Diy Mix + My Starter Kite = Help Needed!

[Neal]

Ok, I have a Sera Co2 Starter Kit, and I wondered if I could do a DIY kit for this, if so please tell me how. I know you can make one for Nutrafin kits, but I couldn't find a Nutrafin anywhere.

Thanks,

Neal

 

[Luke_e]

http/www.aquatics-online.co.uk/Z079196.asp
Nutrafin kit .
Not sure if you can do a diy co2 on a sera, do you have any pics of what it looks like set up? Does it have a canister, diffusers etc?

 

[Neal]

I don't even know how to use it properly with the tablets, nevermind a DIY mix.

This is the box of the kit, basically showing all the things, it's just that on the box.


These are the tablets that are suppose to be put in and suppose to last hours, they last minutes for me.


Neal

It's no good telling me where to get them now, I have a Sera kit and i'm not paying for another one.

 

[Luke_e]

It's no good telling me where to get them now, I have a Sera kit and i'm not paying for another one.

Ok ok mate, i'm only trying to help.
If no one has replied by tomorrow i doubt anyone else uses on of these sera kits.

 

[Themuleous]

I very much doubt you can, the only way I can think of is to make a yeast chamber (like the nutrafin bottle) out of an old coke bottle, but if you're going to do that you might as well just make a whole DIY system.

I hope I dont put to much of a downer on thing, but I also ver much doubt if the kit you have is any good sorry

 

[Neal]

I knew I shouldn't of bought the bugger, well I suppose I can't take it back now, i'll have to make do with it and eventually figure out how to use it.

Neal

 

[gizmo001i]

When the tablets disolve, the CO2 remains in the diffuser, where it slowly disolves into the water over a period of a few hours. I don't know how good it is, but you will see the water level in the diffuser slowly rise as the CO2 gets used up. The only way I can think of using it, is as Themuleous says, make up a DIY kit using a bottle. Then you could feed the CO2 to the diffuser via the hose. You could either feed it down the shoot for the tablet (would look a bit messy). Or you could drill a hole at the bottom of the unit (under the gas chamber) and then feed the hose into there and seal it with aquarium safe silicon. To be honest, I would buy a dedicated diffuser which has a hose fitting on it already if I was going for the DIY setup.