sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
I figured DIY would be the best bet since that's eventually what will probably have to be done.
But having turned my skimmer off while I was doing a water change, everything else was on (including the return), I noticed just how quiet my fish room was (this is with multiple tanks too!). My pumps are all but quiet as can be, my overflows are dead silent (ok maybe a trickle of sound), but the big stick in my ass is the skimmer(s). Also remembering a trip to Arnold's place his skimmer was almost silent as well, then I remembered he doesn't run a skimmer.
I think some of it is the hum of the pump, that 60 hertz hum you can hear through walls and floors and such, but also as skimmers get "better" in sucking in more air, they make a horrid amount of noise too as they suck in the noise.
My Bubble Master 250 (2 pumps to deal with!) sucks in air like nobody's business, they even have a "silencer" which is basically a tube with some cotton swab looking material stuffed in it, and that changes the slurping of air to more of a deep bass speaker, doesn't really seem quieter at all it just changed the sound type from one to another.
So anyone have ideas, solutions, neat tricks to quiet them suckers down?
But having turned my skimmer off while I was doing a water change, everything else was on (including the return), I noticed just how quiet my fish room was (this is with multiple tanks too!). My pumps are all but quiet as can be, my overflows are dead silent (ok maybe a trickle of sound), but the big stick in my ass is the skimmer(s). Also remembering a trip to Arnold's place his skimmer was almost silent as well, then I remembered he doesn't run a skimmer.
I think some of it is the hum of the pump, that 60 hertz hum you can hear through walls and floors and such, but also as skimmers get "better" in sucking in more air, they make a horrid amount of noise too as they suck in the noise.
My Bubble Master 250 (2 pumps to deal with!) sucks in air like nobody's business, they even have a "silencer" which is basically a tube with some cotton swab looking material stuffed in it, and that changes the slurping of air to more of a deep bass speaker, doesn't really seem quieter at all it just changed the sound type from one to another.
So anyone have ideas, solutions, neat tricks to quiet them suckers down?