parotet
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Hi all
I want to buy an air pump for one of my tanks. It will be a temporary equipment. I want it because I am using lily pipes and when I will be on holidays, no one will be able to raise the lily pipes for me. I have noticed that the water quality, especially in summer, decreases without night aeration... so switching an air pump to a timer during non-CO2 hours would be a possible solution.
Now the question is... I have read that it doesn't matter the bubble size and that oxygenation is much more important due to the bubbles breaking the water surface than to the O2 dissolving on the water. There's something I don't really get here, and as far as I understand the Twinstar produces micro O2 bubbles that contribute to water oxygenation, isn't it? I have lately seen some kind of air stones that produce super fine bubbles (at least that's what they say!). So, does it make sense to try them? I have also a Chinese cheapo ceramic CO2 diffuser that would be able to do something similar, ins't it?
Jordi
I want to buy an air pump for one of my tanks. It will be a temporary equipment. I want it because I am using lily pipes and when I will be on holidays, no one will be able to raise the lily pipes for me. I have noticed that the water quality, especially in summer, decreases without night aeration... so switching an air pump to a timer during non-CO2 hours would be a possible solution.
Now the question is... I have read that it doesn't matter the bubble size and that oxygenation is much more important due to the bubbles breaking the water surface than to the O2 dissolving on the water. There's something I don't really get here, and as far as I understand the Twinstar produces micro O2 bubbles that contribute to water oxygenation, isn't it? I have lately seen some kind of air stones that produce super fine bubbles (at least that's what they say!). So, does it make sense to try them? I have also a Chinese cheapo ceramic CO2 diffuser that would be able to do something similar, ins't it?
Jordi