Hey all,
So Amber won the January meeting's big raffle, which was a phyto reactor. Needless to say, I had this bad boy up and full of phyto before most people got home from the meeting. During the meeting Chriskid mentioned the addition of CO2 being beneficial to a phyto culture. Off to youtube I went to find the planted tank guys had already come up with a DIY CO2 "reactor" that will pump out enough CO2 for up to a 40 gallon tank. Thinking that's plenty more than I'll need, I went ahead and built myself one.
So here's a write-up for anyone interested in starting their own phyto, but the thought of adding CO2 seemed like only an idea.
This was the reactor right when I got it setup. (Hopefully Chriskid can chime in with the species of phyto)
Here it is right before I added this new rig
So Amber won the January meeting's big raffle, which was a phyto reactor. Needless to say, I had this bad boy up and full of phyto before most people got home from the meeting. During the meeting Chriskid mentioned the addition of CO2 being beneficial to a phyto culture. Off to youtube I went to find the planted tank guys had already come up with a DIY CO2 "reactor" that will pump out enough CO2 for up to a 40 gallon tank. Thinking that's plenty more than I'll need, I went ahead and built myself one.
So here's a write-up for anyone interested in starting their own phyto, but the thought of adding CO2 seemed like only an idea.
This was the reactor right when I got it setup. (Hopefully Chriskid can chime in with the species of phyto)
Here it is right before I added this new rig