[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Apparent O2 shortage, need help!!
One suggestion I can make is to use a check valve in the CO2 setup. When I used
one in the past, I'd have two bottles going to a T-junction, and a check valve
on the tank side of the T.
-- Stephen
> >After having many of my fish for several years, through thick and thin,
> >more than half of them met their ends last night, due to the contents of
> >both of my 2 liter yeast reactors being sucked into my tank by the
> >filter.
>
> I just had a similar experience four days ago. Except I was using square
> juice bottles with rigid sides to avoid the collapsing problem. However,
> water back-flowed into the bottle and then out again into the tank.
> Emptying not the whole bottle, but enough so that the water started
> getting cloudy white.
>
> I changed a bunch of water and left an airstone running for about 2 days.
> The yeast looked mostly cleared by then, and I tentatively turned it off
> two mornings ago. There was bubbling of plants that night, and all seems
> well now.
>
>
> Elliot.
>