Hello all, I was wondering if any of you have any experience with sound proofing a canister filter. I currently have my canister filter in a cabinet under my 180 gallon fish tank. I have already hanged carpet inside the walls in the cabinet, but that only helped just a little bit. It seems that most of the sound the canister is producing is low frequency sound. I think I am going to build some kind of structure around the canister filter to block the low freq. sound coming from it. Anybody have any suggestions on material I should use? Or any other tips?
Sound proofing a cabinet with a canister filter in it
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What kind of canister filter do you have that you are worried about noise? I have one fluval 304 and three 404's and can only tell they are running if I am right next to them.
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try folding a towel under the canister. i found my rena xp2 to be a little bit 'vibrate-y' when placed directly on the stand's surface but the towel underneath makes it almost completely silent.
It requires substantial mass to block low freq sound. Unless you use studio-quality soundproofing foam blocks or bricks, you're not going to block it. Plus, you cannot seal the canister because of tubing, so noise will escape.
Buy an Eheim instead
Ditto the mass equation but start by curing the disease. That much noise is way weird. Isolate the culprit within the filter because trying to eliminate the low frequency stuff is really tough. The lower freqs will tend to resonate through floors and walls, sometimes even using them as amplifiers. Higher freqs are more like trying to stop an air leak and are more directional.
What the heck kind of washing machine filter do you have anyway? Even my FX5 isn't that obtrusive, and they're pretty noisy.
What the heck kind of washing machine filter do you have anyway? Even my FX5 isn't that obtrusive, and they're pretty noisy.
Buy a couple thick mouse pads and set it on them. i did that for a pc with noisy hard drives(maxtors >:[ cant stand em)