Co2 Kits, When And Why Would You Use It?

[blendingshadow]

Just bought a 450L tank and it's 150cm long and I am just setting it up. I am going for a heavy planted tank and was wondering what C20 kits are for? When would you use and them and why?

 

[Livewire88]

Plants like trees use up CO2 to grow and thrive, tap water only holds so much CO2 therefore injecting extra CO2 into the water helps your plants get the amount of CO2 that they will need to grow well and keep healthy.

You dont need to use pressurized CO2 in order for plats to grow and keep healthy but it helps a lot

Have a read of this thread, it gives some good detail on using CO2 in a planted aquarium.

CO2

 

[blendingshadow]

Thank you very much for those links they were very helpful.

Certainly learnt a lot from them and they should probably be pinned as so many have already suggested.

The science behind it seems quite interesting and I went to look at the equipment at there's so many other things CO2 related on sites such as http/www.aquaessentials.co.uk/

For instance from the threads I read you needed a diffuser to give you CO2 bubbles and a drop checker to make sure you're not putting to much CO2 in the water.

So what are the CO2 Reactors, CO2 Bubble Counters, CO2 Pressurised Sets / Bottles, CO2 Fermenting and Refills and CO2 Regulators and Solenoids and are they needed?

 

[SO19Firearms]

So what are the CO2 Reactors, CO2 Bubble Counters, CO2 Pressurised Sets / Bottles, CO2 Fermenting and Refills and CO2 Regulators and Solenoids and are they needed?

Reactors - Inline units (from a powerhead or filter) that you inject the CO2 into for maximum disolvification
Bubble counters - sits in the CO2 line so you can have a visual check on the amount of CO2 your using - counted in Bubbles per second etc
Pressurised sets/bottle - What your gonna hold the gas in - including fire extinguishers, disposable canisters, branded refilable bottles, pub gas etc
Fermenting - Yeast and Sugar in a bottle to make algae CO2 dont bother with this for your size tank, same with the aerosol refill jobs.
Regulator - the pressure control that sits on the Gas bottles - Twin or single gauge
Solenoid - Powered valve to turn the gas off at night when the plants dont need it

Needle valve - the fine control so you can set you bubbles per minute.....

HTH