Sneaky Leak

[wallace]

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.

[Mugwump]

...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...

[wallace]

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

[LizStreithorst]

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.

[Mugwump]

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......

[BallAquatics]

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

Dennis

[Mugwump]

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...

[wallace]

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.