Co2 Values

[mrjezzi]

I've just bought this kit from ebay from LunaPet. The regulator is in BAR rather than PSI and I was wondering what values I should roughly set up...

Tank measures 60-65 bar, On the low pressure side I can make it anything from 0 to 4 or 5 bar. I pressume that the lower the better? I can then adjust another tap to regulate the bubbles entering the tank.

It is currently set to 1 bar and I'm using the second tap to control the bubbles per second and a Red Sea CO2 indicator which is blue at the moment so will continue to open the taps? Any help appreciated, the LunaPet stuff is very good quality from what I can see and is very affordable! ...but comes with NO INSTRUCTIONS... There's a lot of inspired guesswork going on!

 

[Themuleous]

I've got two lunapet regs and both are excellent IMHO. Set the second gauge to around 1.5bar, you dont want it to high really, but equally not to low. 1.5 to 2 would be ideal.

I would up the bubble rate slowly, over say a day or two. I assume you are using the 4dKH water in the red sea checker?

You are right about the lack of instruction, although there is only really once place for everything to go, so setting it up shouldn't be too much trouble, then you have us lot to help with the rest

Sam

 

[mrjezzi]

Myabe you and i should start our own forum sam?! I seem to ask a question and you answer it for me! lol. I'm currently set up at 1 bar and it appears fine. The Red Sea indicator is a bluey-green at the moment so I think I'm on track. Thanks again mate.

jerry

 

[Themuleous]

haha, just a slow day at work but happy to help. Are you using 4dKH water? I cant say I have any personally experience of the red sea checker, but the key to all these things is the water inside it, to give accurate colour readings it needs to be 4dKH exactly.

Sam

 

[mrjezzi]

haha, just a slow day at work but happy to help. Are you using 4dKH water? I cant say I have any personally experience of the red sea checker, but the key to all these things is the water inside it, to give accurate colour readings it needs to be 4dKH exactly.

Sam

I'm not at the moment but I might find out how to make it as I've just ordered stuff from aqua essentials and don't plan to for a while. Strangely I started using rainwater rather than tapwater to perform the water changes each week and noticed that is is pretty much 4dKH... I might have stumbled across a 4dKH factory!

 

[Themuleous]

To be honest, its more hassle than its worth trying to make it, but guess it cant hurt giving it a go!

Sam

 

[mrjezzi]

To be honest, its more hassle than its worth trying to make it, but guess it cant hurt giving it a go!

Sam

Yesterday was my day off, I gave it a go. All I can say is that even with scales accurate to 0.05g it was a total waste of time! Aquaessentials.co.uk were good enough to email me a dispatch note this morning so not too long to wait anyway. To anyone that is thinking about making their own 4dKH solution... don't!

jerry

 

[Themuleous]

Haha repeat that every time you see a thread on it which will be almost daily

Sam