How do you hide the bottle with yeasts?

[hwofnt]

While I don't use it now, I'm still curious how do you hide the CO2 producing bottle with yeasts?
I kept mine elevated on the box near 10g tank, or on the piece of the plastic on the top of the tank. Both were quite noticeable. Any better ways to do that? At the same price

[Carl]

Could you take a picture of this set up?

Maybe I and others can come up with some ideas.

Carl

[hwofnt]

This tank doesn't exist anymore, I'll try to find pictures later, but it was like that (see drawing attached): 2L coca bottle with yeasts, bubbles of CO2 come into the bell (for keeping them longer in water), bell is upside down flattened transparent container with the suction cup.

Here are photos, 2005:

Bottle is on the top, on the right. No better shots, sorry. I'm just curious how to do that, maybe I will need it later.

Before CO2, young tank:

[hwofnt]

Attachment didn't show up, changed .gif to .jpg and tying again:

[Carl]

First, nice aquarium & cure Cat!

I am not sure how to hide your yeat reaction bottle, but the first thought is maybe small potted plant (either real or artificial) that can be drapped around this and blend in with you planted freshwater aquarium.

Carl

[babygeige]

I keep my CO2 bottle under my tank inside the stand cabinet. I have a check valve in the line to keep it from siphoning the water out in case the CO2 flow stops. Of course , my tank is no where near as gorgeous as yours was, so maybe you get better CO2 flow out of yours since it's on a level with the tank...

But from what I read, it seemed that most people do keep theirs under the tank.

[Suzie Q (Lori)]

I did the same thing...under the cabinet...I used a back-flow thingy on mine..find them in any fish store (sry for no real details..on my phone at the Dr with my son again).

[hwofnt]

Obvious, but I didn't think about it by myself: using plant for camouflage or bottle under the stand. Thought that only pressurized CO2 may have sufficient pressure

Thanks for the kind words about the tank. It was set using soil and vermiculite blend under the gravel (there was well known website describing that method), and Flourish tablets near the plants.

But I'm unlucky with freshwater, marine is much easier, but carrying buckets of salt from the store far away becomes a problem. Have to think about simplifying or, rather, making things easier to care (less walking, carrying and bending). Maybe somewhere exist balanced tanks that require water changes once a month or even less, but not fed tanks in my humble experience.

[babygeige]

Carrying buckets around does get old!
Depending on where your tank is located in relation to a sink, the python is something similar might be nice to think about. Just hook the hose up the faucet, and use it to siphon the water out, then reverse it to add water straight from the sink to the tank.

[hwofnt]

Alas, saltwater has to be prepared in advance, dedicated trashcan or plastic barrel take place too. Bucket I'm referring to is a sea salt sold in 5g buckets, quite heavy and shipping became cost-prohibitive after last prices hike

I have Python, though. Is tap water permissible for FW tanks? For saltwater tanks there is high pressure to use reverse osmosis water only. And when do you add tap water conditioner?

[babygeige]

I'm not sure when you'd add the water conditioner. The directions that came with my python actually say that since the water gets oxidized or something (I can't remember the exact wording), then no conditioner is necessary. I don't have the science knowledge to know if that is true or not, but it kind of makes sense.

I have well water, so I don't worry about conditioner. Maybe you could just have the water run over the spoon full of it, so that it gets distributed as the water comes out of the hose.

[Carl]

As babygeige noted, well water generally does not require conditioner.

When using hoses, or Python type device to fill a tank, I add some conditioner at the beginning of the start of fill, then I continue to add the rest of the required amount of conditoner as the tank fills.

See this article for more:
Aquarium Cleaning; Refill

Carl