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re: CO2 input into powerhead
>Anyway ... after about 10 or 15 minutes I noticed small amounts of fine
>bubbles coming out my powerhead & after about 30 mins the yeast + sugar
>mixture was foaming quite a lot - this normally takes about 2 hours to
>happen. It is not a particularly warm day in Madison WI today (actually
>quite cool & raining) so I can only assume that the "sucking" action of
>the powerhead is causing the reaction to go faster. Is this good? It's
>been running for over an hour yet & neither pH or CO2 concentration in
>the tank have changed.
A couple of guesses:
1. You may have used a lot of yeast. (Way too simple, this couldn't be it.)
2. The lower pressure could cause the following situation:
Low pressure -> higher CO2 evaporation
higher CO2 evaporation -> more neutral pH
more neutral pH -> yeast is healthier
yeast is healthier -> yeast produces CO2 faster
3. You may be actually producing the same amount of CO2, the lower pressure
just makes the bubbles bigger.
Could be any, none, or a combination of these.
David W. Webb
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