julicat
Aquarium Advice Regular
Bear with me please.
Due to algae problems and plants not doing as well as I hope, I've begun seriously flirting with starting a do-it-myself C02 thingy...
I read this and that and concluded: I get a 1.5 or 2 liter bottle, put airline about an inch into the bottle lid and seal it on both sides with silicone. Next, put the correct mixture of elements (yeast, sugar, etc.) into the bottle. Seal the bottle. Put an airstone on the other end of the tube and shove it into the tank somewheres. Change the mixture every week or three, Voila. C02 production. There was much rejoicing, etc.
More reading led me to decide it would be good to put a one-way valve somewhere on the line between the C02 bottle and the tank. Okay. Accepted.
NOW I'm reading about how the C02 gas collects, how it's dispersed...
My head's startin' to hurt.
Can I just put the C02-producing airstone in the tank...or, perhaps to better effect, in the HOB filter resevoir? Do I need to assemble more thingies and processes to truly achieve a viable C02 system? Have I basically only half-researched this and half-thought this through?
Right now I have a few boxes of C&H, unopened packets of yeast, a bottle cap with airline sealed into it (hanging out of reach of Leon, the gray cat), some capless 2 liter bottle kickin' around somewhere, and good intentions and limited energy.
I fully accept that I am lazy and not the brightest glolite in the school.
Thank you in advance for any avocational support given.
Your humble julicat
Due to algae problems and plants not doing as well as I hope, I've begun seriously flirting with starting a do-it-myself C02 thingy...
I read this and that and concluded: I get a 1.5 or 2 liter bottle, put airline about an inch into the bottle lid and seal it on both sides with silicone. Next, put the correct mixture of elements (yeast, sugar, etc.) into the bottle. Seal the bottle. Put an airstone on the other end of the tube and shove it into the tank somewheres. Change the mixture every week or three, Voila. C02 production. There was much rejoicing, etc.
More reading led me to decide it would be good to put a one-way valve somewhere on the line between the C02 bottle and the tank. Okay. Accepted.
NOW I'm reading about how the C02 gas collects, how it's dispersed...
My head's startin' to hurt.
Can I just put the C02-producing airstone in the tank...or, perhaps to better effect, in the HOB filter resevoir? Do I need to assemble more thingies and processes to truly achieve a viable C02 system? Have I basically only half-researched this and half-thought this through?
Right now I have a few boxes of C&H, unopened packets of yeast, a bottle cap with airline sealed into it (hanging out of reach of Leon, the gray cat), some capless 2 liter bottle kickin' around somewhere, and good intentions and limited energy.
I fully accept that I am lazy and not the brightest glolite in the school.
Thank you in advance for any avocational support given.
Your humble julicat