Co2 Tubbing?

[Zaphod]

Where can I get c02 tubbing? I need some to go from my co2 tank to the calcium reactor. preferably somthing i can buy at home depot. Does it need to be co2 safe? what size?

 

[Zaphod]

nobody? I need an anwser by tomorow.

 

[Avast Marine]

You can use airline tubing just fine. It may leak a micron of gas here and there but it is just fine. Just so you know I own a restaurant and we have no less than 600 feet of co2 tubing running quite a few tanks and all proffesionally installed with.....you guessed it standard airline 3/8" ID tubing. Been installed many years with zero maintenece.

 

[Zaphod]

can I pick it up at any fish store?

 

[Avast Marine]

or HomeDepot

 

[Zaphod]

Cool. so the airline 3/8" ID tubing is the size that goes from the regulator to the calcium reactor right? what section in home depot can i find it?

 

[Avast Marine]

Now that I am really thinking it through first off you need to look at your needle valve on your regulator and see if it has a compression fitting or a barbed fitting. If it is barbed use the airline if its compression use rigid tubing like for icemakers or RO. Its in the plumbing section. Take your regulator or just the fitting with you so you get the right size.

 

[Zaphod]

ok cool. probably ailine it is a jbj regulator and the end for my reactor is barbed. I loook forward to aimlessly wandering the pluming section as usual.