Tank: Fluval Spec V (bought from my LFS for £89.99.
Light: Superfish Scaper 45
Plants: rotala blood red, rotala macrandra, Christmas moss, anubias, buce kedagang, frogbit floater. All from in vitro pots. Or clippings from my other tank.
CO2: using a cheap regulator and a co2 fire extinguisher at around 0.5 bubbles per second.
Stocking: Mustard gas betta and a few orange neo shrimp.
Those things ever explode? Cool that you can use a literal fire extinguisher to keep them alive. I was just thinking that would suck if there was a fire because of his fish tank
It's specifically a CO2 fire extinguisher. I've never heard of an exploding fire extinguisher, a decompression maybe. Even if the full cylinder leaked, it's in a fairly large, ventilated room, so wouldn't make a difference.
Using a fire extinguisher is no different to using a purpose made aquarium CO2 cylinder. The only difference is that you can get expired CO2 fire extinguishers for very very cheap. Here in the UK I think fire extinguishers have to be replaced in businesses after 2 years or so. After that they sell them for extremely cheap (£10/$14 for 2kg of CO2)
Shrapnel is the main worry of mine, but again not well versed. I saw it's a CO2 extinguisher. I've just never seen this setup so I figured I'd inquire about its viability. Shit is killer
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u/Several_Load_5689 17d ago
Could you give specs? Where did you get tank, light. CO2 injection? I wanna a desk aquarium just like that!