I've many people asking me how to set up a CO2 system so I'll just share my simple setup as a guide for you guys.
Setting up multiple tank from a single source of CO2 is proving to be a pain, I tried balancing with ordinary aerator splitter, metal lever and plastic screw type and it never work. Or I ended up with the hose exploding out from the splitter when the pressure got intensed. In the end I gave up and found a shop that sells regulator splitter head and this works like a charm. So dun waste your time doing what I did.
And I did not know that technology had advanced tremendously, there is now such thing as atomizer that produces extremely fine bubbles to maximize CO2 absorption. And you will need a bubble counter with the atomizer as you wont know how much CO2 is going into your tank.
You will have many choices to choose the size of your canister, usually from 0.5liter to 5 liter tank. I took the 3liter tank. Of how much CO2 you need to pump into the tank will depends on your tank size and how stagnant your water, the surface and quality of your bubbles. Quality of bubbles is how fine when they are released. I set mine to 5 seconds per bubble, meaning in 5 seconds I will release 1 bubble.
Set up :
1 - Pressurized CO2 Canister
2 - Regulator - get a good quality needle valve regulator, you'll have more precised control and I've heard of low quality regulator exploding which you wont want that from happening.
- Tri-head Regulator (if you intend to setup for multiple tank otherwise skip this
3 - Good quality hose.
4 - With or without check valve is good because we blast the CO2 24/7, so back pressured is not our problem.
5 - CO2 counter - you'll need this to estimate how much CO2 is going in, easier to control or you can just get a 2 in 1 diffuser with bubble counter.
6 - Diffuser
You're good to go with the above.
Happy poisoning your tank
Setting up multiple tank from a single source of CO2 is proving to be a pain, I tried balancing with ordinary aerator splitter, metal lever and plastic screw type and it never work. Or I ended up with the hose exploding out from the splitter when the pressure got intensed. In the end I gave up and found a shop that sells regulator splitter head and this works like a charm. So dun waste your time doing what I did.
And I did not know that technology had advanced tremendously, there is now such thing as atomizer that produces extremely fine bubbles to maximize CO2 absorption. And you will need a bubble counter with the atomizer as you wont know how much CO2 is going into your tank.
You will have many choices to choose the size of your canister, usually from 0.5liter to 5 liter tank. I took the 3liter tank. Of how much CO2 you need to pump into the tank will depends on your tank size and how stagnant your water, the surface and quality of your bubbles. Quality of bubbles is how fine when they are released. I set mine to 5 seconds per bubble, meaning in 5 seconds I will release 1 bubble.
Set up :
1 - Pressurized CO2 Canister
2 - Regulator - get a good quality needle valve regulator, you'll have more precised control and I've heard of low quality regulator exploding which you wont want that from happening.
- Tri-head Regulator (if you intend to setup for multiple tank otherwise skip this
3 - Good quality hose.
4 - With or without check valve is good because we blast the CO2 24/7, so back pressured is not our problem.
5 - CO2 counter - you'll need this to estimate how much CO2 is going in, easier to control or you can just get a 2 in 1 diffuser with bubble counter.
6 - Diffuser
You're good to go with the above.
Tri-head Regulator, atomizer produces amazingly fine bubbles that is almost impossible to capture with my video.
Atomizer CO2 diffuser produce the most fine bubbles, I've to increased the bubbles otheriwse you cant see them.
Needle head regulator with back pressure
Tri-head Regulator, you will definitely need this for multiple setup, simple and perfecto.
Tri-head regulator
Atomizer, amazing bubble quality
Bubble Counter and checked valve
2 in 1 diffuser with bubble counter
Happy poisoning your tank
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