Setting Up My Lido As Ei

[Dave Spencer]

Hi,

Thanks for all the advice have currently been given, now brace yourselves for another question.

Would the JBL disposable 500g refill be compatible with this sytem as I wanted to keep a bottle as a back up (my engineering background, always have built in redundancy) and buying a secong refillable bottle is a bit more expensive?

I was intending to buy the JBL Profi 2 CO2 pressurised system and was wondering whether the extra
investment in the night time CO2 shut off with this system was worth it?

Despite the adverse comments to them on this site I have bought a substrate cable heater. I figure that it may act as further redundancy should the primary heater fail. I appreciate it will not have the rating to keep the water at the desired temperature, but it may prevent too dramatic a drop in temperature whilst I source a new primary heater. I dare say all you people out there that have been at this hobby for years have spares of just about everything.

 

[BigIan]

you will need an adaptor to fit a dissposeable bottle, dead cheap (find your local calor gas supplyer or other air solutions type place Thorite are a good place to look

 

[Themuleous]

I dare say all you people out there that have been at this hobby for years have spares of just about everything.

Sure do! In fact giving a friend a complete setup this weekend, made entirely from spares I have around the house! Including the tank!

Sam

 

[George Farmer]

I have two refillable bottles, one in use and one as a spare, ready filled. You can find refillable bottles for a decent price occasionally on the well-known auction site.

 

[plantbrain]

On large systerms I use redundancy for each system, but you'd been much wiser to have redundancy on the CO2 and filter than the heater.
A good Titanium heater should last for many decades.

Cables.......well, they do heat the gravel.
That's about all they do.
A reptile heat pad does the same thing.

A styrofoam pad is also a lot cheaper than cables.

Regards,
Tom Barr