Update: New Japanese CO2 diffusor

[benny]

Hi guys,

Remember the new CO2 diffusor that we saw in Aquarama 03? Here's a closer look.

Here's a picture of the new diffusor in packaging..


Nothing fancy, not special box presentation like ADA. One would almost mistake it for some budget offering unless you look carefully.



The ceramic plate is protected with a stainless steel mesh. You can see there's liquid the mesh as there's a bubble. It's some kind of liquid and rather slow flowing. I'm not sure if it's some kind of gel or water.



Overall look of the diffusor will show that it's actually made of 4 parts.



Once hooked up, you can can see that the bubbles come through the diffusor as really fine bubbles.

The good thing about this diffusor is that you can just use any type of CO2 tubing, whether soft or hard type, unlike the normal glass diffusors.

This product is still not available in Singapore yet. Last heard, Qian Hu is still considering whether to bring them in.

Cheers,

[learner]

Nice pictures. Let us know the price leh...

[benny]

It's retailing for 9800 Japanese yen (as indicated on the price tag on the first picture). Works out to be about S$170 per piece.

Cheers,

[hwchoy]

can the steel mesh be detached? otherwise how to clean the ceramic when it is covered with algae? []

[benny]

There's no need to detach. Just bleach the whole thing.

Cheers,

[kingpin]

The 2nd pic looks like a microphone []

[theodore]

Neat looking, no doubt about it ... but ~170SGD is kinda [] .

I hope some innovative (read: copycat) local/taiwanese company can come up with a similar product soon .

[williamng]

Like that might as well buy bioplast reactor. Cheaper and more useful

[loupgarou]

same price as the aqualine 1000 reactor..lol

[thanantosis]

$170!!!!!

some one pls kill me!

thats way too ex

[Darkkon]

In my opinion the innovation is in the mysterious liquid inside that somehow enables the co2 bubbles to be broken up into very fine size. Other than that everything seems as per a traditional ceremic diffusor. Given time our Taiwanese friends should be able to come up with something similar.

[bluezing]

saw something like this the other day at bedok.though not so stylo looking,but the function is basically abt the same.comes with the so call "bubble counter" and also the sticky round thing(forgot wats that called).i tink its either rainbow brand or oceanfree brand.should be rainbow i tink.and the price? $7 nia. chk it out.

[apollo]

Hi Darkkon

Its not mysterious liquid. Its our tank water that seeps into the void. In time it will be displace by our co2 injection.

[hwchoy]

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On 12/12/2003 9:28:26 AM

Hi Darkkon

Its not mysterious liquid. Its our tank water that seeps into the void. In time it will be displace by our co2 injection.



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according to the reviewer the liquid is "rather slow flowing" and comes with the packaging, so it is not just your tank water.

[wks]

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On 12/11/2003 10:50:48 PM

saw something like this the other day at bedok.though not so stylo looking,but the function is basically abt the same.comes with the so call "bubble counter" and also the sticky round thing(rem liao.its call the sucker ).i tink its either rainbow brand or oceanfree brand.should be rainbow i tink.and the price? $7 nia. chk it out.
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Hi bluezing, is the shop at Blk 84?

[bluezing]

erm...dun tink so.its opp the bedok library.