air or no air?

[midnight]

not sure if theres a poll like this already

do you have an air pump going on your tank/tanks?

 

[midnight]

i picked yes
i have air going on all my tanks 55g and over

 

[Yoji_嬰孩]

No, I dont have them in any of my tanks as I like my systems to be crystal clear without some distracting wall of bubbles coming out of nowhere.... I have plenty of surface agitation from my filtration returns and oxygen levels are high so no need for them.

 

[Mystix212]

Bubbles iritate me. Bubbles create unwanted noise and seem to waste tank space. (fish dont usually swim thru the bubbles).

 

[fishdance]

For a very small outlay, air makes an excellent backup support system. I have quite a few tanks, mostly on large and efficient central filters yet they all have air/box/sponge filters.

 

[BushFishRox]

I just put air in my tank, because when my 220 finally gets delivered I plan on having bubbles walls on the sides of the tank....

 

[princess]

i have bubbles in my 100G tank... they are starting to annoy me and look childish...but its good really because i'm planning on using the pump to power my skimmer

but i will get a powerhead for the 100G

in my 10gallon tank with 2 bronze cory....i like the bubbles because they like to swim into them and they don't bother me as much

 

[rallysman]

on tanks with canister filters only I attach a pump to the return side for surface agitation. Other than that my tanks are air pump free.

 

[FSM]

I don't have an air pump on my 75. I figured it gets pretty good oxygenation from the wet/dry, and I have lots of surface agitation.

 

[Titania]

I don't have any air on any of my show tanks. I do have a large air pump to run all of the sponge filters in my breeder tanks in the basement, though. Much cheaper than running a ton of HOB filters.