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ghengis, how the heck did you get that video in your signature and why can't I double click on it to see it bigger?
bsmith782, I also use a 3 liter bottle for my DIY CO2 reactor with a 'snot bottle' in between to catch any 'spill'. Can you see the bubbles going into your intake tube? I currently have a cut a clear small soda bottle that I put on my intake tube. It looks like a clear umbrella. I just have the silicone tubing with a stiff tube on the end pointing up into the clear 'umbrella'. I do this so I can see the bubbles to make sure it is working.
I would love to use a ceramic diffuser just because I think the super tiny bubbles look cool. I would love to watch them dissolve before they get to the water surface in my 75 gallon tank. Or watch them get sucked up into my Rena XP2 canister filter.
ara35, the part to focus on is the size of the hole that you DRILL into the top of your 3 liter (if you can find them that big, I do recommend that size - buy the soda bottle and dump out or pour out for your kids to drink down). Make sure you DRILL the hole. You want to look at the drill bit and make sure that it is SMALLER than your air hose. DRILL the hole, do not nail the hole - you might crack the soda bottle top. THEN take the air hose and CUT the hose diagonally to make this weird shaped hose with a skinny tip - and then STICK THIS INTO THE TINY drilled HOLE. Here comes the funny part if you are not handy (I am not); take a pair of pliers and PULL the skinny tip of the air hose THROUGH THE drilled HOLE. If done right (not easy for me - I had to redo this a number of times), the air hose will be tightly held by the soda bottle top, the hole in the tubing in the soda bottle top will be narrow - but that is okay you want to build up pressure and you don't want to lose this pressure to leaks from cracks.
For some people this is easy. For me this was not and took a couple of tries for me. But once you get this down pat, the rest is easy(er).
I don't know if it matters if you have a ceramic diffuser or not. Someday I will get one. So far, I have not yet.
Play with it. Have fun. You can always improve it more later.
grim has a good sense of humor. Wait until he sees Jimbo in person doing something like this. He will be rolling on the floor laughing. Picture the office guy (financial services) working with his hands with pliers and a drill. Shop guys can do this stuff blindfolded. Watching office guys like me try to do this is just plain funny.
You will get it. Take your time and go easy on yourself.
If Jimbo205 can do it, you can too!
bsmith782, I also use a 3 liter bottle for my DIY CO2 reactor with a 'snot bottle' in between to catch any 'spill'. Can you see the bubbles going into your intake tube? I currently have a cut a clear small soda bottle that I put on my intake tube. It looks like a clear umbrella. I just have the silicone tubing with a stiff tube on the end pointing up into the clear 'umbrella'. I do this so I can see the bubbles to make sure it is working.
I would love to use a ceramic diffuser just because I think the super tiny bubbles look cool. I would love to watch them dissolve before they get to the water surface in my 75 gallon tank. Or watch them get sucked up into my Rena XP2 canister filter.
ara35, the part to focus on is the size of the hole that you DRILL into the top of your 3 liter (if you can find them that big, I do recommend that size - buy the soda bottle and dump out or pour out for your kids to drink down). Make sure you DRILL the hole. You want to look at the drill bit and make sure that it is SMALLER than your air hose. DRILL the hole, do not nail the hole - you might crack the soda bottle top. THEN take the air hose and CUT the hose diagonally to make this weird shaped hose with a skinny tip - and then STICK THIS INTO THE TINY drilled HOLE. Here comes the funny part if you are not handy (I am not); take a pair of pliers and PULL the skinny tip of the air hose THROUGH THE drilled HOLE. If done right (not easy for me - I had to redo this a number of times), the air hose will be tightly held by the soda bottle top, the hole in the tubing in the soda bottle top will be narrow - but that is okay you want to build up pressure and you don't want to lose this pressure to leaks from cracks.
For some people this is easy. For me this was not and took a couple of tries for me. But once you get this down pat, the rest is easy(er).
I don't know if it matters if you have a ceramic diffuser or not. Someday I will get one. So far, I have not yet.
Play with it. Have fun. You can always improve it more later.
grim has a good sense of humor. Wait until he sees Jimbo in person doing something like this. He will be rolling on the floor laughing. Picture the office guy (financial services) working with his hands with pliers and a drill. Shop guys can do this stuff blindfolded. Watching office guys like me try to do this is just plain funny.
You will get it. Take your time and go easy on yourself.
If Jimbo205 can do it, you can too!
