Nolapete
06-27-2007, 9:10 PM
Yesterday, I ran the new CO2 setup at 1 bubble per second and it knocked the pH down from 8.0 to 7.7.
I picked up tests for kH and gH today and found out what I already knew that I have really hard water:
kH 7
gH 14
I had the CO2 line force in the back of the Aquaclear 500 to where the bubbles were trapped under the plastic rack and sponge and didn't see any escaping.
After running all day today, the pH was still at 7.7, so I decided to crank the bubbles up to about 3 per second. This didn't work with the AC reactor setup, so I pulled out the sponge, stuck a piece of rigid tubing on the end of the CO2 hose, then placed the rigid tubing in the bottom on top of the grate then pinned it in place with the sponge. I started seeing a few tiny bubbles collecting at the surface of the sponge, so I placed another AC sponge on top of the first. No escaping bubbles so far.
I'm going to build a real reactor, but I wanted to try this idea first.
I picked up tests for kH and gH today and found out what I already knew that I have really hard water:
kH 7
gH 14
I had the CO2 line force in the back of the Aquaclear 500 to where the bubbles were trapped under the plastic rack and sponge and didn't see any escaping.
After running all day today, the pH was still at 7.7, so I decided to crank the bubbles up to about 3 per second. This didn't work with the AC reactor setup, so I pulled out the sponge, stuck a piece of rigid tubing on the end of the CO2 hose, then placed the rigid tubing in the bottom on top of the grate then pinned it in place with the sponge. I started seeing a few tiny bubbles collecting at the surface of the sponge, so I placed another AC sponge on top of the first. No escaping bubbles so far.
I'm going to build a real reactor, but I wanted to try this idea first.