Andy Peteman wrote:
Advice please i have a bit of a situation , i have just put a 2ft
tank in the bedroom ,i've cycled the tank and have filled the tank
[...]
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 .........so i have too options , i have a nice little
suitable space downstairs in my front room , where i can put the tank

It should be fairly simple to build a little soundproof enclosure for the
filter, ideally underneath the tank, and just run the hoses through small
holes.
Of course you have to make sure that the filter is sitting on soft material
such that the enclosure doesn't become an amplifier.

jue