Diy Co2

[Kombat]

I am using a 2l soda bottle with the nutrafin ladder. I was getting white, cloudy stuff gunking up my ladder. The yeast mixture never bubbled up, so I guess somehow solids were being carried with the gas. Well, I installed a trap using a 20 oz soda bottle as I've seen suggested here in a few places. But I am still getting the white stuff coming out.

Thanks,
Karl

 

[Themuleous]

Sounds like white fluff to me a very common 'problem' with yeast CO2. The only solution I have found it to effectively 'clean' the CO2 before it enters the tank, using a bubble counter. You say you have a trap between the yeast bottle and the tank? Does the trap contain water? If not, try attaching a piece of pipe to the CO2 inlet and half filling it with water, so the CO2 produced goes through the water. This does mean you get the white fluff in the trap bottle but better than being in the tank and on the ladder!

Do you use bicarb? Some people say that in hard water areas added bicard will make it worse so leaving it out can stop/reduce it, but I didn't use bicard and still had this problem, with my liquid rock water.

Or you could just switch to pressurised!

Sam

 

[ChrisC]

Hmm thats very interesting, thanks Sam for the information! I've never heard of this before. Anyone have any idea as to the cause of it? A by product of the reaction?

Chris