After much research about how great live food is for your tank, I have decided that I would like to make a phytoplankton reactor. I have based most of my ideas off of the aqua medic plankton light reactor below:
I would like to use 6" acrylic tubing 26" long~1G with a 54W pc light leftover from my freshwater tank. The cylinder will have cones on either opening; one for a splash guard, air release, and the other to more easily keep the phyto from the bottom. Air will be pumped into the bottom I will eventually be getting a CO2 tank to increase growth rate, but I was wondering if anyone has tried using yeast to create the CO2 for this purpose. It seems like it could be done, but probably would not be enough and would not really be "adjustable". To automate it, I will use two dosing pumps. One will pump the water from the reactor to the tank for feeding and 5micron filtered water from the tank to refill the reactor. The other will add the fertilizer to the reactor. If anyone has thoughts or criticism, they would be greatly appreciated.
I would like to use 6" acrylic tubing 26" long~1G with a 54W pc light leftover from my freshwater tank. The cylinder will have cones on either opening; one for a splash guard, air release, and the other to more easily keep the phyto from the bottom. Air will be pumped into the bottom I will eventually be getting a CO2 tank to increase growth rate, but I was wondering if anyone has tried using yeast to create the CO2 for this purpose. It seems like it could be done, but probably would not be enough and would not really be "adjustable". To automate it, I will use two dosing pumps. One will pump the water from the reactor to the tank for feeding and 5micron filtered water from the tank to refill the reactor. The other will add the fertilizer to the reactor. If anyone has thoughts or criticism, they would be greatly appreciated.
