CO2 Question..
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Topic: CO2 Question..
Posted By: Kilhd
Subject: CO2 Question..
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 1:46am
| Hello.. I have a couple of questions about a CO2 tank I bought. Please move this post if it's in the wrong spot or not wanted here but I need help. I am not a paintball player but I am trying to find a valve (on / off switch of some kind) to turn my CO2 tank on and off as needed. It's a PMI Pure Energy 20oz tank that I bought from the local Wal-Mart.. I am going to use this tank as a source for a gas chamber I am creating to humanely euthanize rodents for some fo my reptiles so I don't want the most expensive equipment out there just something for me to turn the gas on, and off. I don't have a local paintball store and Home Depot doesnt have what I need. I don't know much about this stuff but the tank has a "pin valve" on it.. Thanks for reading and ANY info given. please mail me if you have extra info for me. ( LyricalSatan@aol.com ) |
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Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 2:10am
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suphocating an animal is not humane. Either, find an alternative source of food for you reptiles or grow a pair son.... ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: Santa Chewp
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 2:12am
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You cant be serious, that is not cool man...
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Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 2:15am
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The easiest contraption to allow you to turn the tank on and off is a filling station. The inexpensive ones consist of a bradded hose, a 90 degree lever type ball valve, and a threaded cap into which one screws the cylinder. Usually these setups are intended to allow one to fill the small cylinder from a large one. But you will use the end that normally screws onto the large tank as your connector to your euthanasia chamber. The small tank will screw into the threaded cap at the other end of the bradded hose. Screwing it in depresses the pin valve opening the cylinder. The lever valve on the hose controls the on/off flow of gas. Your euthanasia chamber should be able to vent to the atmosphere so that it doesn't pressurize and explode. The "filling station" assemblys are available from many on-line paintball stores. I paid only $13 for mine. BTW, for those who think suffocation is inhumane, you watch too much TV. High CO2 levels give no sensation of unable-to-breath as would covering your mouth and nose with a plastic bag. The animal, or human for that matter, gets sleepy and quietly passes out. No sensation of panic ensues with animals or humans. It is quick and humane...lot more so than tossing the live mouse in the boa's cage. |
Kilhd wrote:Posted By: Kilhd
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 2:17am
| Thanks Bruce. |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 2:44am
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Ummmm, you've got to be joking ------------- 
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Posted By: brit1919
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 2:44pm
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whats everyones problem, he wants to kill the rodents before feeding them to a snake or something. alot of people do it. not like hes trying to kill animals to get off on it or experimenting. ------------- 2k5 prostock A5 Egrip Flatline JJ Ceramic 72/3000 hpa Remote |
Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 2:49am
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For people with no herpetology experience, it is common to kill the mice and rats before feeding them to the VERY expensive snake or lizard. A mouse or rat putting up a fight can injure the reptile. That may be OK in the wild but when you have anywhere from a couple of hundred to several thousand dollars invested in your herpetology collection, you don't risk it. |
Posted By: hybrid-sniper
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 10:06pm
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Interesting post. Bruce has ya covered, though. Post pics of your reptiles, man. |
Posted By: RedLion56
Date Posted: 15 December 2005 at 9:35am
Why not let them be eaten alive? ------------- A5 12"Bigshot Pure energy 20ozCo2x2/AntiSyphon 32 degrees Black X_chamber Pen spring mod Polished Internals |
Posted By: tsacain
Date Posted: 15 December 2005 at 10:15pm
| Bruce just said why. |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 18 December 2005 at 7:52pm
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SNAP |
Posted By: 1 shot 1 kill
Date Posted: 19 December 2005 at 8:00am
| so please tell me all of you that find feeding rodents to snakes are vegies because if not you are a hypocrite i have a snake and i feed rats to him if not he will die after all if he does not eat he will die !!!! i also eat meat but it has been made to look nicer if you went out for a meal and you order the chicken and they put a freshly killed on on ther table with all the feathers and guts you would not eat it and most likey get up and walk out |
Posted By: mat10590
Date Posted: 19 December 2005 at 5:02pm
i was a little disturbed til i found it was for a reptile any ways the easyist cheapest way i can think of is to just whack it with a shovel but u said humane so if i were you i would go to a paintball store and get a remote line adapter you no the thing with the knob on the top and maby a short braided steel hose and some pvc pipe unless u wanna watch em then get some thing clear or make a clear box window in the pvc block the ends and run in the tube use the knob to control flow and let the mousy holocaust begin------------- http://www.sloganizer.net/en/ - [IMG - http://www.sloganizer.net/en/style1,Mat10590.png - i do everthing full auto.....yes that includes stealthy |
Posted By: Phantasm
Date Posted: 23 December 2005 at 1:47am
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 23 December 2005 at 7:16am
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You do realize that by dumping CO2 into a gas chamber you suffocatiing them right? I wouldn't call that anymore humane than just ringing thier little necks..
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Posted By: Bruce A. Frank
Date Posted: 23 December 2005 at 9:01pm
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