how does this work???

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looks like basically the same thing as a DIY but using the fizz tabs rather then the usual ingredients. Probably roughly the same stuff just in an easy to swallow gel cap. The diffuser looks to be a bell type. i dont own one, just my guesses looking at it.

edit: I meant reactor not diffuser, sorry.
 
rye... ur just answering all my questions this afternoon but i have more. so for 16 bucks is it a good investment. will it work well?
 
honestly...I wouldnt even worry about it. I spent like 300 bucks on a CO2 system and I used for about 6 months in my largest tank and finally said to hell with it. It blew out and killed several fish one night, I never could get it to flow at a constant rate, so I had to adjust every day, sometimes it wouldnt seal properly and I blow through 10 bucks worth of CO2 in a couple days, it was just annoying and I really wasnt seeing a huge difference in plant growth. that tank has minimum surface agitation and about between 4 and 5 wpg of light and the plants grow like crazy I have to trim them back all the time and while it has a little algae it isnt a big problem. Mine was a pressurized system and that isnt, but it just left a bad taste in my mouth for CO2 and seeing the results I wasnt all that impressed. I'd get your stuff set up and running for awhile and then see if you think you need it.

Keep the surface agitation down and the fish will give you some extra CO2. In different tanks I bet I have 20 or 30 or more different types of plants and I have yet to encounter the plant that would die because it didnt have CO2 injection. Certainly not any of the popular plants that are online and at the LFS.

If you are really sure you want to give CO2 a try I'd use the DIY type like caoboy is talking about so if you decide it isnt worth it you arent out a bunch of money or anything. And if you really do like it you can always upgrade to the one you posted or a pressurized system or something later.
 
yea thats y im interested in that one cuz its cheap and if it doesnt work. no big deal. only problem with the DIY is that i dont want to do it myself. i was a SDIFM (someone do it for me). lol
 
rye;2217510;2217510 said:
honestly...I wouldnt even worry about it. I spent like 300 bucks on a CO2 system and I used for about 6 months in my largest tank and finally said to hell with it. It blew out and killed several fish one night, I never could get it to flow at a constant rate, so I had to adjust every day, sometimes it wouldnt seal properly and I blow through 10 bucks worth of CO2 in a couple days, it was just annoying and I really wasnt seeing a huge difference in plant growth. that tank has minimum surface agitation and about between 4 and 5 wpg of light and the plants grow like crazy I have to trim them back all the time and while it has a little algae it isnt a big problem. Mine was a pressurized system and that isnt, but it just left a bad taste in my mouth for CO2 and seeing the results I wasnt all that impressed. I'd get your stuff set up and running for awhile and then see if you think you need it.

Keep the surface agitation down and the fish will give you some extra CO2. In different tanks I bet I have 20 or 30 or more different types of plants and I have yet to encounter the plant that would die because it didnt have CO2 injection. Certainly not any of the popular plants that are online and at the LFS.

If you are really sure you want to give CO2 a try I'd use the DIY type like caoboy is talking about so if you decide it isnt worth it you arent out a bunch of money or anything. And if you really do like it you can always upgrade to the one you posted or a pressurized system or something later.
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pressurized co2 is the most effecient and cleaniest way of getting co2 into larger tanks. the problems you are describing are most likely caused by low quality components and user error
 
probably so, but even when it was working well, I didnt feel like the growth i was getting was worth it.
 
I set up a DIY system on one of my tanks. I got one of the bubble ladders, hooked together 3 2L bottles with a gang valve. For the tops of the bottles though, I found drilling into the caps and gluing tubing in led to a pretty leaky seal, so I got rubber stoppers with a hole in them and got small pieces of copper tubing to put through them and attach the silicone tubing to. It worked pretty well while it was set up. I really want to try another planted tank sometime soon and I'll probably use this system again, but for a longer period of time to really see how it works over an extended period of time.
 
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