Great information fellas, thank you very much. One remaining question I have before I put this whole thing together is how much is not enough in regards to bubbles?

I've found quite a few air stones.. single small ones, 5 inch round , air curtains that are skinny and larger curtains which appear black/rock/sand like and such. I know its there is never "enough" bubbling, but with that being said and ten 5 gallon buckets thats quite a bit of air to push around for 1 or 2 air pumps. I would imagine by T'ing them off and having 10 air stones of being powered that their effectiveness will go down.

I DO intend to have two 100gallon+ air pumps running each stone.. so at the front of each air stone will be a T splitter where each air pump has line line going plugged into it.. this way if one died (as you suggested) the other is still bubbling a little. With them combined I should get a decent amount of action coming out of the air stones.

Sorry to be long winded but my point is this.. i've youtubed and looked on this forum as well as others and never actually see someone with video of inside their res or buckets to see what kind of bubbles are going on down there.

Thanks guys