My adventures into CO2 land (hope this is helpful)

OK so kinda of a long post about CO2 and my experience with it.

~I've tried the Dennerle yeast and sugar method. TWICE!....it's crap, it doesn't work.
~I've tried the DIY Chinese CO2 Generator with baking soda and citric acid. It works BUT!!! It only generates a bit over 100 ml of CO2 and you have to weekly refill it.
So.. I threw it away.
There might be different brand stickers on those kits but they are all the same, made in the same place in China, the resellers just add their own brand sticker on them.

I wanted CO2 but having a refillable cylinder was out of the question. Did a lot of research and I've discovered pressurized disposable CO2 cylinders.

1. I've bought the cylinder 0.5l for tesing purposes. I have it running for 2 months, 3 bubbles/second and i'm very happy with it. It costs ~$30 And it's made in Italy. It has a M10x1 thread!



2. Got a made in Germany pressure gauge/reductor for ~$70 It's important to always check the thread as there are many variants and if you have a M10x1 cylinder, you need to have the same type of reductor.



3. Got a Milwaukee solenoid valve for ~$60



4. The black CO2 hose and the ISTA diffuser (with built-in bubble counter and check valve)...each at a price of ~$10

As i said I'm more than happy with the system so when this cylinder empties (i guess in 1 or 2 months) i'll get the 2.5L one also disposable. It's ~$50 and of course the thread is M10x1

The tank looks like this:

thanks for detailed description
one thing, i don't see many co2 requiring plants in your tank tbh, no carpet, few stem ones, except that hydrocotyle leucocephala all others are slow growing ones
maybe you should consider growing carpet with all that co2?

Well CO2 has many benefitis. From keeping algae down to helping in the rapid growth of all plants. Since the previous post, the lotus doubled in size, the aponogeton has 4 new leaves and 6 new baby leaves popped on the Anubias Nana. I will add 3 more anubias, an aponogeton ulvaceus and a buce.

Keeping a carpet feels kinda tedious, plus i think that the corys and the ram will tear it apart.

ah yeah with these fishes it's hard to have unestablished carpet, maybe something like sagittaria subulata with deeper roots can fill it up slowly, anyways, happy that plants are growing well all buces are great

This is how my lotus evolved from sunday until today thanks to CO2 and ferts.