Any Recommendations On A New Co2 Kit?

[Jenks74]

Hi all,

After struggling on with buying cheap Chinese co2 kits, the time has come to try and find something a little bit better.

Would rather buy a complete kit, something that i could hide away in the cabinet rather than going down the route of making one up with fire extinguishers - has anybody got any experience with any that there happy with?

Thanks in advance for any replys.

Nick.

 

[Ps3Steveo]

You can buy FE CO2 kits on aquarist classifieds, that's what I'd recommend as they last forever, I think the ones you find buy companies like JBL are z rip off.

 

[CezzaXV]

I've been wondering this too. Not sure I trust myself to do the DIY FE as if it goes wrong I could die lol.

 

[Jenks74]

I've been using one by a company called 'waterlife', which i'm guessing by all the chinese writing is made in china

It's a 90 gram bottle, and i've used two bottles since the 2nd week in january. I'm only using the co2 maybe for 5 hours a day, after i get back from work - was thinking that maybe i had a suspect regulator/or a leak?

Have heard that the most 'cost effective' way of doing it is with a fire extinguisher, but tbh not sure that i look of it an would rather look at options.

Regards nick.

 

[DrRob]

you could always go for the welding cylinder option, up to 600g a pop and cheaper to set up than the FE sets. More compact too and less likely to blow up your living room.