DIY CO2

[kjfan1]

What about the depth of the sugar and yeast at the bottom of the jug?

I get what your saying about the pressure. Maybe a 1 gallon gatorade jug like I have. It works great.

 

[epond83]

Pressure depth cannot have an effect in our situation.

You need a little over 24 inches of depth before you even see a 1 psi increase

 

[MGoerke]

so 1 psi creates 24" of water colum - 24" w.c. Ok I would say that's correct but I don't think these can make too much psi. I think a wine bottle would be sweet because I can have the air tube 3" away from the mix but have less wasted space cause it is not as "wide" a container. I would akso agree a milk jug wuld have too much give to it, it is very soft plastic. That's why I lie the juice bottle it seems to be a little more ridgid than a soda bottle.

I wil be posting some new pics in an hour here I just set up a 2nd bottle with wine yeast & nutrients in a 1.4 liter bottle. I m gonna ,ove to 2 1.4 liter bottles I think. Or I have also thoufht about a 1gal gatoraid bottle but I kinda like the 2 bottle setup!

 

[kjfan1]

What about the depth of the sugar and yeast at the bottom of the jug?

I don't mean the water pressure in the bottle by depth. I mean the pile of alcoholic yeast sludge. The bubbles come from that. I it was spread over a larger footprint.... Idk just thinkin.

 

[MGoerke]

1. all 3 tanks left to right 36g bow, 3g eclipse, 10g basic tank
2. Close up of the 36g
3. 3g close up (those fry are about 12 hours old)
4. 10g closeup (those fry are about 28 days old)
5. New Yeast used for new co2 bottle
6. new gas exchange/counter
7. all hooked up
8. glue i used this time (h2o proof, flexible, ok for fish)
9. yeast nutrition
10. other yeast and more nutrition i have bought (all 4 packs yeast and 2 packs nutrition only 5.40


i went to make a video but camera was dead! i got about 15 sec thru i was hoping it would have lasted longer.

 

[MGoerke]

oh 3-4 hours later 35bpm between the two, lets see what it is in a day or 2 once it has all evened out

 

[MGoerke]

trying to delete this but i cant,

 

[kjfan1]

Nice pictures man. Looks like you are becoming a pro at this I will take some pics of mine soon. I should have a video up a bunch of posts back.

 

[kjfan1]

Looks like you need a proper hood for your ten gallon. I would want to trade your light on it now for a full hood and light from my ten. Too bad you live too far away.

 

[MGoerke]

that 10g was hodge podge of spare parts, that filter is from m 36g & so is the light. I m thinking a DIY light, 2 T5's from homedropt are cheap.
that light is 30" wide but only a 18watt T8 so it was weak on the 36 but just about right for that 10, I have also thought about cutting down the ends there is about 3" on each side that have nothing in it. If I did that it would overhang about 2" on each side not 5" it is now.