Hey GG no disrespect taken as I am just guessing what the other person said. I on the other hand firmly believe in airstones for a simple reason. The more bubbles your making the better off you are so if we take that and look at it like this: Air line has 1 hole and although you can get quite a bit of bubble action going on it can only spit out 1 bubble at a time. As for airstones are a have a porous surface which allows for multiple bubbles being released at the same time and then of course you need to look at what size airstone for what you are doing. I believe Prettygirl is talking about the small round stones about 1" tall and aprox the diameter of a dime. Those will work fine in a 5 gal DWC setup (I always used 2) as your only talking about a small amount of water. On the other hand when I was using my 55 gal res it required a trip to Petco to pick up a pair of 12" airstones and we had lots and lots of bubbles lol. Again I myself do not understand exactly what was meant by not using stones, I was just guessing on the meaning.
One more thing I wanted to ask was I saw GG had said something about res temps to be around 55-58 degrees, I had always read that it was 68 for the magic number.
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