In my humble opinion , there is a trade off between using a air bubble box filter in that suction wise , there is a limit to how much suction a air bubble box filter can achieve . Either you increase the air flow , which might cause more turbulence as well as noise or you lessen the filtration media to allow more water to flow into it . If you cant do this , you might need to add another air bubble filter box , upgrade to a larger model or upgrade your filtration setup .
I am guessing you are raising baby fish or shrimps and do not want them to be sucked into the filtration system if you want to use a pump base filtration system . It is then that you need to add an additional step to your tank maintenance , that is to siphon out the solid waste manually in your tank maintenance upkeep . Another way , a rather expensive direction if you are really serious , is to upgrade the tank to be connected to a sump system , in that , if ever the livestock is accidentally went into the overflow system , it might have a higher chance of survival in the sump tank but by going this route , every single livestock will have to content with the one water parameter that you set it to be , you cannot mix other livestock from another biotope of a different chemistry water parameter . Also , the risk of a cross contamination from disease is high as every tank is connected to a single sump .
Hope this helps !
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