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Hey guys, do any of you know a bubble want with low back pressure?

The one i have in there now http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=12084&inm=1&N=2004+113405+113133

(it is in black though)

Has VERY high back pressure, i can hardly blow through it, and i feel really bad for my air pump (even though it is made for high back pressure)

Is there any good ones out there like that? (Personally, i love the smaller bubbles, but i dont want a zillion small bubbles)

Thanks

Hi
How recently did you purchase and begin to use the wand.
Note that it takes up to 48 hours to get the wand fully
working. Until then, there will be a large amount of
back pressure. If your pump is built to handle it, I would
not worry. If it is not, you can always purchase a gang
valve with one input and two outputs. Connect one to the
wand, and attach a 12 inch length of hose to the second
tap. Insert a pipe cleaner into the hose, and then open
the valve for the wand, and crack open the hose valve.
Adjust the hose valve (open/closed) so the wand works and
the back pressure escapes out the hose with the pipe
cleaner.

The pipe cleaner will act as a muffler to quiet any
hissing sound of the air escaping out the hose.

Frank


Last edited by FRANK at 04-Apr-2005 02:01

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I got the wand around a month ago.

ANd it isnt the back pressure that is the problem, it is the humming of the air pump that is annoying

well, the back pressure is the problem.. if you know what i mean

Hi,
Yes, I do know what you mean. Many, many, years ago, I had
one airstone and I connected it to the only pump I had at
that time. The back pressure was so much that the pump
actually clattered.
Good luck, or try to find a way to "sound proof" the pump
while not restricting the air flow into it and the cooling
of it.

Frank


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