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I plan on having a 50 gallon planted tank with pressurized CO2 in my bedroom. Do they add any odor to CO2 or do they make CO2 gas detectors for the home? I would prefer not to die or anything in my sleep
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At 6% CO2 in your room you would be dead! Take my word for it. In a former life I managed a laboratory animal facility and the standard way to humanely euthanize an animal was with CO2. At low concentrations the animals fell asleep and died.I just ran through the math and an entire 10lb tank dump into a sealed volume of my room at STP is only about 6% of the room volume. Seems really low to me, I'll have to check my math.
Sleep with one of these just to be safeMaybe a dropchecker by your bed?:lol:
How do you train the rabbit to wake you up when it detects the CO2? (It is amazing how much good stuff you can learn on this forum!)Get a rabbit. If the rabbit starts to freak out, time to open a window and run a fan. Animals that live underground are excellent low-O2 detectors.![]()
It would go crazy and bounce around the cage, which would trigger a trip-wire that you setup, which would pull on a string, dumping ice cold water over your head from a bucket you rigged to hang from the ceiling. Only thing was that you'd need to put fresh ice cubes in the bucket every night.How do you train the rabbit to wake you up when it detects the CO2? (It is amazing how much good stuff you can learn on this forum!)
Thank you. I asked the wife and she said, go for it. So, what breed of rabbit do I look for? We have plenty of jack rabbits, big fellows, here by the river. If I can negotiate a contract with one, would he do?It would go crazy and bounce around the cage, which would trigger a trip-wire that you setup, which would pull on a string, dumping ice cold water over your head from a bucket you rigged to hang from the ceiling. Only thing was that you'd need to put fresh ice cubes in the bucket every night.![]()
...and it still wouldn't be enough CO2 to kill you...In practical terms, this is not one of the top 100 things you need to worry about. A burst disk can empty a CO2 tank in a matter of seconds, but that's pretty rare and usually only happens if the tank heats up or is overfilled. If the safety disk does rupture, the resulting noise is loud enough to wake up dead people three blocks away. No human on earth would sleep through it.
Ultimbow, I think you're talking about CO detectors, not CO2.... and if you are realy scare of it go to a store where they sell gas stove or gas system when you have one of those it is a law to have co2 detection system witch can be conect to a emegency central.