I recently bought a fish 125g tank, which is placed in my room. After much research, I decided to get an eheim canister for it's quietness (never used a canister filter before). After hooking it up, the canister works great and is VERY quiet, but the water shooting from the spray bar and hitting the water keeps me up at night. I could drown the spray bar under water, but I read that this is the only way to get oxygen into the fish tank. Is there any way to stop the noise while keeping my tank oxygenated as well? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Hope this isn't a dumb question.
Need Help With Noise
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How exactly can you adjust it? As far as I know I can only twist the angles that it sprays at :/ sorry for the ingorance and stupidity, I'm new to canister.
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You can rotate the spray bar so the holes face at a bit of an angle so that it ripples across the surface of the water.
Or you can completely submerge the spray bar, then rotate it till the holes face upward slightly to ripple the surface of the water.
The slight ripples will keep your water agitated somewhat and this will help aerate your tank enough and allow sufficient oxygen exchange for your fish.
Which model Eheim filter did you get?
You can rotate the spray bar so the holes face at a bit of an angle so that it ripples across the surface of the water.
Or you can completely submerge the spray bar, then rotate it till the holes face upward slightly to ripple the surface of the water.
The slight ripples will keep your water agitated somewhat and this will help aerate your tank enough and allow sufficient oxygen exchange for your fish.
Which model Eheim filter did you get?
I got the eheim pro 3 2075. Thanks for the advice, I'm gonna try the submerging idea and shooting it upwards right now lol.
Question, do bubbles need to be created or just as long as water ripples are present does oxygen get mixed in?
water ripples
when you break the surface tension there's gas exchange between the water and the air
when you break the surface tension there's gas exchange between the water and the air
I've been usiong canisters for years and the submerge method works great! Go with that. Keeps them quiet as ever.
Thanks for the information guys! I always thought there needed to be bubbles in order for O2 to mix in. I completely submerged the spray bar so it's a lot quieter, yet causes a ripple halfway across the tank.