Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

[Zulaab]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

Take pictures MB !!   We want to see the starting pictures of the tank.. :) :) :)

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

:furious:

Okay, I've got another question. Would it be okay to silicone the CO2 tubing to my nano diffuser? One setup is doing well and staying together, but the other one keeps slipping off. After redoing it about 5 times last night, I finally gave up.

I've found Rex's tubing to be a bit stiff, and I think that's part of the problem, along with the fact that it's a bit smaller in diameter than regular airline tubing (so it doesn't fit over the bump on the diffuser). I don't want to wait to figure out what I need in order to connect "regular-sized" tubing to the irregular sized chack valve. So, if I could just silicone them together, that would be much easier. I'm just wondering if for some reason that would do any damage to the glass or the tubing, or if something weird would happen because of the CO2.

Any advice would help! Thanks.

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

Oh, and BTW...Pictures won't do any good. Both of these tanks have been set up for a couple of weeks now...one without CO2 but with plants and a betta, and LOTS of algae, and the other without any living thing until I got the CO2 up and running. So, if you can imagine, they both look pretty terrible. And all these fluctuations aren't helping, either.  

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

you are suppose to covert it right at the tank from the poly/co2"proof" tubing to silicone, if not you will break the diffuser.

I have the ADA install kit or part of it somewhere....let me look for it.

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

you are suppose to covert it right at the tank from the poly/co2"proof" tubing to silicone

I'm not sure I understand what you mean...

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

misspelled words in there...


If you got that rigid co2 proof tubing from rex or just about anywhere that stuff is really solid. I run that from the co2 regulator up to the tank and right at the tank I put a check valve, on the other side of the check valve I use silicone tubing to the diffuser.

The rigid stuff will/might break your diffuser one day when you are trying to get it on there.

I have one of the clippard brass check valves somewhere as wells as partial ADA co2 install kit....gotta find it all though.

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

Okay, I get it now. Thanks.

The rigid stuff will/might break your diffuser one day when you are trying to get it on there.

Yup, one's already in the trash.  

I actually tried what you're saying, using the rigid tubing up to the check valve and then running some other tubing (pretty sure it's silicone, I'll have to check to make sure) from the check valve to the diffuser, but the tubing was too large, and wouldn't fit snugly over the valve.

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

So, can I use silicone or not?

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

I would use the shortest length possible and change it every few months but yes.

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

Okay, now I realize the problem. I don't mean silicone TUBING, I mean GLUE. Like, can I use silicone glue to seal the diffuser to the tubing?

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

oh, That's kinda janky.....why not just use a piece of silicone tubing? work it all the way over the end/ring and it will stay... but if you are really set on it then use the silicone glue.

It might just build pressure there and blow off anyways though.

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

The silicone tubing slips right off the check valve, the tubing's diameter is too big. So I would have to order another kind of barb from Rex Grigg, and wait for that to come in the mail, and all the while my tank's going crazy with all the fluctuations.

Sigh.

You're probably right, though. I mean, connecting the tubing I have right now to the diffuser is kinda scary, I'm afraid it will break each time b/c I have to really force it. So, if the pressure can pop that right off, I guess the silicone adhesive won't last very long, either.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

I have a stainless checkvalve that came with a bubble counter I got also have about 4-5" of ADA gray silicone tubing if you need both hold onto the silicone tubing fine.

You can run the check valve you got from Rex on the poly tubing and then use this check valve in between the silicone and poly.
LMK if you want it and I'll bring it to work with me.....

If I do bring it though you will have to look for my car and get it off the windshield or something cause I have training classes today and might not be able to get out to meet you.

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

Oh, wow, I would love it! Thanks!

Umm, if you want, you could text me sometime after 4:00 today, and we can figure it out from there?

Thanks so much!

[Mzungu]

Re: Help with CO2 setup (Please!)

:bsty:

Everything was still connected this morning!