Hello Winter Web nice to see you again. Today we're doing a bit of an unboxing. Oh this thing. This is Ron from Friday Fish Facts. You're watching Aquarium Adventures. So I'll stop at my local fish store, localish fish store today. I'm found this in the bargain bin. It's the Ista. It's the O2 diffuser set and the water plant system. So if you've been watching any of my videos the last few months or this year, you'll have noticed in getting more and more into plants. So 2018 for me has been the year of learning more about plants and how to grow them in the aquarium. And the latest tank that we've set up is this one, which is the Keeper for Tank. So the moment is just three keeperfers and some cherry shrimp. I'm getting on more cake at the moment. But the plants are starting to get a little bit of black beer and algae and some other algae issues. Not but the balance quite right between the fertilizers and the light and the other nutrients. So I wanted to have a go at CO2. And then my plan was to get a proper DIY kit going. But I found this in the bargain basement and it was only four pounds, five pounds possibly. So we'll give it a go and hopefully one day we'll have a playlist of all the different types of CO2 kits that you can get and how they work and how they perform. Because to me it's not necessarily about how cheap it is. It's how good it is. Go the grow the best plant to the quickest. But if it's a fast to use then I'm not going to be interested. So we'll try this one out and see how we got it. So open the box and say we've got some silicon tubing. So that's like your earline. Which is not as thick as some of the earline I've seen before but it's thicker than regular earline. So that looks fine. We have a check valve. A check valve. It's got a little arrow on it to show you what way the flows meant to go. We have a can of CO2 which to be honest feels empty. That's cool. It feels like a dead can. It's got stuff in it. I'm just wondering whether or not that's why it's in the bargain basement. The bargain bin. I won't see. These are cheapest chips. I think you can get them off eBay for something like five per and get you five refill cans. This is never going to be the most efficient way to run CO2 in your aquarium but I just thought it tried it. The last thing in the box is the CO2 diffuser which is this thing. So it's not like your lily pipes and ceramic plates with diffusing. I think the idea of this is essentially connect the CO2 and get the earline. The earline goes in here. This sits in your tank. You fill this chamber with CO2 and then over time it's slowly diluted into the water column. It feels sturdy enough. It's got a couple of suckers. So everybody loves some suckers. So you have your diffuser, earline on the top, other in connected to the can, a check valve in the middle. And that's pretty much it. It's a really simple form of using CO2 in your aquarium. It doesn't get much simpler than that. It's not the most efficient system in the world. It did say something about ratings on here for small aquariums. This design here has got this little bit here. So when this is full you can buy extra ones of these so you can have multiple diffusers. It doesn't look terrible. It's not really good. It doesn't look horrible or anything. So you can have a few of these in your tank. It's about bigger or bigger. We're demanding more CO2. So let's try and get it all set up. So make sure you're well at our own the check valve. You've got that going the right way. So you've got the right end going into the diffuser. And then just pop it in the tank. So I'll just set it up quickly for now. And you can see how it should be done. But if you place it under... It's a place where you get good water movements, good circulation, maybe a power head. And you've got the spray bar as you can see on this tank. And that gives fairly decent water movements so it should be good enough. It's never going to be the most efficient way to get CO2 in anyway. So not all that bothered about it. It should just give us a bit of a boost. So I'll set this in just so you can see it for now. Socker cups as always, never going to be brilliant. Then we get the can. And we attach the can. So in theory, that's it now. From what I'm able to read on the internet because there's not much in the way of instructions. Unless you're a little more fluent in Japanese or Taiwanese or Chinese, whatever that is. And I am. There is a fantastic video online from the guys that make this the... It's the Easter team. I'll put a little bit of that because it made me laugh earlier. Now we're going to introduce the combination of CO2 and CO2. The combination of CO2 and CO2 is the same. The combination of CO2 and CO2 is the same. But anyway, you just press the button, fill this up and you get about 24 hours worth of CO2. So the diffuser itself has this little stopper at the top. And what you do is you take that off and it fills with water. Replace the stopper. And then you crank on your can. This is where we find out whether it's actually got any CO2 in it or not. Crank on that until it fills up. And then the water drops. You know when you've got to the bottom because some bubbles come out the side. And that, and it's simplest form, is that. That's all there is to it. And there we let that sit in there. And eventually that will dissolve into the aquarium. And hopefully we'll see a bit of growth in a little bit less of the algae. That little nubbing that you saw the bubbles come out of. That's where you would add a second one to if it was any good. And you wanted to expand on it. You can buy them separately. So we've got at least a day's worth out of it. Obviously I can't tell right away how that's going because it's going to take a lot longer than 10 seconds to figure out whether or not it's any good. But I can't see any immediate leaks anywhere. I can't see it falling out. So, I'll come back in a few hours and see if it's moved any. So, if I run it in there a couple of hours now, I don't know how well you can see that down there. But the level has risen maybe an inch and a half. So, it's certainly doing a job. How well a job is doing it don't know yet, obviously. I've come back in a month and hopefully we'll have a new video to show you how well it's been doing. So, it's never going to be the best. It's probably the worst way of getting seawater into your aquarium. But it is really easy. Essentially, I have to come out along and press this button once a day. I'm told this should last a month from research. Again, depending on the size of your tank, but for my tank it should last a month. Whether this is truly this empty. And it just lasts a day, I don't know, but again, the refills are pretty cheap. So, that's the one cheap, simple way to do it. It's not going to be the cheapest in the long run. But it's cheap and easy. I guess that's what it wants to do. So, if it gets any kind of results, it's probably going to be good enough for a lot of people. And it will probably be good enough for me and this tank. So, there you go. It's pretty anticlimactical as far as videos go. Because you're not going to see any instant results. And you wouldn't expect to see any. But, like I say, it was easy to install. It's going to be easy to use. It is relying on my memory. So, if that's a concern for you, as it is for me, then you might want to look into a proper CO2 tank with some kind of regulator and a solenoid. So, you can automate it with a timer. But, for what that is, it should be good. So, hope that was of some use to some of you. And if you want to see what happens in a month's time, or three months down the line, by all means, click that subscribe button. And then you won't miss any update by theals we do. 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