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    Building a CO2 DIY system alone, see pic here:

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    Hi! Plant Enthusiastes,

    After researching and looking at others builders of CO2 system,
    I've been trying to build one DIY CO2 System by myself lately...

    This DIY system is completely different from what you see in the market and others hobbyists:

    However, it's still in the experimental stage:
    Commments anyone?

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    See DIY CO2 system here
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    http://www.geocities.com/lfs2002sg/CO2.htm

    The baby shark in the schematics diagam does not belong to me...
    just for illustration sake [] [] []
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    Good Health to your fish

    Yours,
    Alan

    http://www.geocities.com/lfs2002sg
    (shortcut url = trak.to/lfs)

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    don't think your design will work.
    cos you are aerating the water and causes turbulance on the water surface.
    co2 will be lost so defeats the purpose of injecting co2.
    thomas liew

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    On 5/17/2002 11:15:46 AM

    don't think your design will work.
    cos you are aerating the water and causes turbulance on the water surface.
    co2 will be lost so defeats the purpose of injecting co2.
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    Hi tawauboy,

    Yah! Thanks for your suggestions, I've thought of that possibilty too...

    The diffused CO2 will be induced by the aeration called 'Bernoulli effect'.

    Goes Something like that:
    "Velocity of water flow is inversly proportional to pressure."
    Meaning that: higher velocity flow = lower pressure , vice versa.

    That's how airplanes get the lift, and if you stand too near to the MRT line, you'll get sucked in by the trains due to this 'Bernouli Effect'...(difference in speed and pressure of yourself and the trains)

    I have tried to construct 2 lines:
    1 of the line will have air pumped from the air-pump and
    the other line is full of CO2 from the the CO2 Generators.
    (Imagine 2 MRT lines next to one another... )

    Then there'll be two different pressures at these two lines.
    The higher pressure at the CO2 line may get sucked or attracted to the high aeration line (high speed & low pressure line) but the hole is too small for the Co2 to escape into the aeration line, so the CO2 may get diffused upwards on its own line.
    (Hope it works out fine)

    The basic idea is to try "FORCING" the CO2 at the other line to diffuse slowly upwards
    by using the help of a high & heavy aerated air tube next to it.

    Still experimentating, will publish results again.... (if it is sucessful, - hope it works... )

    Hope the aeration won't disturb the CO2 at the other line. []

    ***********************
    See DIY CO2 system here
    ***********************
    http://www.geocities.com/lfs2002sg/CO2.htm

    Costing less than S$20 to build the entire system.
    (2 x CO2 Generators + 1 x CO2 Reactor)
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    Good Health to your fish

    Yours,
    Alan

    http://www.geocities.com/lfs2002sg
    (shortcut url = trak.to/lfs)

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    it doesn't make a difference
    with the air being injected in you're losing co2 just as fast as your diy co2 can pump it in
    you might want to use a reactor instead of letting the co2 bubble out, and lose the air pump too

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