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Old 14-05-2004, 06:11 PM
Bob Alston
 
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Default co2 reactor: Larger or multiple?

Suggest you consider:

1) Using your original reactor with bio balls on the output side of your
canister. Avoids the debris.

2) Run a powerhead, with a prefilter on it - through the original reactor.

3) Get two power reactors - the big ones - from Plantguild
http://www.plantguild.com/html/reactors.html
I have one in my 55 gal which works great.

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Bob Alston

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"Chris_S" wrote in message
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I've tried a number of different methods. We have a 100G tank with double
overflows.

- I had built a diffuser with balls in a chunk of PVC pipe. It worked,

but
the ball stack kept getting clogged up by debris. Also got bubble in the
tank. After I while I got fed up with that and junked it.

- Then I tried feeding the CO2 into a cansiter filter. It worked really
well with the Magnum 350, but it never worked worth beans with my Eheim
2226. Depends on whether the impeller is at the top or bottom of the
canister. The CO2 will of course all build up at the top, and this is

just
no good with impellers at the top. Magnum was at the bottom.

- The way I am doing it now works super. I have one of the Lifegard AF-92
heater modules. I inject the CO2 after the pump into the heater inlet

under
the tank. The CO2 builds up at the top of the heater chamber. The only
place for it to go is into the water. I get 100% diffusion. No lost CO2

at
all, no bubbles ever in the tank. Even with DIY CO2 I can easily get

40PPM.
Highly recommended if you have such a heater.

Chris.




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