Can a regular power filter be used as a reactor?

jabce85

jabce85

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Jul 12, 2003
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I am currently in the process of a DIY yeast CO2 system. I was just reding up on some stuff, and I thought I saw somewhere that you could do this, but my only question is how? Would you just drill a hole in the intake to the filter and put the tubing there so the impeller would such the CO2 bubbles up into the filter and dissolve them that way? Or are you not even supposed to use a powered filter. My filter is a cheap Top Fin filter, the kind that such water in through a tube and pour it back into the tank. So my question is... will this work?! Suggestions please...
 

jabce85

jabce85

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Okay, since no one answered my post, I'll answer it myself. I did some researching after posting this, and I found out that the answer is yes! lol All you have to do is lead the tubing from your DIY CO2 system into the bottom intake of your filter. Then, the filter does most of the work by sucking the bubbles into the impeller and dissolving the CO2 into the water. There, I answered my own post! haha...
 

sailfinmolly

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jabce85,

That's how I have my co2 being dispersed. I have a wisper filter, and I just drilled a small hole in the bottome of the intake pipe, and then placed a bubble stone inside at the bottom of the intake pipe.

The reason I used the bubble stone was because I was afraid that if I didn't the bubbles would be too large and make to much noise going throught the filter.

The propellor in the filter shreads the co2, and it seems to work fairly well. I have hard water and when I started using this technique my ph levels dropped quite a bit, and my swords really took off.

good luck
sorry I didn't catch this post sooner.
sailfin:)
 

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