I TRIED ADDING SPARKLING WATER TO MY AQUARIUM AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED!! CHEAP DIY CO2??

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2 жыл бұрын

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@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

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@thomasstevens8095 2 жыл бұрын

aquario co2

@thatoneguy_0218 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@extraitsgeneraux2130 2 жыл бұрын

How to communicate with you if I allow Algeria

@fudhailiyyad 2 жыл бұрын

I think if the flow of the outlet filter are strong it will make co2

@antonije 2 жыл бұрын

@@fudhailiyyad That will make more O2 not CO2 and that's because there will be better water circulation :)

@Organic_Body_Transformer 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! I saw a video about your method! Good to hear it's working for you

@agungandriawan1752 2 жыл бұрын

sound great ! Can you share in facebook or instagram? im so curious

@Organic_Body_Transformer 2 жыл бұрын

@@agungandriawan1752 I can, are you on any Facebook groups?

@agungandriawan1752 2 жыл бұрын

@@Organic_Body_Transformer what group?

@no1epiclagg320 2 жыл бұрын

Hi you could upload it to youtube

@philcarlino6942 2 жыл бұрын

Love the effort and creativity you put into all your videos. A very unique channel. Thanks for sharing!

@kevinmccall2484 2 жыл бұрын

Ive been wanting to try this out of curiosity. Love this series of videos co2 vs non co2

@youtubeviewer9523 2 жыл бұрын

This was a super interesting experiment, so cool, keep up the great work Mark!

@thomasrudd4347 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@ikanpari24 2 жыл бұрын

really educational experiment mark. the patience of you making this video is really admirable.

@bubblerings 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@darrenderousse4804 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as always Mark! Your content is always so informative and entertaining! I might be trying dyi co2 in the future!

@Kurokami002 2 жыл бұрын

"the moss has transformed quite a bit" *shows aquarium with big text over the moss*

@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

My bad 😂

@atharvainteractives9250 2 жыл бұрын

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 👍

@majorbruster5916 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@aqhan Жыл бұрын

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.

@sunaymukherjee7576 2 жыл бұрын

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 !!

@kade7071 Жыл бұрын

I enjoy this kind of experiment a lot. Very fun video and helpful for us budget tank owners!

@Vivra_Verra____ 2 жыл бұрын

You're one of the most interesting KZfaqrs I've watched. I wish your tanks and plants well. I know since adding co2 my plants just started exploding.

@Natquascape 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@BB-bv6uq 2 жыл бұрын

Really excellent experiment 🧪 I had never thought about that, another awesome experiment in aqua scaping. Thanks for sharing 👍✌️

@eltrangster 2 жыл бұрын

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. :(

@toob95 Жыл бұрын

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

@jairocardenas1516 2 жыл бұрын

Excelente video, aprendí mucho, gracias por tu tiempo.

@lmarinovich1134 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@setesuper4611 2 жыл бұрын

Always great videos, thanks for share!

@BuzzDee22 2 жыл бұрын

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

@apss5736 2 жыл бұрын

Love these co2 videos

@filipesemiao8644 2 жыл бұрын

What a creative idea

@thinhtran4653 2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos man

@morneschaap2944 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks so much

@tombarb2864 2 жыл бұрын

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 🏄🏼‍♂️

@alakimibid 2 жыл бұрын

man love the vids, keep it up!

@Sea-cucumber1151 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic idea

@Aquagold.goldysingh1313 2 жыл бұрын

amazing testing. always get best information from you legend. goldy

@SlickNick3 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for testing this Mark! I’d never have the guts to try it myself 😂 pressurized co2 all the way 💯

@marcindziedzic1960 2 жыл бұрын

To eliminate the problem of salts concentration, you can use a kitchen carbonator to saturate distilled water.

@MrDoldora 2 жыл бұрын

I love your Mythbusters aquarium experiments. 👍😄

@Troklo 2 жыл бұрын

Super cool experiment

@cerenyilmaz4430 2 жыл бұрын

Geweldig en lekker goedkoop ga ik uitproberen hoorr

@nate6390 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video Marc.....I use nothing but citric and soda...in my opinion yeast is the cheapest but citric is the best diy method....

@njbaquatics4827 2 жыл бұрын

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

@TwistedHigh 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting video! The entire CO2 vs no CO2 is very interesting to me.

@IAmNoeyes 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video

@theonghantan862 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing 🤝 enjoy the vedio Cheers

@ElderPinto254 2 жыл бұрын

dat geen goedkoop boek!! erg mooi!!

@mayukhbera 2 жыл бұрын

Next twin-scape project idea - " DIY lights vs Brand lights"

@rafameza4186 2 жыл бұрын

Outdoors lamps is a good contender to a brand light

@fishcakefi6263 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@rickyabdullah4758 2 жыл бұрын

Nice experiment 👍🏻

@marcwalker2300 2 жыл бұрын

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 👍

@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

Great suggestion! I might do a video on that in the future!

@marcwalker2300 2 жыл бұрын

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.👍

@colingee6687 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@shadyrasheed522 2 жыл бұрын

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 🥲

@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd like to use more spraybars they are definitely beneficial! Great to hear the CO2 is working!

@johneales9490 2 жыл бұрын

Another informative video

@SteveFloit Жыл бұрын

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.

@slinkyscapes8530 2 жыл бұрын

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 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

Wondering what's going to happen! Definitely don't add any livestock and keep us posted!

@andy_warb 2 жыл бұрын

mad man! Can't wait to see how it goes!

@skunkon2492 2 жыл бұрын

I want an update too :D

@slinkyscapes8530 2 жыл бұрын

Just planting it up now, check updates on my Instagram

@JuanSalazar-xk3lq 2 жыл бұрын

Interested... Thanks.

@thekbshouse 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@MrOnlymoin1 2 жыл бұрын

loved it.

@DRaquascapes 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@wds525 Жыл бұрын

12:14 thank you for saying that, 'cause I was just about to try it. =P I love your videos.

@katherinenyborg5854 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@adrianradu2332 2 жыл бұрын

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

@marektouran4777 2 жыл бұрын

Cześć,, bardzo fajne masz te akwaria,,👍

@helbrassen4576 2 жыл бұрын

I've just started to use a co2 generator and it seems to me to be the most cost effective.

@spookybuk 10 ай бұрын

Guess I can try using a little bit of it once in a while, like I would a fertilizer.

@aniketmohite1450 2 жыл бұрын

Superb content

@glennmac9116 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@barneyicycool89 2 жыл бұрын

Nice experiment bro, just wondering when u put sparkling in your tanks,do we need to turn off co2 system?? Thanks

@johnnycrommenackervanden8857 2 жыл бұрын

Haha, MJ. World famous from Dutch tv . Now on air on RTL4 Chapeau MJ, nice promotion of our hobby Greeting to Maarten as well when you see him Monday. Johnny

@CorninAtURD 2 жыл бұрын

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

@michaelbelanger8246 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@janvanrookhuijzen8309 2 жыл бұрын

This method works great. At least if your goal is to greate more plastic waste.

@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

😂

@davidl6566 2 жыл бұрын

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

@salsakrs 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@teddydunn3513 2 жыл бұрын

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

@karnze8070 2 жыл бұрын

Use a sodastreamer to make it more cheap, also you can do this and use your own tankwater

@daniel.likes.sharks 2 жыл бұрын

wanted to suggest the same thing. I wonder if that would work.

@karnze8070 2 жыл бұрын

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

@contaco45 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ortisumbara4314 4 ай бұрын

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…

@Stevenco9124 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@JhunDumsTVXj 2 жыл бұрын

Wow beautiful

@rickspringer4814 2 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering how your parameters like gh/kh and ph changed as well

@FatherFH 2 жыл бұрын

Rest is when living things grow. Try longer night/dark periods with an air stone as plants use oxygen in the dark.

@nirvanaquatics 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Joshua-uq9zw 2 жыл бұрын

Link?

@reptidan Жыл бұрын

This is actually quite nice if you co2 bottle is empty and cant get a refill within a couple of days.

@demonvalak4831 2 жыл бұрын

Mark Best of the best...

@ol8719 2 жыл бұрын

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 ;-)

@youtubeviewer9523 2 жыл бұрын

Please try passive co2

@joeanthony7933 2 жыл бұрын

Great experiment, thanks for your thoughts.

@tjablaj 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@MarkGardiner1976 Жыл бұрын

Maybe buying a cheap second hand soda stream might be a good idea? Thanks for the video.

@DannyWensveen Жыл бұрын

Hey MJ, mooie video’s man.. maar kleine tip: Do It Yourself = DIY, DUI = driving under influence 😂

@MamathaBenerjee Жыл бұрын

Love from India . May I know what you are growing on the driftwood

@thomasknudsen4880 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, i have a question. Have you ever seen an inline fertilizer that goes to the filter outline hose? Want to keep the tank clean with as little stuff visual. Thank you

@MJAquascaping 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I have! I think this guy can make it www.co2reactor.nl/

@irtehdar2446 2 жыл бұрын

How about making a hole in the bottlecap and connecting it to the tank via airline hose.. So the sparkling water is not getting in contact with the tank water but as the co2 is released it is forced through the airline hose and into the tank water bubbling out gradually.?

@typicalg7051 2 жыл бұрын

What if you just have a drip mechanism?

@atharvapatil3248 Жыл бұрын

Do we need to add the conditioner?

@kinoshita8133 2 жыл бұрын

Can you put a small chunk of dry ice into a sealed bottle with a let off valve to slowly release the built up co2???

@ryanbarton6739 2 жыл бұрын

My A.R. c leaves are curling iv been adding calcium but doesn't seem to help. Do you have any suggestions. I'm using aqua soil and lean liquid fertilizer dosing in a nano shrimp tank 3.5 gallon.

@MrKillerHobbes 2 жыл бұрын

maybe using a syringe will minimize the co2 lost to air when pouring and then adding a servo and raspberry pi to depress the syringe slowly throughout the day. bro what is the lily pipe and skimmer intake set on your tank beside your laptop? which brand? thanks!!

@eimanzacharyabukassim3253 2 жыл бұрын

this is genius

@jamesgunderson9744 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jamesgunderson9744 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jbmurphy4 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jbmurphy4 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@zanddroid6289 2 жыл бұрын

Im in love with the way u talk, not ur aquascape... hi 🙂

@marielevine5624 2 жыл бұрын

Can C02 be used with sponge filters?

@soulkeeper3828 Жыл бұрын

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