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soxal tops up industrial
your concern is valid
but the % is like 0.00x one, in practice no problem
Hmm I thought we are using food grade? Because industrial may have some poisonous gases mixed inside right
soxal tops up industrial
your concern is valid
but the % is like 0.00x one, in practice no problem
I tilt filter and no air, no air sounds, no bubbles coming out of filter.
soxal have different grades if i remember correctly.
think only food grade is suitable for our tanks.
they got all sorts of grades
but if you don't specify you'll get industrial grade
Simon, this one looks so new and clean mine is all brown inside with algae, sucks got to take it out for cleaning later.
Most, if not all the co2 supplied by LFS are industrial grade co2. Should not be too worried about it.----------------
On 12/24/2001 12:56:45 PM
soxal have different grades if i remember correctly.
think only food grade is suitable for our tanks.
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from the inside? wow!!----------------
On 12/24/2001 5:01:53 PM
Simon, this one looks so new and clean mine is all brown inside with algae, sucks got to take it out for cleaning later.
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Reactor ensures no wastage of CO2. I use 2 1.5l DIY bottle plus a cheapo made in Taiwan reactor. Works pretty well. Can also make riccia and other plants bubble by shaking the DIY bottles, the reactor will fill up will CO2 and slowly dissolves them.
Yeah! Reactor is efficient.
Just used my diy reactor and got my fishes (6 tiger barbs) gasping for air near the surface.when I left CO2 bubbling overnight.
About 1bps and now have to remove CO2 4hrs before light off.
thomas liew
If were to shake the bottle, please be careful not to shake it too vigrously till the solution get sucked up into the tube and end up in the water. Looks quite nasty...... but I don't think will cos any poisoning though.
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The Dennerle Reactor does not have the problem becos it has a adjustable gap which allow trap air to escape thru it. But that also means CO2 escaping thru it.
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OK one difference to point out... the dennerle reactor does have a hole on the top... but you should realize a couple of differences...
1) the hole size is adjustable... so you can decide how much air to let out
2) the cyclo reactor has small bars of plastic protruding from the top. This in my opinion is meant to help break up the CO2 into smaller bubbles. I have both the dennerle reactor and a taiwanese one. The Dennerle one never sees a layer of air trapped (only small bubbles swishing around)... the taiwan one always has it.
3) the hole in the dennerle reactor is not on the top, but some distance below the top... maybe 5mm I've monitored my reactor in the past, and the amount of air escaping is negligable... in other words, the reactor is damn efficient.
Anyway, thats my 2 cents on it... or maybe 3 cents.... 1 cent/point
Allen
Actually the hole of the dennerle cyclo reactor is right at the top. Only that the vent is pointed downwards. Bubbles tend to float, so I guess having the vent pointing downwards helps to reduce the amount of air escaping.
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Errrr... I'm probably stating the obvious here, but sometimes we don't see the obvious.
If you're using a reactor and you find that:
a. thats too much gas in your reactor, or
b. too much CO2 wasted due to escape valve/hole,
then reduce the bubble rate of your CO2.
Anyway, the reactor is supposed to contain the CO2 so that it has time to dissolve into the water. Which means that the bubble rate should be lower then when using just an airstone or diffusor which allows un-dissolved gas to escape.
Does that make sense? Just occurred to me only.
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Have you tried to reduce the CO2 injection rate?
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I don't have to at the moment. I used to have the problem of too much gas in the reactor (cheap taiwanese one), but since I last re-setup the whole thing, I haven't had the problem.
Vincent - AQ is for everyone, but not for 'u' and 'mi'.
Why use punctuation? See what a difference it makes:A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
BTW, my yamatos go inside the reactor (dennerle cyclo 5000) to eat the algae inside.
Wah... lawrence, your yamato comand kah... go inside the reactor. Won't the yamato get CO2 poisoning.....
Hahaha.. its still alive, a few of them would go in when the lights are on, but I guess they come out after lights off because there are usually none of them in the morning.
Yeah.. Commando Yamato Shrimps!
Hi, I am a beginner at planted tanks. Started using a cheap taiwan brand diffusor 3 months ago. Now i am having problems releasing CO2. Not too sure what the problem is. is it due to algae on the diffusor surface? But based on what i can see, there doesn't seem to have any algae. When i disconnect the bubble counter from the diffusor, i can still see the bubbles emitting from my co2 tank into the bubble counter. the moment i reconnect it, the bubbles stop. I suspect there is some pressure that is stopping the release. Please, can anyone help???
Boon Yong
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