nooB c02 help please 🙏🙏🙏

[Trailblazur]

Was finally thinking about adding the COOP regulator and cO2 to my planted aquarium. I’m a complete noob to c02 as far as that goes tho.
 

It’s a 220 gallon 8’ ft tank. What do I need to consider as far as diffuser placement to maximize effectiveness🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🙏 Or I suppose I could run it through my sump for better circulation 🤔🤔🤔

I’ve only seen videos that show the small in tank diffuser, which I can’t imagine working as intended in my size tank OR an in-line diffuser for a canister, but I’m not really looking to add a canister to my sump lol  

I have two return pumps in my last return chamber in the sump and they push up to two return loc lines (one on each end of the tank)

They are both at water level right now to help break the surface tension and so there wouldn’t be a potential humongous water back siphon into the sump.

So not sure how to make this work lol.

Thanks for any tips🙏🙏🙏

[Mmiller2001]

You’ll want to run a reactor on a tank that size.

[Trailblazur]

On 11/2/2023 at 9:34 AM, Mmiller2001 said:

You’ll want to run a reactor on a tank that size.

Ok thanks… guess I’ll have to do a YouTube search for c02 reactors lol 😂 

[nabokovfan87]

On 11/2/2023 at 6:29 AM, Trailblazur said:

Or I suppose I could run it through my sump for better circulation 🤔🤔🤔

You definitely want to utilize the sump and have in-line or have a reactor for the CO2 in place.

Hit up @Mmiller2001 journal to check out his setup. Apart from the view of the plants there is a lot of details and insight about running CO2 in there as well.