C02 System Please

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Can any give me some good link to a pressured c02 system. It will be going on a 400 liter tank which hopefully will be fairly well planted.

Thank you for any help you guys provide.

Joel
 
This ebay seller sells suitable CO2 systems for a lot less than in the link above, you could also just buy a regulator and solenoid from this seller and use a CO2 fire extinguisher, the small 500 gram CO2 cylinders will not be much use on a tank of 400l, its far to big, you would be swopping the CO2 cylinder very regularily for a new one as the old one runs out, this will get tedious and expensive very quickly. You really need a 2 or 5kg cylinder for a tank this size.

ebay

I think a couple of people in this section of the forum have bought from this person with no problems.
 
Or try Aquatics - Online

They have several Co2 systems.


All of which are not really suitable for a 400l tank for the reasons i stated, the 500g cylinders are to small for a tank this size, this is a 100 gallon tank, how many 500 g cylinders will you go through per month at about 4 bubbles per second?
 
Just buy an adaptor for the plug, i picked one up easily for a solenoid i bought from Germany but not from this seller, the adaptors are widely available i have seen them in several places since.

Both look good although the main difference seems to be the reactor or diffuser, i think an external reactor will work better for your tank, this is plumbed inline on your external filter, the glass diffuser may not work so well for a 100 gallon tank, you may get uneven distribution of the CO2 throughout the tank. You can also build your own external reactor as well if you wish, there are lots of plans on the web if you do a search.

I dont know if its worth auctually buying the cylinder from the ebay seller unless you know somewhere that can fill it for you, you would be better off finding out through your yellow pages etc somewhere that auctually does CO2 refills and buy a cylinder from them directly and then you will be sure that they will refill it for you, or a fire extinguisher is also another option.
 
I aready have the Dennerle Classic-Line pressurised cylinder Co2 system.

Do you guys know if the regulator valve supplied with that Dennerle setup will work on a normal CO2 fire extinguisher? :look:
That would save me a lot of agro with refills :hey:
 
Not sure if this is of interest to anybody
Ebay UK CO2 system - Ends soon !

........... no it's not my auction !

I was watching it, but have decided against bidding ... I'm not ready for a third system just yet !


hmmmm wonder if thats the same RYO that won the auction that posts here, probably is, nice price anyway, can't complain about that.......bargain
 
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Not sure if this is of interest to anybody
Ebay UK CO2 system - Ends soon !

........... no it's not my auction !

I was watching it, but have decided against bidding ... I'm not ready for a third system just yet !


hmmmm wonder if thats the same RYO that won the auction that posts here, probably is, nice price anyway, can't complain about that.......bargain


Not sure if its RYO from this forum .... I've seen that ebay user chasing some other CO2 kit in the past (kit that I now own :hey: ).
I was seriously tempted to try snatch this one up, but as I only bought another kit last week I thought better of it !

I will need a third kit in a few months so that I can get all my tanks onto pressurised CO2, however I need to upgrade the lighting on the last tank before I increase the CO2 much more .... it's doing fine on DIY for now!

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Yup was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, gone pressurised on both tanks now :D
Ive now got my self 2x 500g bottles and a 2kg fire bottle. the spare 50g will be used as a spare while other bottles get refilled.
The first set of valves was from paraquatics cheers for that link Zig. Just waiting on a solanoid and a deffuser.
 

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