Pump Noise

[Baltipal]

Hi all, I'm new here & just posted an introduction in the Welcome forum.
My first dumb question is concerning the air pump. We've got our first, brand new Marina Style 60 tank up & running with some Platys, Tetras & a sucker fish but I'm unsure if we've done the right thing in leaving the pump on continuously. I assumed I would have to to aerate the tank but it seems to have become noisier recently.
What should we be doing?

 

[mike455555]

the air pump? like the little vibrating box? or where it go's into the tank?

and welcome to the forum =]

 

[Blue Guppy]

Hi all, I'm new here & just posted an introduction in the Welcome forum.
My first dumb question is concerning the air pump. We've got our first, brand new Marina Style 60 tank up & running with some Platys, Tetras & a sucker fish but I'm unsure if we've done the right thing in leaving the pump on continuously. I assumed I would have to to aerate the tank but it seems to have become noisier recently.
What should we be doing?

Hello,

Pretty new myself.
And the first thing I changed was the air pump.

Depending on what size you need I would go for a Eheim pump..
IMO as near to silent as you can get

 

[mike455555]

you could suspend the air pump, often the noise is amplified by the surface its sitting on

 

[The Taffy Apple]

you could suspend the air pump, often the noise is amplified by the surface its sitting on

+1... i used to hang mine from a hook that was screwed into the inside top of my cabinet, i found that hanging it with an elastic band made it even quieter!

Terry.

 

[craig855s]

My solution was to put the pump inside a kiddies shoebox with sponge all round it (eggcrate shaped foam from inside triwall boxes) It made it silent, however part of me worried that the foam may catch fire one day as the pump wasnt exactly cold

 

[mike455555]

Many thanks for all the answers guys but I think I was more concerned about whether or not I was right to have it on all the time. Intuitively I would think running a small electrical devise continuously would be a mistake but I worry about aerating the tank. What do you more experienced guys do?

personally i dont use air pumps. iv got live plants in all of my tanks , the fish provide for them, they provide for the fish. (when i first started i had an airpump in my cold water but when i closed that down i took it out of use... now its making a small flow in a propagation tank