Fish Folk Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Well… recovering from a ruptured / repaired achilles has been a bit hard on the hobby. I’m relegated to literally crawling down into the basement with crutches and back up again to care for 16+ tanks 2x a day. HOWEVER! Today I painstakingly replaced a central air pump with this pondmaster (Danner) pump… I did find a problem in one of the lines (likely a kink up above the drop ceiling somewhere), but all of the other valves worked great. Here are just a few… As a sad testament to what a Frankenstein this hobby can be over years, here is the pile of the now obsolete air pumps this one replaces… Now if i could just figure out that one problematic line… 🩼🩼🧐 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tihshho Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Hows it feel to have a single pump? I know how I felt getting rid of tons of pumps, it was phenomenal! Any reason why you didn't go with a linear air piston? Have you considered buying a second as a backup? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted May 6, 2022 Author Share Posted May 6, 2022 (edited) On 5/6/2022 at 12:40 PM, Tihshho said: Hows it feel to have a single pump? I know how I felt getting rid of tons of pumps, it was phenomenal! Any reason why you didn't go with a linear air piston? Have you considered buying a second as a backup? It feels nice to have a single pump! I will keep a tub of these old diaphragm pumps in case of some emergency. The whole basement is a lot quieter. I didn't go with the Linear Piston only because I was able to get this pump through my LFS by trading them fish I breed. I got it for a lowered cost, plus helped out my community of aquarists by getting them fish bred in our local water. On some bad advice from a local hobbyist, I had bought this pump on Amazon to run everything... Nope. Just nope. It ran only about 1/2 of them. I will keep this one, though, to act as a (partial) backup as well. I'd say -- if you can reasonably afford a Linear Piston Air Pump, go for it! Someday I may try to do this right and instal some PVC airline loops around the basement rooms. For now, I'm OK with running lines up through the drop ceiling. Edited May 6, 2022 by Fish Folk 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Burke Posted May 6, 2022 Share Posted May 6, 2022 Nice! I’m contemplating getting a 75 gallon tank, but all the possible strategies involve going to 3 tanks vs 4 now. What is the output on the pond master? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted May 7, 2022 Author Share Posted May 7, 2022 Found the kink! All fixed. One pump running everything. Pondmaster & Supreme by Danner Model AP-40 / 5,000 gallons / 10 feet depth / Airflow inches 2,900 / 40 watts 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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