Tip For Mixing Diy Co2 Ingredients

[jimbooo]

hi everyone.

i know there is already another thread on this i was about to reply in there but some of you may miss it as the thread is well underway already.

when mixing the sugar, yeast and bicarb rather than chucking it all in the bottle and then filling up you can kick start the process by dissolving the yeast first before you put it in the bottle.

it normally takes 5 hours or so for the bubbles to start coming through, this way it's about 5 mins.

just measure your yeast and put it in a mug. then add luke warm water (not hot) and stir until all the yeast has dissolved into a brown milky liquid. then pour into the bottle, rince the cup and pour that in as well then top up from the tap.

just a small tip but i now do this every time, so much faster..

without doing this you get floating lumps of yeast that take a while to dissolve on their own accord.

dont over fill mind you as it'll shoot up the tube more easily than normal. for nutrafins i fill 2cm short of the top fins, that much water is fine.

hopefully someone will find that usefull

 

[shrimply]

I add just enough water to dissolve the yeast and shake it around dissolving it all before I add the rest of the water. The amount of yeast I am using isn't the problem(double what I am supposed to), it is my diffuser. I am too tight to buy a proper one and don't have a spare power head.

 

[jimbooo]

is the sugar in at that point or just yeast. if it's just yeast when you disslove it thats fine.

 

[superjalami30]

Hmmmmm.

I add the sugar, then bi-carb, then the yeast, followed by the luke warm water, stir with a clean plastic spoon and I have bubbles within 10-30 minutes, every time.

 

[EliteFishy]

Great help guys!

 

[RYO]

I add sugar first , bit of hot water to dissolve sugar top off with cold so its tepid, add bicarb then yeast .
As i tend to change my mixes at night I'm not too fussed if the take half hr or so to start working.

 

[jmuccillo]

more yeast plus read my tip on mixing ingredients on the planted board now. it wont be there for long noone seems interested. oh well i tried

Well..... there is a bit of interest.
I used to re-hydrate my yeast in much the same way you have described and got very good results.

Another tip which may be useful in maintaining a steady rate of CO2 production is to keep your mixture at a constant temp, particularly in winter months when the rate can really slow down or if temperatures fluctuate a lot during the day leading to variations in rates of production.

Some people place their mixtures in a bucket of water and throw in a small wattage aquarium heater to keep the temp. constant.

I used to place my canister filter in a polystyrene box along with my bottles of mixture and place a polystyrene lid over it all to insulate it. The water in the filter acted as a heat source and the mixture stayed at a fairly constant temperature.