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Originally Posted by Oreo
OK, but lets say you bought a 2 liter bottle of carbonated water at the grocery store. How much of that would you add to an aquarium to achieve the results your looking for?
The reason I ask is this... You can buy a CO2 bike tire pump for $15, and for $2 you can get a shrader valve at an auto parts store. Put this shrader valve in a 2 liter bottle cap, fill the bottle with water & preassurize the bottle with CO2 using the bike pump. Stick it in the fridge for a day or so & you've got carbonated water just like you buy at the store. Now if you can add that to your tank once in a while... I don't know if that's an easier solution then the ones you guys are already doing with the yeast & all that.
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you could... but co2 has to be constant. you dont want the level to fluctuate, so you would need to add the carbonated water at intervals through the day. also if its the kind of pump that uses the disposable cartriges like you would use for a pellet gun or something... i think these are 12 gram. you would go through them like crazy.
it would be cheaper and far easier, just to produce the co2 fairly consistantly with fermenting sugar water in an old soda bottle.