BondStreet
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hi There...
Looking to purchase my last piece of planted tank "necessities" - a CO2 Reactor. However, I was wondering if someone can recommend a relatively inexpensive "tank-less" reactor. I was at the LFS recently and they had a "Carbo-something" reactor that generates CO2 by electrolysis. I thought that was an awesome device, however, I wanted to do some investigating before purchasing it. They have it in their planted tank. It runs about $250. If that is the average price for something like that, I will buy it, however, is there any better device/brand? ANY advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. This device they are selling has a regulator on it which I hear is a great thing. I just want to see if there are alternatives to having a CO2 reactor that requires a bulky external CO2 gas tank.
Thanks for any help!
Bondstreet
Looking to purchase my last piece of planted tank "necessities" - a CO2 Reactor. However, I was wondering if someone can recommend a relatively inexpensive "tank-less" reactor. I was at the LFS recently and they had a "Carbo-something" reactor that generates CO2 by electrolysis. I thought that was an awesome device, however, I wanted to do some investigating before purchasing it. They have it in their planted tank. It runs about $250. If that is the average price for something like that, I will buy it, however, is there any better device/brand? ANY advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. This device they are selling has a regulator on it which I hear is a great thing. I just want to see if there are alternatives to having a CO2 reactor that requires a bulky external CO2 gas tank.
Thanks for any help!
Bondstreet
I just have the ehiem diffuser that came wit the system. it makes very fine bubbles, my plants grow like mad, but the don't "pearl" as much as others i've seen. pearling is where the plants put off pure oxygen bubbles. I haven't seen a reactor i like yet, it either involves a big bulky thing inside the tank, hate that idea, or an external reactor with boatloads of plumbing, which I'm also not interested in. I've had enogh tank disaters involving plumbing in my life, not going down that road again.
