White Fluff.... Yeast Based Co2

[Miss Wiggle]

set up a nutrafin yeast based Co2 kit the other week with a ceramic diffusor, Sam had warned me about white fluff and said to put a bubble counter in to stop it getting into the tank, well the diffusor say's it acts as a bubble counter as well so i (perhaps stupidly) assumed it would be OK and said fluff would trap itself in there. Well it's not worked and the fluff is kind of coming through the ceramic into the tank, doesn't seem to be doing anyone any harm but it's a bit unsightly. I was going to change the diffusor anyway so I'm just wanting to check i've got my equipment all set up right to stop it getting into the tank.

if I use this diffuser
http/www.aquaessentials.co.uk/index.php?...roducts_id=1271

and this bubble counter
http/www.aquaessentials.co.uk/index.php?...roducts_id=1233

and set it up

yeast mix >> non return valve >> bubble counter >> diffuser

is that right? should i get white fluff coming into the tank?

 

[lljdma06]

Sam makes things so difficult. Miss Wiggle, just don't fill up the water all the way to the second notch in the canister. Fill it about 1/2-2/3 inch below the second notch. I don't get the lovely white stuff when I do that, and I just use the bubble ladder/diffuser, that the Nutrafin comes with.

I will admit though, those are pretty little gadgets.

Sam, you are awesome!

llj

 

[Miss Wiggle]

aaaaaaah ok

i'm gonna get the nice diffuser anyway as the cermic ones noisy and the ladder is ugly

but if i can save £8 on the bubble counter then that's good!

 

[Themuleous]

Oi! Less of the Sam bashing Llj!

If filling it less works, then cool not heard of that solution before. It just that when I got the white fluff there wasn't anything going into the diffuser from the yeast chamber and I found that the bubble counter sorted it for me. However I didn't use the buyo one I used this one, not sure if it'd make any difference.

http/www.aquaessentials.co.uk/index.php?...products_id=675

But it sounds like Llj has saved you a few quid there Miss Wiggle

Sam

 

[SuperColey1]

Sam's right

The white fluff (semen lookalike or bits of old silicon) is nothing at all to do with the yeast coming down the tube.

It is at the end of the tubing on ladders, and on the glass on glass diffusors that you get it where the CO2 meets the Oxygen!!!.

If you get a bubble counter you get some build up there (not much) instead of on the diffusor.



Wiggle

I use a Gamba Xii or Xiii cant remember which roman decimals it is, which is the bubble counter and also a non stop valve (2 piece) AE sells them and Aquatic Magic on ebay too.

Andy

 

[lljdma06]

Oi! Less of the Sam bashing Llj!

Sam's right

The white fluff (semen lookalike or bits of old silicon) is nothing at all to do with the yeast coming down the tube.

It is at the end of the tubing on ladders, and on the glass on glass diffusors that you get it where the CO2 meets the Oxygen!!!.

I must be special then, because I don't get that. Learn something new everyday.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

now i'm even more confused!! so with the spiro diffuser and with no bubble counter will i still get white fluff?

 

[Themuleous]

I would think you would. But I guess might be a case of try and see you never know you might be 'special' like Llj and get lucky

Sam

PS - although Llj is 'special' in other ways too

 

[spankone]

the spiro isnt that good any way it drove me mad although it is 7 inches long and my tank is only 10 inches high so it was a struggle to even get it in my tank

 

[Miss Wiggle]

I would think you would. But I guess might be a case of try and see you never know you might be 'special' like Llj and get lucky

Sam

PS - although Llj is 'special' in other ways too

wow i can be special too ???

the spiro isnt that good any way it drove me mad although it is 7 inches long and my tank is only 10 inches high so it was a struggle to even get it in my tank

my tank's quite tall, i've checked and there's plenty of room for it.

 

[Themuleous]

You sure can Alice

 

[lljdma06]

I would think you would. But I guess might be a case of try and see you never know you might be 'special' like Llj and get lucky

Sam

PS - although Llj is 'special' in other ways too

wow i can be special too ???

You sure can Alice

Yeah, we're special. Sam is too. Group hug!

 

[Ronan]

I've been getting a serious amount of this white fluff since using my own yeast and sugar with hard water rather than the Hagen mix. I took a sample of the stuff of it and gave it to a Botanist friend who stuck it under a microscope. It is almost certainly a fungus as it is made up over very long thin strands - it is neither yeast nor bacteria.

What I'm not sure of is why it appears - presumably the fungus loves the higher concentrations of acidity around where the CO2 meets the water?

Ronan