Re: need air-pump advice...which to get for my fish room

[Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>]

At 11:49 PM 6/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:

> I talk to many people in my local aquarium society and I am getting "for large
> output a blower is the only way to fly"
>
> Comments??


I have a Gast blower and some time ago replaced in with a linear piston 
pump. The latter blows the blower away (pun IS intended). Blowers have high 
output but low pressure, so don't do well for larger tanks and for 
aerating  barrels etc. My linear piston pump is fantastic. It provides all 
the air I can use and more. Currently it's running over 100 tanks and gets 
air easily to the bottom of my 300 gal storage tank, which is about 6' deep.

Barry

Barry J. Cooper, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University
Adjunct faculty, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University
Home address: 27505 Riggs Hill Rd., Sweet Home, OR 97386 (bjc3 at cornell_edu)


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