I need co2 for my tank. I wanted to use baking soda and vinegar. I dont have any yeast right now so I cant use the yeast and sugar method. Would the bakingsoda and vinegar method work? How long would it last me? How much baking soda, how much vinegar? I have a 2 liter bottle. Plz let me know how to do it.
I have never heard of using backing soda and vinegar for DIY CO2. The reaction between the two is pretty fast and is over quickly. I don't think you would be able to get enough CO2 into the tank to make it worth while.
The only time I used this method (which failed) was triing to compact the CO2 into a container. Will be triing it again but right now I am doing a compacting with yeast so far it is working but I am going at it a little bit at a time and wouldn't suggest it becouse it could be a little on the dangerase side.
I am creating a vacume in a small homemade pump and then running my reaction which will fill the vacume. When the vacume seems full I unlock the handle and push the current CO2 into a tank. I then pull back up on the handle and I have the vacume back. When I did this with baking soada I ended up with a bunch of foam in my tank but I could have remidied this with additional space. Please don't try this becouse it could be unsafe. I am a person who likes to learn and invent but I have ended up in the hospital becouse some of my exparaments went very wrong. One thing I can think of is when I was triing to make a moter that ran off gun powder it worked fine untill it somehow overloaded and exploded I ended up with shrapnal all over my legs. I know this went kinda off subject but it just flowed out sorry.
Oh yea right now I have about 80PSI of CO2 in the tank. I am going for 120 wich is the tanks rating.
I tried experimenting with baking soda and vinegar to see what would happen. After the initial explosion, what was left in the bottle did bubble and produce CO2, but only for about 10 minutes. So don't bother.
I have heard of people using the vinegar and baking soda method to increase CO2 levels in sealed greenhouses, but not in aquariums. I believe they would use an IV drip to release the vinegar on a pile of Baking soda, this avoided the violent reaction that others noted.
For DIY, plain bakers yeast is fine. Some would say that brewers yeast is best since it can live in higher alcohol levels but I think other factors are more important, such as using a reactor. Using some type of reactor with your CO2 will make the biggest difference is getting usable gas to your plants.
By the way, even if someone didn’t have enough money to buy yeast they can still have some fish in my opinion. Perhaps if someone isn’t attentive enough to use spell-checker they shouldn’t have fish
yeah you can get those little packets in the baking isle... and why cant you just hold off till you get the yeast... baking soda and vinigar arnt the greatest time... (you better off exhaling into your tank)
