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recommendations for moving up from dinky air pumps ?


My mini fish-room has grown to the point where my powered-by-a-few-std-aquarium-air-pumps air supply is wheezing and dangerously marginal ....if a sponge filter isn't within an inch of the surface, there's no bubble action, and I have to fiddle around "tuning" the depth of all the spongers regularly to keep everything going ... which is a real nuisance and clearly sub-optimal for all the little guys in my care, since some days they have working filtration, and some days they don't. 

So I think it's probably time for me to think seriously about moving up to the next level of gear, which based on some k-talk archives and other internet searching would seem to be a linear air pump. Leading brands seem to be Gast and Sweetwater, and Jehmco has some [no brand-name given] Japanese models that are advertised as being very high quality as well.

Anybody have any thoughts and experiences with any of these (or alternatives) to share, before I bite the bullet ?

basic requirements:
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* power 50-60 "containers" of various sorts, mostly sponge filters at the moment, but I plan on building some "deBruyn drip filters" soon, although AFAIK the air needs of the latter are comparable to standard sponge filters
* I want the unit indoors in the mini-fishroom itself, so it needs to not add appreciable noise to a utility room size place that already has a Whole Lot of Bubblin' Goin' On. (Didn't Elvis sing that? Or maybe it was on the live CD from the Bob Marley/Southern Culture on the Skids/Ventures gig a few years ago. My memory is becoming Reaganesque.)
* price is of course something of an object 

TIA

Doug Dame
Interlachen FL
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"It was the best little killie fish-room in Interlachen,
   it was probably the worst one too, 
   since it's most likerly [sic] the only one in town."
      - Gaffer McGahee 
("A Tail of Two Fishes", Charles Dickens, 1857)

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