Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
DIY CO2 (now running)
In my experience the silicone always leaks, no matter how carefully you apply it. With the CO2 quite alot of pressure builds up, as you may find out if the system springs a leak and you're trying to get the beer smell out of the furniture
. I'd use the bulkheadsI always had a good deal of surface agitation on my tanks so leaving the system running at night was not really an issue for me, especially if I turned down the CO2 output.
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Mix is 2 cups cane sugar and half tsp bakers yeast, no Brewers yeast locally available.
Tank as of 02 Mar 2015
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Kinda unavoidable with DIY Ibelieve but I have lots of surface agitation and I think production goes down at nigh as temp drops in room.
Was thinking of only running air pump at night but a bit worried about siphon while pump is off.
I'll know more when I get a co2 measurment gonna get the jbl test
Trying to turn off a DIY system can lead to an exploding DIY system
Because the connections are never going to be as good as you'd like, eventually the pressure will build until it finds a point of weakness (usually around the cap or the first valve) and then your having to wipe badly made home brew off your walls, ceiling and possibly yourself
Why not just get a check valve for the airpump?
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I was thinking of adding a T and then putting an air flow valve off that that I could open to relieve pressure or vent co2 at night but not sure how well the valve will close
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The first was what you see on line with 2 bottles in series, I used tec 7 on that.
Then I thought I would like to see how much co2 was coming from each generator so I decided to run them separately into the gas separator and did that with the model air plane bulk heads but the bulk heads did not make a good fit to the 4/6mm hose so they leaked.
So uarujoey says the silicon tube makes its own seal so I gave it a go and he is right.
Still didn't get test but will post readings when I do.
This plant seems much better but that is partly due to me putting a root tab under it
Probably nothing new in this but thought I would share
Dec
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Just trying to decide if I will go for the tunze reactor as it costs about the same as a flipper.
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