Jake,

Bill Cody is very knowlegeable on this and should see your post soon. He's not that far from you either in northwest Ohio. I'm even closer south of Ligonier 2 mile on St. Rd 33 about 39 miles from Ft. Wayne.

I would run another line out with a diffuser for winter and not move your present one. That is what I do. However if compressor is the one I think it is, it's puts out about 4 CFM which is too much for one airstone. In fact, you could have run two airlines and a membrane diffuser from each airline from that size of compressor during the summer.

I disconnet my summer airline at the compressor and connect my winter airline in winter. I also change to a 1/10 hp. compressor as you don't need as much air in winter and the smaller one uses much less electricity. Am I confusing you yet? It's very possible if you are stuck with the big compressor you could bleed off air with another shutoff value but I've never done that.

Bill had recently informed me it is not neccessary to run the diffusers 24/7 and 6 hours a day with a timer will do the trick even in winter. But you need something to bleed the air off when the compressor shuts down so it won't be so hard for the compresser to start up again. Bill uses a section of garden hose looped to run back into the compresser with pin holes to bleed off the air whent he compressor shuts off.

No nixing anything Bob says though. But I doubt if Bob sees ice like we do up here.

Bill? How about it?

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.