James Croney Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Spent the last while frustrated and thinking about why my new airstone was only putting out bubbles near the top. I wanted a pretty 'bubble curtain' thing like I see online. 😄 ... Err, but I also wanted to do it for like $4 so i got a long thin single-barb airstone from LFS. A bit of googling later, I found out I might need to soak it in my tank for a day, or as some other guy on the internet said "up to a week for it to be optimum". Soaking my airstone now. Seeing if this helps. Posting here, because I searched for thing like airstone soaking and airstone uneven bubbles etc and didn't find anything. Just adding data to the pile. "go soak your airstone" sounds like a pretty nermy diss. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi_Aquatics Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 The ziss never clog airstones are great! They produce small even bubbles and they only cost like 4 bucks! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Croney Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Yup yup! Those little ziss airstones are great. Very clever no-clog mechanism. I run that and a USB Nano Air Pump on my little hexagon tank. There is a post somewhere in the forums about it. Its honestly the best airstone I have had. I do wonder where the air intake on the USB Nano Air Pump is though. I can't seem to find it. I suppose that is another topic though. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty.R Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) Hi James, I had a similar problem at one point, and all I did was soak it some boiling water for half an hour and then scrub the stone with a hard bristle brush or even a toothbrush. Make sure the check valve is in correctly too 👍 Edited January 31, 2021 by Frosty.R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medkow74 Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 The few larger air stones I've ever bought. Like the disk and/or bubble curtain type they've all said to soak them in the tank, I forget how long, before hooking them up to air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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