Marine Metal Aeratr Bubble Box 1.5V

Moved our 5 home aquariums 6 hours north. Was an 18 hour project, and the aerators were still humming along. Not one fish was lost!

These things are life savers!! I have about 5 now for emergency power outages. I had bought 3 when I was moving my 90 gallon tank 50 mins away. I had to re setup my tank so it held out for hours without me having to rush to get it done. Lately I'm pregnant so lugging my small generator I bought just for the fish tank is harder than before. We kept losing power everytime a storm came in and was out for an hour or two. I didn't want to setup my generator because I live where it wouldn't be out more than 4 hours. This produces a lot of oxygen for my fish and I just decided to make sure I have plenty going to be better safe than sorry. I do have different air stones on mine to produce better bubbles for the fish. My old set that was a different brand didn't hold up long and was extremely loud. These are quiet compared to my other one. I can only hear it in the room the tank is in vs hearing throughout the house with the old ones. That quiet comes in handy when the power is out at night and we want to actually get some sleep.

I have to say that I have been extremely impressed with the performance of this little aerator so far. I've had it running for over 80 hours now on one set of Energizer batteries! Few fatalities happened even with a batch of poor bait as stated from the store. Used with a larger squared off cooler style tank and your bait should only have to worry about your hook. There has been one point where this unit got totally submerged and I was thinking it was destroyed, wrong! I pulled it out of the water and it started coughing and spitting water like I'd done CPR on it and then went back to working like the champ it is. To save money and not have to worry about batteries finally dying unobserved when away I'd recommend buying a plug in aerator for when you are not on the water or en route (my truck actually has one the can be used too). Amazon has some of the plug in aerators priced reasonably as well. one of two of these had the air nozzle break off with no apparent cause after less than a year's use. Granted in the time I've had it used more than most will in a decade.

The thing works with slight modification to the clip and hose hole in the plastic protector. Don't throw away the package it comes in. It keeps water out. But to switch it on or change batteries, you have to take the protector off. Anyway, for the price it's good. Two D batteries last a long time.

I purchased this aerator for a different purpose than most. I wanted to make compost tea for my garden however there is no power out at my garden and didn't want to lug a huge bucket of tea from home. For compost tea you really need a lot of bubbling, I bought two aerators. They came with tubing (fairly short) and little air stones. For those using this for fish, one aerator would suffice for 5 gallons. I wasn't satisfied with the amount of bubbles I got with two so I purchased a third and some better air stones. This is the perfect solution for me. Two D batteries in each lasted over 48 hours (I used the Amazon basics batteries). Now I am buying rechargeable batteries because I hate all the waste. This little pump is a great deal at this price, you've really got nothing to lose.

I used this bubble box during our move to transport our fish in our 30 gallon saltwater aquarium. Popped all our fish and some live rock in a 5 gallon bucket. They were in there for a total of 36 hours. Around the 24 hour mark I noticed they were losing their color and struggling to breathe. I realized I didn't have the bubbler at the bottom of the bucket, so I mixed up the water and moved the bubbler down to the bottom and they perked right up. All my fish survived the move thanks to this thing! It was easy to use.FYI batteries not included.

Overall, before the grey air nozzle breaks, it works well on 5 gal or smaller bait buckets. Have bought three over two years, all three nozzles havebroken, even when stored inside a Pelican case I mounted to the top of the bucket/lid for what I thought was extra durability. Also, the bubble stoneit comes with is VERY fragile and breaks off easily, too. Amazon has refunded the price of one but would buy another with better components andpay the difference.

Excellent! We used this on a cross country move in an attempt to keep some relatively hard to find aquarium fish, rather than selling them. The batteries lasted much longer than we anticipated- 5 days for 24 hrs a day on a single set of batteries. It's did finally die shortly after that, but we were expecting 2-3 days. We were pleasantly surprised. The case protected the unit from splashing but we didn't have too much splashing in the first place. I'm glad to have this on standby as a backup air pump now that it served its initial purpose.

Better than expected, runs a solid 4 days + some hours on two D cell batteries. Did it twice, first time with 2 no name batteries, the second time with 2 Duracell, ran four days + a few hours with both. Runs on a single D cell but doesn’t produces as much air bubbles.

Great little air pump for live well or bait bucket! Got flooded during a storm a the bottom of the boat and still works great! Highly recommend!

Pump ran for over 48 hours continuously on 2 D cell batteries. Only negative point is the unit uses the packaging that it came in as it’s waterproof case. The unit itself is not waterproof which is why I only gave it 4 stars.

What a great dealRan for two days straight on one set of batteries. Likely lots more life in them Only shut unit off because plans changed and we released the minnows

Saved my fish during a house transfer. Great product

Its works perfect keeps minnows alive all day.l would recommend this product to everybody. Fast delivery to.

Lasted way longer than the 6hrs stated on the packaging. Held up beautifully over night ice fishing kept all our minnows alive for a day and a half

well my friends loved it... I was a hero keeping the minnows alive for 2 days. Wasn’t on all the time but gave them plenty of oxygen on/off. Works well and quiet, a must gadget to have!

The blue bubble emitter at the end of the tube broke during my first use. Was trying to detach the tube from it to fit it into a bait well bucket and it broke in two... disappointing, should be tougher

Bubbler works well keeping minnows alive for long timer

Seems to work well.I have only used it once so far for large Australian salmon, it did keep them alive for awhile, but eventually having they did not have enough oxygen.Would work well for smaller fish

exactly as expected no shipping problems either

Working good

Keep my minows alive for the day

My husband love it. Took it on a week long fishing trip and never had any issues.