Airstones

[Olive]

Ooohh..I see now! Atfirst i thought that the line would go into the lid of the bottle but you just poke a hole in the side and make sure its sealed when you put the line in. Wow this sounds really simple!!

Is this what it looks like?..Well the basic idea:

Sorry if the letters are a words are a little messed up

Thanks for all of your help Lateral!!!

did you make that drawing littlehurleybunny?

 

[Lateral Line]

I always put the hole in the lid, but it could go through the side. The reasons I use the lid is that 1) it is the highest point, so the froth on the top of the reaction mixture, (the gunk), has to travel further before it reaches the tube, 2) the lid is much easier to work with since you can readily get to both sides of the hole.

Otherwise, yes, easy.

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

There is no real "one size fits all" answer to this. Airstones increase surface agitation, there is very little Oxygen or CO2 disolving into the water from the stream of bubbles itself. In highly stocked aquaria, surface agitation is good as that is where Oxygen is disolving into the water. In most cases however, the outlet from the filter is agitating the surface, the role of the airstone then becomes simply decorative, some people like them. Personally, I do not.

Surface agitation allows CO2 to come out of solution, so if you have a CO2 injector, the airstones are driving the CO2 out before it is getting used, you are thus pretty much wasting your time injecting it.

With low to medium light plants, CO2 injection is not necessary, their metabolic rate is slow enough to use the available CO2 from your fish etc. High light demanding, fast growing plants will benefit from CO2 injection as there will not normally be enough - without supplement, lack of CO2 will be the limiting factor for your plant growth.

You can buy all kinds of CO2 systems, there are pills and potions which you can buy, which are clean and easy but don't work very well. Simple CO2 reactors using yeast and sugar can be bought, or very simply made, these work fine, but require regular maintenance, (I use home made reactors). There are also very fancy systems that use high pressure CO2 gas bottles - these work fine, but are very expensive.

I hope that covers the questions! If not, ask away!

Cool with this you make CO2 and Alcohol!!! ye ha i knew i love fish......

 

[fozzy_wozzy_woo]

Cool you can win in two ways here.

1. you can make home made wine and CO2 your tank.

this is how.
1. get your wine makeing Jars 5 Gallon put your suger in fruit juice and your tempered water of 23deg. place in your Yeast. and mix almost instantly you start to get CO2,

2. Instead of having your S bend in the top of the bottle you place the end in your tank.... the CO2 Will blast into your tank for around 3 - 4 weeks.

3. one you have big green plants, Drunk fish, And you get around 5 gallons of Wine....

but I think you would also need to have an air stone in here as their would be so Much CO2 pumping in the system I think it would replace all the O2

 

[Bol]

but I think you would also need to have an air stone in here as their would be so Much CO2 pumping in the system I think it would replace all the O2

No.

As far as I know, the CO2 will not "force out" the oxygen. They're separate.
It is possible to have too much CO2, but that does not imply a lack of oxygen.

Also, I used to brew beer. I'm not sure I'd use spirit brewing as a source of CO2 for your tank, because I'm pretty sure that (in making spirits) CO2 is not all that is released. Might have some other organics, too, which would probably be bad for your tank. I could be wrong.

 

[lilhurleybunny]

Lol..I think I'll just stick to the yeast and sugar idea lol.

Olive- yes I did that little illustration in paint . Do you like it?

Thanks for all your help guys!!! My fish are currently battling some ich and stress so it may be a little while before i get to make this contraptiion -.-. I think ill print out this topic for future reference for when i DO make it .

Thanks again for al your help!! I'll post again if i have any other questions!

 

[Olive]

Lol..I think I'll just stick to the yeast and sugar idea lol.

Olive- yes I did that little illustration in paint . Do you like it?

Thanks for all your help guys!!! My fish are currently battling some ich and stress so it may be a little while before i get to make this contraptiion -.-. I think ill print out this topic for future reference for when i DO make it .

Thanks again for al your help!! I'll post again if i have any other questions!

I LOVE IT! Seriously, I know how hard it can be to draw in paint, so good job!

 

[lilhurleybunny]

Thanks Olive!!!! I always seem to get my point across with pictures .

 

[Lateral Line]

A picture paints a thousand words, one of my more recent "pieces" can be found in this thread.

Enjoy!

 

[lilhurleybunny]

MASTER PIECE!!! SHEER PICASSO!!!

 

[Olive]

Thanks Olive!!!! I always seem to get my point across with pictures .

I am that way too, very visual.........

 

[lilhurleybunny]

Lol yeah im like that too! I'm always drawing pictures at the top of my papers.

 

[Olive]

Lol yeah im like that too! I'm always drawing pictures at the top of my papers.

Oh wow, do you do doodles everywhere? Have I met my long lost "twin"? He hee just kidding........

 

[lilhurleybunny]

Lol YEAH!!! **hugs!!** Where have you been all my life?!?!

 

[Olive]

Lol YEAH!!! **hugs!!** Where have you been all my life?!?!

Apparently I have been in Oklahoma..........LOL!


How in the heck did we get so far apart?