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> From: duncand at sprynet_com
> Subject: DIY C02 recipie doesn't last
>
> This is for all the DIY C02 users out there.
>
> I'm running one bottle on a 75g and one on a 50g. The recipie I got from a FAQ
> file off of the AquaLink web site calls for 3 cups sugar and two tablespoons
> yeast (roughly 1 packet) to the two litre bottle. The file states that this is
> supposed to last about two weeks. I'm barely getting one week on mine.
I'm running two bottles on my 100 gallon. I tried the same recipe for
each bottle, changing the solution every week, but at a three-days
interval between bottles. One twist was to reuse the yeast (a penny
saved is an eventual plant) ie. I'll throw most of the yeast-sugar
solution away and keep about a tenth. I'll then add just the
sugar-solution to it. I did the above on the advice of my friend
who's got a PhD in microbiology. According to him, the yeast will
keep producing CO2 and alcohol until the alchohol eventually kills it.
The trick is to keep the yeast-solution just before the alchohol kills
it. If anyone has any figures on the mortality of Fleichman's yeast,
pls let me know.
Another twist is to pipe the CO2 under a floating glass jar:
Borrowing Duncan's picture:
____________r-------n_
|_====_________________|
|~|o~|~~~~~~~~~~~~||~~~|
| | o| . <>-< || |
| |o | . . |
| | o| ><> \ . |
| O |/ >-<> |
|************|*********|
|______________________|
where o
o are the CO2 bubbles coming from an airstone
I inverted a glass jar and let it float under a glass pane that was
placed across the aquarium. The CO2 bubbles are placed under this.
After a few hours, when it's filled up, I moved the bubbles elsewhere
and replace them back under the glass jar again when the CO2 in the
jar is almost fully dissolved.
A further refinement would be to build a narrow, inverted glass box at
the back of the aquarium to collect the CO2 the same way. Has anyone
tried this before?
Francis Ngoh