Diffusors

[BigIan]

pop it on the left hand side by the filter inlet and it should be fine

 

[Miss Wiggle]

that was my thinking, hmmm might get one of those


or there's the ADA pollen glass, sure that'd be nice and quiet

 

[nry]

For the spiral one, I don't think the bubbles can be knocked out: the bubbles travel up the inside of the spiral tube: as they travel up the spiral they create a current which will drag water through the tube, the water that exits the tube will have the CO2 dissolved into it. If that makes sense?!

 

[Miss Wiggle]

For the spiral one, I don't think the bubbles can be knocked out: the bubbles travel up the inside of the spiral tube: as they travel up the spiral they create a current which will drag water through the tube, the water that exits the tube will have the CO2 dissolved into it. If that makes sense?!

perfect sense! thanks

i thought it was a sort of open spiral that sits in the tank and the bubbles go up and round it, which would then obviously leave them prone to being knocked out of the spiral.

so if i sit it so that where they exit the tube is a high flow area so the Co2 enriched water gets blasted round the tank would that be good?

 

[BigIan]

For the spiral one, I don't think the bubbles can be knocked out: the bubbles travel up the inside of the spiral tube: as they travel up the spiral they create a current which will drag water through the tube, the water that exits the tube will have the CO2 dissolved into it. If that makes sense?!

perfect sense! thanks

i thought it was a sort of open spiral that sits in the tank and the bubbles go up and round it, which would then obviously leave them prone to being knocked out of the spiral.

so if i sit it so that where they exit the tube is a high flow area so the Co2 enriched water gets blasted round the tank would that be good?

yep.

also if you can keep the co2 bubbles in the water for longer then you get better diffusion

 

[nry]

I'm beginning to wish I tried one of the small ceramic glass diffusers before I upgraded my lighting recently. One of those tiny glass ones would be much easier to hide than the plastic ladder from my Nutrafin kit: I'd rather not mess with CO2 again for a while, though the spiral one mentioned above looks like a decent half way house, small but simple!

 

[voo]

Interesting, i never thought ceramic diffusers would make any noise. Is it similar to the noise an airstone would make? Is the noise from the bubbles reaching the surface or going through the plate?

As for a diffuser, why not use a ladder?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

Interesting, i never thought ceramic diffusers would make any noise. Is it similar to the noise an airstone would make? Is the noise from the bubbles reaching the surface or going through the plate?

As for a diffuser, why not use a ladder?

not sure what exactly is making the noise tbh voo

ladders just a bit big and ugly, wanted somethng small, simple and effective...... just didn't realise that meant i had to have crickets chirping in my ear all night..... makes a change from Ian's snoring though lol

 

[BigIan]

its from the co2 going through the plate....

and the ladder is UGLY!

 

[SuperColey1]

Why not go to Aquatic Magic on ebay and get a Rhinox 1000 if you have a smaller tank (this is up to 60Ltr)

I have a Rhinox 2000 in my 29G with 2 nutrafins going into it. works a treat, but it did also come with crickets included.

Andy

 

[Themuleous]

I changed to a ceramic in my nano for the very reason that the ladder is awful!

Yeh the noise is from the CO2 being pushed though the ceramic plate, I think so anyway.

Sam

 

[Miss Wiggle]

bah, spiral diffusors sold out on AE and i can't find anywhere else selling them or even anything like them!! bugger

 

[BigIan]

http/cgi.ebay.com/Spio-Infinity-Co2-diff...bayphotohosting

 

[Miss Wiggle]

tis OK, richards getting some in in about a week, by the time that's got here from malaysia it'd be here anyway! (plus then you get some more aqua points)

 

[BigIan]

only took 3 days last time from malasia....
and they have those cool stamps