Fwd: Re: Biogas

["Ed Pon" <edpon@hotmail.com>]

Ed wrote:
><< ust speculation and curiosity--What if someone were to get a two 
liter 
>> bottle of diet coke and poke a pin-hole, or a nail-hole in the bottle 
>> and allowed it to slowly mix with the water in the aquarium.  Diet 
Coke 
>> is available at my Lucky's supermarket for as little as 69 cents for 
a 
>> two-liter bottle when using a Lucky Rewards card.  Will this slowly 
add 
>> carbon dioxide?  Will it harm the fish?  How about club soda?  >>
>>>

Bob wrote:
>Yeah, Ed, go for it.  Let me know how fast the fish keel over.
>But, on the other hand, if you had a crisis-level drop in CO2 (though I 
can't
>imagine what that would be) Calistoga or other sparkling water might be 
added
>to the tank to "spurt" the level of CO2 short-term.  It would probably 
add
>some other dissolved solids as well, though, but not sugar, aspertame, 
or
>artificial black-water
>
>Bob
>
Bob--All the things I mentioned are things that people put in their 
bodies everyday.  I'd think twice before drinking peat water, black 
water tonic, or aquarium water.

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