Air stone under intake = no good?

[Aqualoon]

Having some issues with one of my canisters, only thing I added recently is an 18" airstone as during the summer my tank runs a tad hotter. To add it without it standing out horribly bad I had to re-scape the tank. To take it out I will have to move a ton of rockwork so would rather ask here and get some other opinions.

It's making a crackling type noise, and this one has been a tad finicky in the past when I added a new intake to it (was making the same type of noise).

Thoughts?

 

[JML1997]

If it's a canister, the air is just going through the filter.. I'd just move it to a different spot, save you the trouble of worrying about the crackling noise.

 

[geodehunter]

Are the bubbles from your airstone going into your intake? If so you might want to move your airstone.

 

[jwalkerafc7]

if its crackling most likely the air is getting into the canister causing the noise. like they said, move your intake or airstone.

 

[nfored]

Depending on your canister and you cleaning regimen you could end up with an air locked canister, or have a problem on power outages.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

Air in the filter is the worst nightmare of all canister users besides leaking

 

[Jon M]

Yeah, as everyone already said I'd move it. Even if you can stand the sound it makes you don't want the air running through your canister messing anything up. I had a curtain under a HOB intake in my old 55g and for like a day or two I was like "dammit why is that hob so fricken' loud!" lol. Well moved the air curtain and wala, silent.

 

[Motoxer777]

move the air stone

 

[Bderick67]

Well I am going to assume you don't have the air bubbles going into the intake, as this would be an obvious problem. What brand/type canister do you have?

 

[Aqualoon]

Well I am going to assume you don't have the air bubbles going into the intake, as this would be an obvious problem.

You'd like to think that someone who has been registered on MFK for 2 years and has over 1k posts wouldn't do this - but you would be wrong.

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