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    Tweaking the Air Lift

    Having had the system running for a while now I have been meaning to reduce the lift of the "air lift pump".
    This was not as easy as you might think given the nature of my system, so I kept putting it off.
    However, finally got round to it today as ideal to do in the Winter when fish aren't feeding and a few hours with everything shut down is neither here nor there.
    So I was only able to reduce the lift by about 5cm, so you might think why bother? Well, with my Winter 25W air pump the flow rate has increased significantly - rough flow measuring suggests that in this case "significantly" is easily a 50% increase!
    Just goes to show that with air lifts, lift height is everything!

    Of course the Winter air pump is relatively weedy and I won't expect anything like the same % increase with the Summer one - but every little helps



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    Sounds like a good days work,so how far off the water level now UK?
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    Quote Originally Posted by john1 View Post
    Sounds like a good days work,so how far off the water level now UK?
    It's not quite that simple with my system because the air lift is half way throught the filter bays - see diagram (back up air pump was actually replaced in the build with a conventional small pump as it can deal with greater head variations).

    So, with the flow stopped the height difference is about 5cm.
    However, with it running there is a drop on the supply side to give about 10cm of lift to top of outlet water level.
    If I lower the outlet any further it would be counter productive - like I said, my installation is unusual!

    Oh, and I have tweaked it further to have 15 baskets and almost full bypass of moving bed as needed.
    Last edited by Ukzero; 10-01-2023 at 09:16 AM.
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    I have seen your system on you tube when I was doing my own air lift and very impressive.
    Must say I like the standpipes, old school but work great
    John

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