Rhinox 2000

[Squid]

I've taken the thing out and blown down the tube with it in a glass and i still can't get any bubbles out of it!

Am i doing something wrong, the thing seems virtually air tight.

Squid

 

[SuperColey1]

I've taken the thing out and blown down the tube with it in a glass and i still can't get any bubbles out of it!
Am i doing something wrong, the thing seems virtually air tight.
Squid

pmsl. You can't generate anyewhere near enough pressure by blowing. lol

Try doing it the way the rest of us do and connect it up to your setup

Andy

 

[Squid]

I've taken the thing out and blown down the tube with it in a glass and i still can't get any bubbles out of it!
Am i doing something wrong, the thing seems virtually air tight.
Squid

pmsl. You can't generate anyewhere near enough pressure by blowing. lol

Try doing it the way the rest of us do and connect it up to your setup

Andy

hehehe ooops

.. is this one of those moments where you wish you hadn't asked that question. I thought that i could blow almost as hard as the pressure produced by my nutrafin kit.. obviously not

well it's in the tank now anyway. Oddly though, when i did get some water in the bottom of the diffuser when mucking about with it, i could blow that through the diffuser the other way.. ho hum.. i shall wait patiently and see.

Thanks.. i will stop for a beer after all that blowing.

Squid

 

[jimbooo]

ha ha been there done that

 

[Squid]

Hehe.

It's fizzing like a mad thing now.. probably working with some pressure after a bit of an initial backlog.

If it didd't have just a nutrafin kit behind it (for a while) it would have thought it was providing too much Co2. Was anybody else suprised by the amount of fizz/bubbles/mist they got?

 

[SuperColey1]

Not really. I had nutrafins+ DIY before pressurised and I don't see a huge difference between the amount of bubbles.

Its more the circulation that matters now. Are you getting those bubbles blown around the plants?

Andy

 

[Squid]

Yes... does that make a big difference, is it not the more diffused non visible co2 that will make the difference with the plants?

I did move the diffuser after a while, it was set up a bit below the spray bar which was blowing the bubbles everywhere. Not altogether a great look for the tank It is now set up at the other end of the tank, and the bubbles are being blown across the back of the tank where the majority of the taller stem plants are.

Appreciate the help... thanks.

Squid

 

[SuperColey1]

This is an ongoing (probs never to be agreed upon) debate.

The thinking of some is the more diffused (i.e. invisible) from a reactor is better.
The thinking of others is that the small bubbles are better as they 'stick' to the leaves

The thinking I go along with (until otherwise proven) is the second which Tom Barr talks bout a barrier around each leaf and that the bubbles are able to penetrate this barrier easier. Tom himself would be better to explain this.

Andy