I am wanting to hook up my diy CO2 injector to my planted tanks but the dKH is between 1 and 2 and the pH is 6.0 or lower. How do I hook up the injector without causing a pH crash? I use RO water and 1/4 tsp. of Seachem's Acid Buffer per 5 gal. newly added RO water. I have read about using baking soda, sodium bicarbonate, in the yeast reactor, but I am not sure how to do this or what to watch out for. Is anyone familar with doing this? Does anyone know how to stabilize the pH at these low levels?
Also, the reason I disconnected my yeast reactor was because it put off way too much CO2 in the first week and then fizzled out after that when most of what I read about them said the yeast mixture should produce well for about a month. Does anyone know of any tricks to make the yeast do this? Does anyone have any ideas of how to hook up a regulator to the yeast reactor? I was thinking of adding a crushed 2L soda bottle and an airline regulator before the bubble counter, that way, the crushed bottle can fill up without exploding and I can control the CO2 entering the tank. Does anyone forsee a flaw with this plan?
Also, the reason I disconnected my yeast reactor was because it put off way too much CO2 in the first week and then fizzled out after that when most of what I read about them said the yeast mixture should produce well for about a month. Does anyone know of any tricks to make the yeast do this? Does anyone have any ideas of how to hook up a regulator to the yeast reactor? I was thinking of adding a crushed 2L soda bottle and an airline regulator before the bubble counter, that way, the crushed bottle can fill up without exploding and I can control the CO2 entering the tank. Does anyone forsee a flaw with this plan?