I have a bubble wall for my tank and on the packiging it said that if the bubbles ever started to falter to take a needle and poke more holes in it. Well I did that and now its skipping and making this really annoying noise. I cant record the noise but heres what it is doing...



Its not the Pump I allready checked that. Any Ideas how to make it stop?

The bubble walls are made with extremely fine holes or actually a porous material - making a fine mist of bubbles. Believe it or not, a pin make extremely large holes - in comparison to the general porous material. Whenever air can escape from an easier/larger place rather than be forced through a smaller hole it will. The air will always go out the larger holes now - and not out the smaller ones.

If you were to poke more holes along the bubble wall that match the larger holes you made in the one spot - evenly distributed all along the wand, you will get large bubbles that are relatively symetrical along the length of it. But you will probably never be able to get the fine mist of bubbles again with that wand. Replacement is your other option.

When a bubble wand cloggs from algae, one of the easiest methods to clean it is to rub as much off as you can with an aquarium cleaner sponge and then soak in hydrogen peroxide.

Thank you Daryl! Ill try the distributing of the holes more evenly and do the Hydrogen soak when they start to clog. Oddly enough they play in this wall of bubbles way more then they did when it was the mist. Its funny to watch, they race to the blue wand through the bubble wall. Ill try to get a video of it.

I have a couple of toothbrushes JUST for cleaning fish tank stuff!! (NOT old used ones of course!!) Sometimes I find a good scrubbin' helps!