Is This Right?

[crimsontsavo]

Will this work for my 5 gallon?
I tried to remember everything to buy but I have 'fibro fog' lol.
I bought the sealant and yeast as well.
The apple sauce jar is glass, the juice bottle is thick plastic.

 

[three-fingers]

Are the airstones for the CO2 diffusion? If so, they aren't really any use, ceramic diffusers work well if you build the unit secure enough : ).


If I were you I'd use a bigger bottle, one that's designed to hold pressurised liquids....the lid on that thing will probably leak. Go buy the cheapest 2 liter cola you can find .

You forgot sugar . If you have soft water, may as well add some baking soda just to be safe .

 

[crimsontsavo]

lol, ive got sugar.
well, lucky for me we go through at least 1 2 liter a day LOL.
I cracked the lid on the juice bottle so had to use the pepsi hehehe.

tankies!!

-CT

hehe, im actually so excited my hearts beating fast, LOL. Maybe this will help those poor scraggly plants I have floating LOL.

ohh. well i couldnt find a ceramic diffuser. I was actually gonna ask if I could somehow run the co2 into the outflow of my filter?

 

[three-fingers]

Would be better putting it in the inflow (so the impeller chops the bubbles up into micro bubbles), but wouldn't be great for the filter.

If you have big bubbled of CO2 coming out if the inflow, they are just going to rise to the surface and go into the air before they get a chance to be absorbed into the water.
If you used an airstone, the same would happen, in fact if the unit works well enough you would have less CO2 in the water if you used an airstone.

You could try a bubble ladder, or any other diffusion method...but there will be no difference with an airstone or putting it in the outflow .

 

[crimsontsavo]

Thnks! Ill try your suggestions. We came down with a bad virus so havent had a chance to do it hehe.

 

[waterdrop]

"I was actually gonna ask if I could somehow run the co2 into the outflow of my filter? "

That's ironic, I was just reading some planted tank articles where the writers were saying that CO2 injection ahead of the cannister impeller has become their newest preferred choice. They were using Inline Reactors.

I don't know exactly what makes a good -inline- reactor (ie. one that won't slow the pump speed too much.) (I assume this is all way too much for a 5 gallon but its interesting to know about none-the-less.) There are people that make non-inline reactors by pumping tank water into a tube with a power-head, forcing it into a cylinder they've made. The cylinder is open at the other end but has a grid or something so that a sponge can be trapped at that far end. An airline injects the CO2 at the beginning of the cylinder and there are 2 or more Bioballs (those plastic thingies used in some filters for biomedia). The strong water-current spins the bioballs and breaks up the co2. The sponge keeps the co2 trapped to be further broken up but lets the water go on through.

Supposedly these reactors are often more efficient (give higher ppm of co2 per amt of co2 gas used) than diffusers(but it depends on the diffuser and there is controversy about this). I read about these in context with gas cylinder systems.

Sorry if I'm way off base, just thought you'd find this interesting given what you were saying up there... (true planted tank people could no doubt put this in better perspective for you!)

~~waterdrop~~