How to Setup Your CO2 System

[BlueRam]

IUnknown:

Whoa. Visions of thin bulb shield under pressure AND below the level of the tank. Might work if in the tank but thick 1/8'? 1/4'? clear (or not) PVC outside for piece of mind?

[audiotaylor]

No, fluorescent light covers should work. There's barely any pressure in the reactors as the water is just passing thru them. The hardest part I can see to using those is finding pvc fittings for the end caps that would fit them perfectly. I use a gravel vac for my reactor and it works great.

I have the bubbles injected at the bottom as Im only using an eheim 2013 which doesnt produce very fast flow. I also have my reactor between the intake from the aquarium and the filter intake instead of between the filter output and the aquarium. I figured this would help any escaped bubbles disolve by getting chopped up by the filters impeller and/or getting trapped in the filter floss/sponges.

-David

[ColinAnderson]

Originally Posted by Silent Running

Great diagram Colin, thanks for posting it! It completes the mental picture of the way I thought the system was supposed to be setup. ...

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Silent Running

... Where do you get clear PVC, or acrylic (if that's what you use) that marries up with 2" PVC components?

As to that ... I have yet to find any hardware store locally that has clear PVC (though I haven't really looked in any of the specialty hardware or smaller hardware stores). You might try PMing Troy (Glass-Gardens.com) and asking where he gets his clear PVC (or heck, buy a reactor from him; that's what I did. ).