Reddit reviews Tetra Whisper AP300 Aquarium Air Pump, for Deep Water Applications
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POWERFUL: Tetra brand’s most powerful line of air pumps add dramatic bubble effects to customize your aquarium.VERSATILE: One pump delivers air to all your powered accessories.RELIABLE: Never buy another pump or worry about oxygen in the water.LIFETIME GUARANTEE: The advanced technology and exacting quality standards of this product allow us to offer a limited lifetime warranty (see product packaging for details).DEEP-WATER CAPABILITIES: Designed for tanks with significant back pressure – pumps air down to 8 feet deep.
Update 2: I just noticed my pump was barely working and found it was clogged with all kinds of gunk (although I had cleaned it the day before). Do any of you think that the the temporary reduction in DO from the pump not functioning for a day could be enough to kill one of my fish, even though I have supplemental O2? The fish has cloudy eyes if that is any indication.
I have the pump working again and will continue monitoring.
Even expensive and quiet aquarium pumps are nowhere near the lpm/gph of the one linked above. My laser-cutter's air pump is a 1100 gph one which translates to 70 lpm.
The top-of-the-line, and far quieter, Whisper-300 from Tetra produces about 10 lpm, I have 4 of them on my 600-gallon aquarium... I tried several air-pumps before choosing the Tetra for its quietness (the laser is in the garage, I don't care about the noise. The aquarium is in the living-room wall. I do care about noise there :)
Now, whether you need more than a Whisper-300 can deliver, I don't know. My limited understanding is that the better the air delivery, the better you can do deep cuts, up until the air-delivery is producing a detrimental cooling effect. That's why I went big, and put a valve on it to adjust the pressure.
At the moment, I'm letting the air go full-blast. I'll start characterising the laser when my macken-knock-off power-meter arrives and part of that is going to be air-assist effects.