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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #101
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V5 #101
- From: Chuck Gadd <cgadd at cfxc_com>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:10:11 -0600
- References: <200205181948.g4IJm1M22114 at acme_actwin.com>
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Aquatic Plants Digest wrote:
> I may be mistaken Scott, but I don't believe he said he had a tank dump, he
> said he turned the co2 up too high because initialy nothing was coming out,
> and he left it at that level before going to bed. There does seem to be a
> delay turning on the CO2, its an easy mistake to make.
I remeber that Dave has some instructions, which mention turning the
CO2 output pressure up very high initially, to allow the check-valve
to open. Then, once the check valve opens, the pressure should be
set to the correct level.
> can be considered a true and accurate bubblecounter. I challenge anyone who
> has one to count the number of bubbles...and then hook up a real inline
> bubble counter at the same pressure and see if these two so called
> bubblecounters match up.
The bubble rates won't match up, but that doesn't matter. There is no
"official" bubble size. But if you have the eheim, and you count 2 bubbles
per second, and you want more, you can go up to 3 bubbles per second. So
the bubble counter is obviously working fine!
I frequently see people on the newsgroups asking "how many bubbles
per second do I need for 15ppm CO2?" but it's impossible to
give an answer. Bubbles are not a valid measure of CO2 levels.
--
Chuck Gadd