Mugwump's Fish World

I have a 90g tank out in the dining room that I've been meaning to take down and move. Last night I was looking for some airline and looked in the cabinet under the tank. The fluval canister has been slowly leaking for who knows how long... maybe a month since I last looked at it. Nothing showed but its been getting into the nice hardwood floor underneath.

I pulled it out and hung an AC-110 on the tank for now. I should have had the canister filter in a bucket.

Now there is a humming noise upstairs. I'm trying to figure out if its coming from the AC-110 or the new air pump that I fired up yesterday. There is no background noise here so anything buzzing or humming in the house and it bugs me at bedtime.

...money's on the small air pump.....never seen a totally quiet one yet....try a sponge under it...or throw it in a coffee can full of old socks..... |^|..that'll knock the noise down...

Its a linear piston pump. I can make a sound proof box for it if I need to.

Really?  How does one go about doing that?  I have 4 medo linear pumps that I quit using because of the loud hum.  I'll need to use one of them this summer when I get my outside containers ready for little fishies.

Quote from: LizStreithorst on January 23, 2017, 06:15:46 PM
Really?  How does one go about doing that?  I have 4 medo linear pumps that I quit using because of the loud hum.  I'll need to use one of them this summer when I get my outside containers ready for little fishies.

.....a coffee can full of old socks......works for an air reliever line too......

A box lined with acoustic ceiling tiles works well.  It's much easier to deaden higher pitched sounds as apposed to lower.

Dennis

Quote from: BallAquatics on January 23, 2017, 06:49:21 PM
A box lined with acoustic ceiling tiles works well.  It's much easier to deaden higher pitched sounds as apposed to lower.

Dennis

....good idea too.... |^|....still need padding, etc because of the vibration......and needs to be vented...

I can pick up some acoustic foam... but for now I have a fish shipping box lined with Styrofoam, I'll stick in there and wrap the outside with a blanket and see how that does.

It should be self-cooling, drawing fresh air through itself like that.