"Andy Peteman" wrote in message
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but i imagine you've guessed my problem ,
although the filte is not loud or does not seem to be during the day ,
when it comes to the dead of night , i can hear it , hummmmmmmmmmming away
in the back ground , i can see it becoming a bugbear .

And the prime reason I never had a tank in my bedroom. :-) I have some
Aquaclears that are almost dead silent unless you're real close to them.

.........so i have too options
, i have a nice little suitable space downstairs in my front room , where
i can put the tank .

Or would it be possible to put the filter on a timer so that when the
light goes off on the tank the filter turns off , this i would happen
during say 12am - 7am , for 7 hours, but i'm unsure if this is fair or
suitable for the fish ,

I would think the bacteria would start to die that many hours without a
fresh flow of oxygen rich water. I personally wouldn't do that.

i've been round the houses and put some filter sponge between the
filter and the glass on the tank , that did cut the nose down a little ,
but you guys i'm sure know , that at the dead of night , if you hear a
pin drop you can kinda hear it..........

I hope this will not cause a stir of ppl shouting at me for even making
the sugguestion , my big tank is in my 2nd bedroom and of course the pump
is on 24/7 , but i can't hear that pump in my sleeping bedroom.

Do you mean air-pump? Most of those I had were a bit too noisy for a
bedroom.

Sooooooo guys do i have two options , both been okay and fine for the fish
, or is it a very bad idea and i should simply move the tank downstairs ,
if i can't live/sleep with the hummmmmmmming noise from the filter.

If I were you I would either try and find an almost silent HOB filter or
move the tank out of the bedroom.
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