The air pump can be quiet but the air bubbles may make even more noise than your lily pipe.
Hi
Need some advice here.
I am currently using a set of lilypipe outlet, the thing here is when i raise it slightly above water level, it creates a lot of splashing sound. But if i submerged it too much, water agitation reduces and protein film forms.
I have tried to compromise on the position but i cannot seem to find a suitable quiet yet agitating water surface position.
Will an airpump and air stone solve my problem with protein film? Assuming i do not want to get a skimmer.
If yes to above, then where can i get a air pump that it quiet enough?
thanks in advance.
The air pump can be quiet but the air bubbles may make even more noise than your lily pipe.
Hi Navanod, thanks for your reply.
Sigh, never a one stop solution, right?
Yes. And the air bubbles will get rid of protein film, but introduce calcium stains to your glass due to sprays. Hahaha!
If you see my thread in the equipment forum, I'm also just starting to venture into air pumps after hating it for years.
My concerns are with noise, and spray of water droplets. Unfortunately, the solutions to those would also prevent the bubbles from disrupting the surface protein film!
Truly no one stop solution!!
really hard to strike that balance....
Popping air bubbles near the water surface can be heard a mile away, and stray water from it can shoot very high. lol.
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haha, tetrakid, you must be one of the ten brothers.
Seriously, jokes aside, you can try this :-
Get a small air pump with an air hose fitted and place the air outlet sideways near the water surface with a clip. Notice the loud bubbling sound and upward splattering of stray water?
I did it for my Daphnia culture tank during an experimentation. But the noise is unbearablly loud, so I abandoned the experiment.
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The lily pipe should have vortex that sucks the protein scum downwards. At least on mine it does.
In addition to that, I also run air stone at night. But I use the smallest air stone to avoid loud bubbles & violent splashing.
The flow from the lily pipe also disperses the bubbles into the middle of the tank, away from the tank glass wall. Never had issue with protein film issue.
Why is protein film bad? is it harmful?
hencpu, that looks like an elegant solution indeed!
Wow. Huge vortex. Normally I see only small ones hee.
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Protein surface happens very often. Use of a surface skimmer is one good solution. In certain hang-on filters, there is sometimes a built-in skimmer attached. For those who are using a top filter, it is advisable to get a separate surface skimmer attachment which is easily fitted to the vertical water inlet pipe.
A surface skimmer works by using part of the suction power of the filter to draw in the surface film, mixing it with the incoming water, filtered and discharging it back via the water outlet.
But with a hang-on filter properly used, there should be no need for any surface skimming, since there should be no skin to skim.
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That is a very very nice air stone... Look very very 'atas'.. Must be not very cheap.. Haha...
I have used glassware before but when the algae, diatoms, etc all starts attaching themselves there.. It looks really really dirty... Any tricks for maintaining it 'clean look'?
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