Sorry to dig up such an old thread, but I'm looking at possibly building one of these reactors, based around a 20" housing shown here:
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Did the vortex vein you created work John (
@foxfish ), as I am thinking of doing the same thing. Do you think the wide 20" housing shown above will work well, or would I be better with a narrower housing so there is more water pressure pushing the CO2 around the outside of the inner outlet tube?