- Energy efficient
- Reliable
- Nearly maintenance-free
This style of air pump is what I use to run my personal fish room as well as the retail store. Dean, Randy, and Zenzo also run this pump in their fish rooms. These air pumps are super reliable because they don't use traditional diaphragm technology. These are based on a piston like in a car engine. Because they don't vibrate to generate the air, they are much quieter than diaphragm pumps or blowers meant to put out the same amount of air. Many old fishkeepers have had theirs running for 20+ years without service or problems. The great thing about these pumps is they can be used in series. As your fish room expands you can add another piston pump to it and the air works together, unlike other air pumps that work against each other.
Customer Reviews
This thing has some power! I went from it to 3/4” hose, then to 1” pvc. Painted the pvc black with some spray paint. It looks professional and works crazy well! I hope to have it for 20+ years. The only thing I wish they also sold is the plumbing needed to include a bleeder valve, silencer, and air pressure guage. I’m worried about having too much back pressure on the pump, shortening the life of it. Right now I just used an extra individual metal valve and have it all the way open. The extra valve is loud though..
Hooked it up and it seems to work well, but I did not have enough air to power all of my tanks, over 40, with just 1 pump so I added a second and things seem to be going well. two of these replaced 15 diaphragm pumps.
This is my 5th purchase of this item.
I love it and they are really powerful.
I was able to unplug 12 diaphragm pumps by installing this linear piston air pump to a pvc loop. It’s much quieter than I thought it would be and is also smaller than I expected. I am very pleased with its performance so far and look forward to years of service from this pump.
I’m using this air pump in my fish room. So far it is running 15 aquariums with no problem. Ranging from 10-75 gallons. Each with 2 to 4 air lines. It never gets out of “breath”! I highly recommend this linear piston air pump.