pump is running except the sound of all the extra bubbles.
Just my two cents
Good luck
 
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OneHitDone

OneHitDone

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I would be more worried about the bubbling groans than the actual air pump also.
I had a 6 bucket "root spa" type setup going in a closet and you could here the bubbles pretty much through the whole floor of my house lol
 
beepotron

beepotron

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The bubbling is much louder than the pump running as long as you get a decent pump (Hailea V-series are mostly my favorite for now)... I combat the noisy buckets by wrapping them with silentcoat (car sound deadening, which is also reflective silver)... You could use dynamat if you have cash to splash.
 
vostok

vostok

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This is a good question that I should have asked years ago, perhaps even then in a fish collectors forum, as the sucker I used for years is like a 7 47 outside,
indeed I suffered with it, but not before insulating it in a 6 inch polystyrene housing ..lol I have upgraded since and often forget its on...so loudless
 
DoctorDelta9

DoctorDelta9

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Love the Alita AL-60. Super quiet. Runs a bit hot but i have a long extension hose pre-manifold so the heat dissipates. Would def. recommend. Great almost overpowering output using alita sintered air stones x8 in dwc.
 
Flagg420

Flagg420

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Well.... shit.... Turns out this is what I have... (The 40lpm actually) came with my undercurrent system, which I don't have room to use just now.... So I use the pump on a 12 pipe manifold and run it on 6 DWC buckets, dual stoned on 2x4 cylinders.....

So... .... Am I maxed? Or can I add another 4 lines on this pump without any probs?

I ask cuz I was gonna buy a second pump, only to find the one I like... is 150-200 bucks... I would put my $300 chiller ahead of the new air pump in such case...
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Flagg420 said:
Well.... shit.... Turns out this is what I have... (The 40lpm actually) came with my undercurrent system, which I don't have room to use just now.... So I use the pump on a 12 pipe manifold and run it on 6 DWC buckets, dual stoned on 2x4 cylinders.....

So... .... Am I maxed? Or can I add another 4 lines on this pump without any probs?

I ask cuz I was gonna buy a second pump, only to find the one I like... is 150-200 bucks... I would put my $300 chiller ahead of the new air pump in such case...
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Definitely get the chiller first. Then, plumb the outlet of your waterpump to a manifold that delivers water to each tubsite. As long as that water falls (waterfalls, get it?!) from above the surface of the water in the tubsite, you'll have better oxygenation than an airpump and stone setup. Then you can throw away the whole shrimp system. I did this years ago and my plants are fine.
 
Flagg420

Flagg420

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I get the chiller, and I am breaking out the UC system, and dropping the 5gal buckets for the totes :) It uses both methods...

I do want to DIY myself a 2nd 5gal bucket res onto one of my buckets, and make a little one bucket one res RDWC mini system.... but thats a play item, lol.
 
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