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Hot or Cold Air? andypandy00@hotmail.com 09-27-2005
Posted by Edward Cowling London UK on September 28, 2005, 2:33 pm
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>I've just completed a new air ring main in the fish house connected to
>a new 45 lpm air compressor, this air compressor has an air inlet, and
>I thought it would be a good idea to connect a length of eheim 9mm
>tubing to the outside, so it can bring in fresh air, rather than the
>stale warm air in the fish house (30 degreeC) into the fish tanks in
>the fish house.
>

Personally I'd go with the warm air in the fish house. It's at tank
temperature, no one is going to be spraying anything in there, and
lets face it all the bubbles do is agitate the water a bit :-)

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Edward Cowling London UK

Posted by Frank on September 30, 2005, 12:51 am
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For quite a few years my basement was used as a fish room. Back then,
all the filters were air driven box, bubble-up hang ons, sponge, and
UGF. We used things like pollution pumps off cars, lawn mower motors
and refridgerator pumps hooded to elect. motors for our air pumps. Some
could be quite loud - I had a vain pump made by Gass. This thing pumped
over 300 lines of air into tanks, but was really loud so I installed it
in the basement window well (outside). Like NetMax pointed out, air
taken from outside will have volatile organic compounds (unburned
fuels) and other pollutants that can't be used or broke down by
bacteria. Like rain water, outside air should not be used unless it is
right after an initial downpour - I found that out the hard way. Winter
temps. would also tend to lower the room temp. a few
degrees............. Frank


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