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re:yeast CO2 injection



>From: vari at sunset_roma1.infn.it (Riccardo Vari)
>Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 14:53:40 +0100
>Subject: yeast CO2 injection
>
>Hello!
>Last week I tried to build a yeast CO2 injection system for my 20 gallons
>full of plants tank.
>I mixed together one liter of water, 25 gr of beer yeast and
>a cup of sugar. It worked (one bubble per second) for one day only.
>Maybe I used a wrong quantity of components.
>Does anybody know the exact amount of the components?
>And what about the yeast? What kind of yeast should I use?
>Thanks a lot.

One day is not enough time to complete fermentation unless you've got some 
really spastic yeast.  I would look into one of two things that might have 
happened:

1.  Your water doesn't have enough carbonate hardness to buffer the acidity of 
the CO2, causing the yeast to dramatically slow down production.

2.  You have a leak between your CO2 generator and your diffuser/reactor.

I would expect for a 1-liter CO2 generator to run for about a week and a half, 
although I only run 2-liter CO2 generators and use basically double the 
ingredients, plus baking soda to keep the pH from crashing.

David W. Webb
Enterprise Computing Provisioning
Texas Instruments Inc. Dallas, TX USA
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