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Very happy with mine.

They are both being run from FEs.

Agreed, it would look better but it's in the "office". I use the term loosely! Just haven't the time to make a new cabinet.

It does take a little while. Are you thinking leak? I have thought about that. Does the diffuser hold back a certain amount of pressure or does it all get out over time? Cheers.

The co2 supermarket basic bazooka.

I have a cabinet made for a 30" x12" aquarium. Rather than waste the cabinet I would like to use it for a 400x400x400mm cube. My question is, could I stand the cube on a "plate" of some type on the cabinet. I can't get my head around how the weight would be distributed! Cheers.

Hi, I have 2 Co2 supermarket standard set-ups. One hasn't missed a beat since I set it up. The other one, I just cannot get to give a steady controlled bubble count. I can get it set up, one bubble per second or whatever, then when I check it the next day it's one bubble per 5 minutes!!! Any...

I used the stuff they sell for greenhouse shading...basically nylon mesh.

http://www.aquariumgardens.co.uk/ I'll second, third or fourth AG, and not far from the A1 at Huntingdon. NOT open weekends, though.

You are right, it does need time to build up steam!

No mate one of them bazooka jobbies.

Just having issues with one of my Co2 supermarket regs. If I get it set up today at xyz bubbles per minute, when it switches on tomorrow it's hardly letting anything through and I have to re set it. This happens day after day. Any ideas, please?

Many thanks, all.

Now that I didn't know!

If you are doing frequent water changes, is carbon still required as a filter media? Cheers.

Just came across this place http://www.ledkia.com/uk/. May be of interest.

Sorry to ask if this has been done before but....... I now have a nice led bar which can be used with blue leds only, which is quite nice in the evening. The question is, do the blue lights cause algae just like the white ones do? Thanks.

Thanks all, some good info as usual.

Does anyone use these type of changers? I would be a bit concerned about variations in water temperature. Or maybe I just have a crap boiler. It was always emphasised that fish are very prone to sudden water temperature changes, but watching them dart from the edges of ponds and rivers in hot...

It's taken me about 40 years and 5 attempts to get anywhere...........don't give up....you look pretty close to me.

Called here today Aquarium Gardens Unit 20C Uplands Industrial Estate Mere Way Wyton Huntingdon PE28 2JZ Delighted to find it as it's only a couple of miles from me. Very helpful lad and plenty of stock in.

Much obliged!!

Little bit of the aquarium not touching down. It's a 60x40x40 cm. Do you think it would be safe? Thanks. Edit; this top is fully supported underneath by a 2x2 frame.

Velda from Maidenhead aquatics in a garden centre.

Thanks, Tim. Fingers crossed....!!!!

Hi all. Good to be back, having one last go! At last I seem to be having some success ( running out of time now lol). I have a bucketful of pond soil topped with inert gravel, ei dosing, co2 injection and fairly low led light but my low tech plants appear to be thriving.

I think they are dead and you've placed them on a rock in the garden.

Different bluebell wood mate, but originally from a brewing town about 50 miles down the A1.....

Well, if it sat there and if a little was absorbed, it's all going to help, I guess?

Thanks Darrel. I ain't got no bubbles at all as I've gone back to low tech!!! It's just that I worked with CO2 in one way or another for a number of years and suddenly thought about it laying as a blanket on the top of the water.

Seeing as CO2 is heavier than air, would it be a good idea to leave a small amount of space above the waterline so any CO2 released could sit on the surface of the water?

Whoa, some amazing pics there!

Rabbit droppings and nails!!!! I hadn't thought of either!!!!!

Any secrets of your success you'd like to share? :)

It amazed me how much water disappears now it's got cooler.

Lovely job :thumbup:

Cheers, Troi. I would tend to agree with all that. I've got a good ripple on the surface now, about 1.5 wpg T5s, so fingers crossed!

So, after failing miserably with high tech, it's back to the drawing board and low tech! My question is this; I have read about CO2 being absorbed from the atmosphere at the water surface. If I have a glass cover just above the surface with gaps of about 25mm at either end, will this restrict...

Best of luck to you! There is loads of info on here as I'm sure you know. Any specific questions may get a quicker response, eg, how do you grow plants so well? That's a question I'm still asking!!!!

What's your budget?

Doing searches on forums does not always yield results, especially when you need to search for a term, such as "why are my fish transvestites?" for example. This is where we rely on patient, more knowledgable people to help us mortals out. And we do appreciate it.

I'm not sure I have got anything better to do with my time, and although I've made almost 3,000 posts on UKAPS, I've basically said the same thing about 3,000 times. It's good stuff though:thumbup:

It's the same checker with the same fluid on the same co2 bottle and so on...!! Just don't know what happened but I will be home today to monitor it all,,,!! Thanks all.

Thanks Martin. No I didn't check for nitrates. To be honest I can't really think why they should have rocketed in one tank? I banged a few litres of fresh water in and they soon looked ok and all is ok this am. Still don't really understand it.

Would he get covered in algae?

Did my usual 50% w/c today. I also changed my light timers to 90 mins earlier. So...... WAS.... Co2 on 1500 Lights on 1730 TODAY... CO2 on 1500 Lights on 1600 2100, fish really struggling for oxygen but only in ONE of the tanks. The other one is fine. Drop checkers nowhere near...

I use 2 layers just to be on the safe side :)

I use the white foam underlay used for laminate flooring.

Amen.

My main point was that that programme , like a lot of tv today is a lot of bugger all. Very little happens and what does is replayed over and over again, lots of night vision and whispering which normally results in.......yes, bugger all. As for having to catch "monsters" to make fishing...

The fish dropping was about Wilson who seemed to make a habit of it...too busy showing off. I know a couple of guys who knew him.....and how other anglers were employed to hook the fish for him. I can't say too much cos I leave the filter guard off............:oops:

All those points are a matter of opinion.

There aren't too many in uk waters which may contribute to my low success rate. I have, however, caught beautiful 8oz wild brownies in tiny lochs on the top of Scottish hills, 2lb pristine rudd on 1lb leaders and size 20 self tied flies from fen drains, fin perfect dace on the stick float from...

I bloody hate him and river monsters. A series of programmes full of bugger all. Also hate Wilson, Hayes, Chris bloody Sandford and all the rest of the celeb/tv anglers who haven't got a clue about fishing. Thanks, I enjoyed that.

Love that first pic.

Great stuff, thanks for that.

Thanks Foxfish. Yes, reactor! So, the CO2 inlet needs to be not to far down the tube for the bubble to be swept away and not too near the top so it doesn't pop straight to the surface? If there is a pocket of CO2 at the top, does some of this get dissolved through the surface? Cheers.

I haven't tried it but I would very much doubt it.

Dumb question, but how exactly do these CO2 diffusers work? I assume a pocket of gas builds up in the top of the tube, is this then just absorbed into the water? And please remember, I am old and simple and need things spelling out......:confused:

Just found this but it's ****** america!!!! Clear PVC Pipe and Fittings - Alsco Industrial Products

A byproduct of Dr Quatermass............

Not the dissolvable type ;) I use flouro carbon which does just what it claims......ie, virtually invisible.

Many thanks!

I seem to keep mine better in a bucket than in the aquarium........................

Certainly interesting reading on the DIY in line reactors. They seem to make a massive difference to the amount of CO2 actually absorbed. I'm always striving to have the least joints possible outside of the tank but I may have to make an exception here. Are the reactors best pre or post...

Thanks, all.

Thanks, Billy. Yes, I think you may be right...it seems close...but not close enough! That Dennerle looks nice.

But...you cannot change the output pressure if you ever need to. I had a email conversation with the guy at CO2 supermarket who told me they worked fine with UP atomizers but mine doesn't. The atomizer is supposed to work on 1.5 bar. I have asked the guy what pressure his regs work at but he has...

Canons have the "live view" feature which means you can look at the picture you are going to take on the full screen at the back. As you then adjust aperture, exposure compensation or whatever, the view changes before your eyes! Great for sunsets and the like. Fen sunset by threequartersky...

If you get a DSLR you can expand as time goes by, as dosh allows, and as you want to try new things (which you may well do). You can be much more creative and learn how things work with the DSLR, thus improving your skills and opening up new fields for you.

Would be 2 weeks max I guess. Wouldn't want to leave them that long, especially the manic zebras...!

Nonsense, thank you for your input. Tablets may be the answer.

It's for when I'm away. Jetting around the world at the taxpayers expense, visiting my daughter in New York, that kind of thing......

I want something reliable, thank you......

Any recommendations, please? Cheers.

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I wouldn't know.....I've never been that flush ;)

I have one of these rated at 1.5 but it won't work for me UP Internal Super CO2 Atomizer (G-024-L) Atomic Diffuser Reactor | eBay

It is very light...

I've bought 2 regs, one off the for sale section on here (tmc v2) and a CO2 supermarket one. Neither of the buggers will adjust :mad: Still, you live and learn. Eventually.

Everybody's a bloody master joiner these days.......;) Great job.

Just ordered some CO2 tubing....

I have recently "rescaped" (in the loosest sense of the word) for this very reason. I have a side mounted spraybar and the diffuser ( plastic from AE, only £18 delivered!!! though it does give a fine bubble ), is placed below a Newave circ pump. I have tested it all by dropping some meth blue...

Upped the period to 8 hours and things are looking much better! Cheers!

Cheers, mate. it could have been worse. Lost 3 fish I think and rescued 6 from the filter.

If you decide to remove the filter inlet guard so you can place your CO2 diffuser right under the inlet, when you later decide to move the diffuser to a different position in the aquarium, ALWAYS remember to replace the guard. Otherwise, your fish will end up as mince, FFS :banghead:

Apparently, they can't.

Can these regs be adjusted to increase/decrease the output pressure? Cheers.

No mate, the flow rate is fine. It's hard to say whats going on inside the filter cos you can't see, of course, but I think it's very possible that all the bubbles could join together to form a big one, then when that goes into the impeller..... I guess it would be better if it was a fine mist...

No, I don't get fine bubbles at all. I haven't soaked them but I do up the pressure steadily.

Due to the fact that I cannot seem to get a nice fine mist from any of my diffusers, I placed them under my Tetratec filter intakes. When I checked my tanks this morning, one of them had no flow but the pump was still running. The water in the filter was quite warm. I took it apart to make sure...

I was just gonna say that........ :confused:

I'm no expert but I'm sure I have read that they need to be put on separately.

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I would say that seeing as chlorine values can vary, it would be safer to use a treatment product.

Many thanks all. :thumbup:

.....survive with the pump turned off? I'm thinking of doing a rescape and if possible will be able to just disconnect the filter. It's the usual ceramic rings, plastic balls and course foam jobby. Cheers.

Thanks, all.