I TRIED ADDING SPARKLING WATER TO MY AQUARIUM AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED!! CHEAP DIY CO2??
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2021
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Any other CO2 alternatives we could experiment with?
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aquario co2
Why didn't you try running airline tubing from the bottle to the tank with a cut off valve that can reduce or stop flow?
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I think if the flow of the outlet filter are strong it will make co2
@@fudhailiyyad That will make more O2 not CO2 and that's because there will be better water circulation :)
Hi MJ,
I have been experimenting with sparkling water for 6 weeks now and I have been getting the same results as a high tech system; in half an hour my tank will be filled with oxygen bubbles.
However, I use a more efficient method and hence the better results. Firstly, I dose 1l of sparkling water per 200l of aquarium water, which is a lot higher than what you have experimented with. Any more and the fish do start breathing heavily, however in densely planted tanks, I can quite easily go for 2l of sparkling water per 200l of aquarium water without harming fish, snails or shrimp. I also redose 4 hours later to maximise the effect.
The other thing is that I do not unscrew the bottle cap like the way you did as doing so causes so much of the CO2 to escape. Instead I submerge the bottle into the tank and then punch a tiny hole with a needle into the bottom of it. This forces the CO2 to efficiently dissolve into the aquarium water. I have plenty of pictures and videos demonstrating the method and the results, but I cannot share them here in the comments, or at least I don't know how to.
As for minerals, then I wouldn't worry about that as they are too few to affect the parameters, but do read the label of the sparkling water bottle before buying.
Hey! I saw a video about your method! Good to hear it's working for you
sound great ! Can you share in facebook or instagram? im so curious
@@agungandriawan1752 I can, are you on any Facebook groups?
@@Organic_Body_Transformer what group?
Hi you could upload it to youtube
Ive been wanting to try this out of curiosity. Love this series of videos co2 vs non co2
Love the effort and creativity you put into all your videos. A very unique channel. Thanks for sharing!
This is very interesting and I have to try it. I have a SodaStream machine at home, so don't have to worry about salts or addons, in fact, I can just used water prepped for water changes and inhect it with a bit of CO2.
ik ben net begonnen met mijn eerste aquarium en het feit dat bijna al je tips bestaan uit LIDL producten maakt m'n leven ZOVEEL MAKKELIJKER
really educational experiment mark. the patience of you making this video is really admirable.
why doesn't anybody say it?
-Your bottle should be kept cold in the refrigerator to stop CO2 from leaving the water.
(then, open and keep chilled)
-Also, have you ever poured (not so cold) beer into a room temperature plastic cup?...
all foam... = goodbye CO2 bubbles.
If you can pour a tiny shot from the cold bottle, it will be more effective... and will hardly chill the tank with such a tiny amount. -Cheers! (if you must measure a shot, use a chilled marked shot Glass)
EDIT: watched the remaining half of the video... Thx for sharing your experiments, especially the yeast-beast!
Your tanks are beautiful!
This was a super interesting experiment, so cool, keep up the great work Mark!
Mark great review, l use ice cubes for breeding Buenos Aires tetras. I tried sparkling water before, it did not end in major success for myself. Keep up the great work!
I enjoy this kind of experiment a lot. Very fun video and helpful for us budget tank owners!
"the moss has transformed quite a bit"
*shows aquarium with big text over the moss*
My bad 😂
What a creative idea
Hi great Video,
i started my first nanotank 2 weeks ago and i keep injecting sparkling water from my sodastream and so far i am very happy with the results
Love these co2 videos
Hi Mark, great experiment. The sparkling water will mainly be carbonic acid (reaction of co2 and water). Therefore, the drop checker will be measuring acidity of the water upon addition of carbonic acid my friend. The carbonic acid to co2 will be in equilibrium with each other depending on pH of the aquarium. Great seeing your videos.
dat geen goedkoop boek!! erg mooi!!
Always great videos, thanks for share!
Really excellent experiment 🧪 I had never thought about that, another awesome experiment in aqua scaping. Thanks for sharing 👍✌️
You're one of the most interesting UA-camrs I've watched. I wish your tanks and plants well. I know since adding co2 my plants just started exploding.
It's about time we saw someone illustrate this. I've never used this method but always knew it would work. It would have been better if you tested the pH, KH and EC before and during the test period. The EC would have given some indication if the salts present in the bottled water were having any effect on the mineral content of the tank. Different brands of bottled water have different mineral content, therefore one can choose the brand which has the most compatible minerals. After all, many of these minerals are present in the fertilizers we add to the tank.
With the exorbitant price of sparkling mineral water (in UK) I suspect that, long-term, this would not be the most economical method of adding CO2.
Fantastic idea
Great video! Thanks so much
Hi MJ. Seeing all your tanks and experiments have really inspired me. I am a newbie to a plant and shrimp tank with no CO2. I feel like this is already a challenge as I've already killed a lot of shrimp and plants. :(
Ooh sparkling water , I never heard of this experiment ! Really hoping that it is successful !
So far I have heard some positive things in the video !!
Love your videos man
Geweldig en lekker goedkoop ga ik uitproberen hoorr
Great video as always Mark! Your content is always so informative and entertaining! I might be trying dyi co2 in the future!
I love your Mythbusters aquarium experiments. 👍😄
Recently and in the past I’ve used distilled water in a soda stream, it worked great and even with blue dream shrimp I added an entire 24 oz sometimes(in a 10 gallon). They didn’t like it for a minute but got used to it quickly, I did this once every while so definitely not regularly. Not to mention I recently added 4 bottles to a new tank which I saw scuds in, this is to suffocate them, along with adding algae fix overdose(kills shrimp so no shrimp were in the tank), which to my knowledge completely killed all scuds in the 5 gallon. But also saw insane pearling on all the leaves!
Excelente video, aprendí mucho, gracias por tu tiempo.
Super cool experiment
Don't worry... Adding it in a limited quantity will not harm your fishes. But it will surely trigger good pearling in your plants... I tried this many times and it works 👍
amazing testing. always get best information from you legend. goldy
The 70’s were good to me but I don’t remember the CO2 part. 🤣🤣Thanks MJ for keeping your content fun and real. As I said before, I have learned a lot from watching your channel. Cheers 🏄🏼♂️
To eliminate the problem of salts concentration, you can use a kitchen carbonator to saturate distilled water.
Nice experiment 👍🏻
man love the vids, keep it up!
Thanks for this video
Nice video Marc.....I use nothing but citric and soda...in my opinion yeast is the cheapest but citric is the best diy method....
I love these experiments be interested to see what results you get from the Ofgas from the bottles if you could recoup some sort of later on the bottle to a bubbler in the aquarium. I know it will be a little bit of messing around but it would still be very interesting you get more consistent levels throughout the photo period I’m pretty sure and I wonder how long one of those small bottles with the last or are you could get two or three days out of it if there was some way of holding the pressure back so you only release what you need some sort of in-line involve Keep up the good work
Thanks for sharing 🤝 enjoy the vedio
Cheers
Hey MJ, great video experiment. I'll try it later for my nano moss tank. And i think you should try experiment with candles or lantern next. Since buring will produce carbon dioxide. Hopefully you'll cover up the video and would like to see the outcome. Thanks MJ.
Interesting video! The entire CO2 vs no CO2 is very interesting to me.
Thanks for testing this Mark! I’d never have the guts to try it myself 😂 pressurized co2 all the way 💯
I use a 5ga CO2 tank with a soda regulator to make my own club soda in soda bottles. It lasts for 2 years and I drink a lot of soda water. I imagine if you use your aquarium water, fill a bottle 3/4 full, then squeeze out the excess air before attaching to soda hose, you will get some great results. Chilling the bottle of aquarium water to near freezing before adding CO2 should get even better results (cold water will accept more CO2). Make sure you cap it and warm it up before pouring into the tank. CO2 tank is cheap to refill at Airgas company, and I think I probably pay about 1 or 2 cents per soda when all costs are factored over 2 years. Currently don't have an aquarium, just doing my research first. Hope this helps.
I attached an inverted plastic gatorade bottle to my filter intake tube with plastic zip ties and directed a airline tubing into the mouth of the bottle. The other end of the airline tubing is attached to the injector of a Sodastream machine. I injected the CO2 from the sodastream into the inverted bottle until it pushed out all the water. The CO2 eventually gets absorbed by the aquarium water over the next few days and I recharge it with more CO2 from the sodastream. It works great. For larger planted aquariums, you can add a second bottle or use a larger plastic bottle. Plastic bottles with larger cap openings will increase the rate of CO2 absorption. Water bottles with smaller mouth openings are ideal for smaller tanks.
Amazing results Mark.
Im going to set up a 30cm cube later, add plants,no livestock.
I’m going to purely fill the tank with Sparkling water, it’s cheap enough to try for a couple of weeks 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
Wondering what's going to happen! Definitely don't add any livestock and keep us posted!
mad man! Can't wait to see how it goes!
I want an update too :D
Just planting it up now, check updates on my Instagram
Another informative video
Interesting. I would like to improve the growth of my moss, but still a little wary of the tanks general health. Maybe direct dosing moss like one would dose excel on bba on anubias?
Interested... Thanks.
Next twin-scape project idea - " DIY lights vs Brand lights"
Outdoors lamps is a good contender to a brand light
FYI PH of the water correlates to your KH and CO2 levels. If you know how much CO2 is in your water you can calculate how much you need to put in your aquarium for it to be safe for the animals and good for the plants.
A liter of sparkling water should bring a 40-55 gallon up to around 20 ppm so it could be a useful tool for getting new plants to grow in during peak photosynthesis hours
Good little experiment nicely documented and presented.
Have you thought of doing an experiment using a Co2 bell ? There are videos on YT with people using this method but for me they seem to be inconclusive... I'm sure you would do a much better job 👍
Thanks for all your work 👍
Great suggestion! I might do a video on that in the future!
I once thought of trying a Co2 bell using Co2 from sparkling water fitting a cap with a feed pipe and valve so I could open the valve to fill the bell and then close off without losing gas from the bottle... It only got to be a thought though as then I decided to get a regulator/solenoid running off a Co2 fire extinguisher... A bell would be interesting for my other tanks.👍
I've just started to use a co2 generator and it seems to me to be the most cost effective.
loved it.
I would strongly advise checking the pH of any sparkling water (especially mineral water) before adding to an aquarium with fish. They are usually very acidic (pH 4-5). Also bad for your teeth if you drink large quantities.
I have used club soda in approximately same proportions. It is only water and CO2. I also add chelated iron, and it caused good oxygen respiration. In the past ,I used yeast CO2 reactors. That is a two litre bottle with rigid pipe attached to a hose inserted into the intake pipe of filter.1.75 litres of 92 degree water 2 cups of sugar and one teaspoon of yeast. Lasts 2 or 3 weeks. Have to put a valve on pipe and turn off at night. I did not ,but never poisoned my fish that I know of.
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12:14 thank you for saying that, 'cause I was just about to try it. =P I love your videos.
Btw I think when you are having a spray bar into your low tech aquarium; the drops that hits the water surface gives a really good mix to the water & gives good aeration which provides gases exchange in the tank; I see my plants pearling! I think for that and the more far the spray bar the more bubbles into the tank. I thought I could share this experience maybe it works, and could help others. Great experiment bro 👍🏼 keep it up; I have been using your diy into my new jungle tank and it works perfect but at the night i remove the hose from the tank because I worry for the fish 🥲
Yeah I'd like to use more spraybars they are definitely beneficial! Great to hear the CO2 is working!
Guess I can try using a little bit of it once in a while, like I would a fertilizer.
My CO2 system broke a couple days ago (O-Gasket crumbled, and it will take a couple of weeks to get a replacement). I have a CO2 charger that I use for making sparkling water for my own drinking pleasure. It would have the same salts, minerals, etc as the water I use for the tanks, and I should be able to dose it with a water conditioner before I use it in the tank. I'm home most days--thanks COVID--so I should be able to break up the doses. I think I'll try this just until my new CO2 system arrives. Hopefully it will tide over my fussier plants until then. Thanks for doing the experiment!
A next experiment I'd recommend about co2 is pressurised (obviously) vs an air stone
All the gas exchange doesn't only help the aquarium stay oxygenated, but if a tank is short on dissolved co2, an air stone should help it Absorb some of the 0.04 percent available in our air
when you bubble air (containing 400 ppm of CO2) through your tank, the CO2 gas will dissolve in the water depending on pH and temperature until the equilibrium concentration (about 5 ppm) is reached. This means you maintain a stable CO2 concentration, which is still enough for most of the plants.
Use a sodastreamer to make it more cheap, also you can do this and use your own tankwater
wanted to suggest the same thing. I wonder if that would work.
Also, i guess you could kinda drip-acclimate the tank with the sparkling water. If you have a bottle you can inject the co2 in the bottle, make a stand to put the bottle upside down above the tank, and drip-acclimate the sparkling water during the day, i guess you would have to refill the bottle every day but i guess it could be a solution
I did something similiar with a spare soda stream. I put tubing on the nozzle and used to to fill a diy passive diffuser i made out of a water bottle in the tank. Worked fairly well.
have you tried fermenting wine in a bottle airlock system or Mixing vinegar and baking soda? capture in a test tube 🧪 and suction cup upside down in the aquarium? I enjoy your videos
I think this is brilliant ,this the answers all along, about concerning salt material in sparkling water…what if neutralize it with oxygenic water or probiotics…I mean I kindda lazy myself to change water on my low tech tank..so every time I see the water condition blur or so many amoniac on the surface..I just poured it much and in a few minutes ahead the water becomes clear again…
Wow beautiful
There’s a DIY bottle method product made by a few different companies that costs around $40usd and it even has a solenoid shutoff valve and overpressure protection. If you have a couple of 2 liter bottles laying around, this is by far the cheapest method to safely inject CO2.
Link?
This is out of the box experiment. I have never heard of sparkling water co2 before. I like the idea, I bn. looking for how to improve my no-filter betta nanos. This is better than the co2 tabs. CO2 cylinder is cheap for me(I buy factory size shared to al tanks) bt can't work in nano tanks. This might give me red plants.
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Rest is when living things grow. Try longer night/dark periods with an air stone as plants use oxygen in the dark.
This method works great. At least if your goal is to greate more plastic waste.
😂
If you don't how much sparkling water you have to add you can calculate it. My sparkling water at home has 7 g/l carbon dioxide. To make it easier 7000 mg/l. If your target is to have 35 mg/l you can use the formula c1*V1=c2*V2. c1= 7000 mg/l; V1= x l (we like to know); c2= 35mg/l (our carbon dioxide target); V2 = 55 l (my volume of aquarium). Then move the formula to V1= (c2*V2)/c1 = 0,275 l = 275 ml sparkling water. But as you said, if your permanent test is turning to blue again you have to add the full volume again? Or not? Well, I keep my little CO2-cylinder ;-) btw: you can calculate how many carbon dioxide you have added if you use 5 ml sparkling water ;-)
Please try passive co2
Nice experiment bro, just wondering when u put sparkling in your tanks,do we need to turn off co2 system?? Thanks
This is actually quite nice if you co2 bottle is empty and cant get a refill within a couple of days.
If this method works better than no CO2 at all, what I'm wondering is could someone not produce and sell a 'sparkling water' specifically for aquariums which lacks the minerals and salts but is carbonated. We know that adding CO2 all at once isn't as good as having CO2 throughout the photoperiod, but if a co2 spike is better than a control of no CO2 at all, then it seems to me like this method would work for at least some people. Compared with the 'bottled CO2' products this at least seems somewhat effective.
Mark Best of the best...
Lol I actually thought about this randomly yesterday "what if you add sparkling water to the aquarium for CO2" and low and behold, people actually tried it. I did know it was going to work, taking it logically, but just as I also thought, there are too many downsides to it. I'll stick to the CO2 cannisters :D I could potentially see this working only if you do it for an exclusively plant-only aquarium
this is genius
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Chapeau MJ, nice promotion of our hobby
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Do we need to add the conditioner?
Echt Marc, steeds beter.
The Amano method!
I'm wondering how your parameters like gh/kh and ph changed as well
Great experiment, thanks for your thoughts.
I have two comments: (1) it’s been my experience that different brands of sparkling water have different levels of carbonation. So it’s really difficult to judge how much sparkling water to use. (2) it seems to me that you lose a lot of the CO2 by opening the bottle, pouring the soda into a container, and the pouring the soda into the tank. I am experimenting adding CO2 by adding seltzer (pure water and CO2). I open a one liter bottle of seltzer just enough to release a small stream of bubbles into the tank. I invert the bottle in the tank and secure it to the side to keep the cap underwater. My plecostomus and MT snails have shown no sign of stress after three hours of infusion. So far the plants are showing no reaction.
Hey MJ, mooie video’s man.. maar kleine tip: Do It Yourself = DIY, DUI = driving under influence 😂
What if you just have a drip mechanism?
Make sure it’s flavorless and free of colors, fruity tastes or sugars - they will be snuck in, depending on the brand, so read labels. I almost did this myself, years ago, until I noticed I had bought lemon sparkling h2o. Great, uggghhh
Also I’m not sure of the effect of the sodium chloride on the overall tank? From time to time I’ve added a pinch of aquarium salt or sea salt, just for overall health, pests parasites etc. not something I did every water change at all. But I don’t know really about sodium chloride. Thanks again for your videos.
Whit Vis or whiteout any Vis in the tank?
A carbonated drink usally have 6-8 gCo2/L. So that's 0,24-0,32 g Co2 added to the tank if you add 40ml.
A value between 20 and 25 mg Co2/L is usally ideal for an aquarium.
The tank is 20 liters so the concetration is 0,24/20 = 12 mg/L to 0,32/20 = 16mg/L.
So you get pretty close to that ideal cencentration of Co2 with this method but only directly after adding the sparkling water. After that the concetration probably decrease pretty rapidly.
Lets compare it to a sodastream bottle.
1l of sparkling water in my counry usally cost 1 euro. so thats 6-8g of Co2 per euro. A soda stream refil costs 8 euro and contain 400g of Co2. That's 50g Co2 per euro. So the conclusion is that you shouln't buy sparkling water.
That's the calculation I went with when I tried that on my no co2 tank. I could see bubbles forming on my leaves and nice growth for the 2 weeks that I did it.
I also tried adding vinegar to my aquarium for a while to lower ph. This results in co2 being produced too, but I'm not sure how much is produced.
Maybe buying a cheap second hand soda stream might be a good idea? Thanks for the video.
Should I add water conditioner in the sparkling water first?
How about trying to introduce co2 to the aquarium with you outlet breath air with like a tube? Will probably be many blows to get good amount but still!
Make a video on redroot floater.
Safe for shrimp?
take an even bigger box around it filled with air, burn a candle in this space, and let it go out on its own, the water will absorb the co2 on its own, repeat every day, the bigger the box around it the more co2 the longer it takes for the candle to go out.
I am trying oxygen output so a candle can stay lit