Going to add the plants, a piece of driftwood, and co2 from my plants only
tank to my 46g Bow Front with 96 watts of lighting. This should make a
somewhat heavily planted tank. The 46g has 9 zebra Danios, 2 CAE's and a 4"
long Leopard Plec. Would like to know what to watch out for in adding the
Co2. As I seem to have had difficulty in the past in determining the Co2
content I am wanting to start slowly on the Co2 and increasing it slowly and
checking the pH(normally at 7.6) till I get some pearling. Don't want to get
a drastic change in anything that might harm the fish. Thanks for any
advise.
--
Paul

"You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it Damned foolproof."

Xref: 127.0.0.1 rec.aquaria.freshwater.plants:64816

Rather than continuing to add CO2 until you get perling, suggest you use the
calculator on the attached.

http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_co2chart.htm

Lots of reasons why even with appropriate co2 you might not get perling.


--
Bob Alston
918.494.4913

"Paul" wrote in message
...
Going to add the plants, a piece of driftwood, and co2 from my plants only
tank to my 46g Bow Front with 96 watts of lighting. This should make a
somewhat heavily planted tank. The 46g has 9 zebra Danios, 2 CAE's and a
4"
long Leopard Plec. Would like to know what to watch out for in adding the
Co2. As I seem to have had difficulty in the past in determining the Co2
content I am wanting to start slowly on the Co2 and increasing it slowly
and
checking the pH(normally at 7.6) till I get some pearling. Don't want to
get
a drastic change in anything that might harm the fish. Thanks for any
advise.
--
Paul

"You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it Damned foolproof."

Rather than continuing to add CO2 until you get perling, suggest you use the
calculator on the attached.

http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_co2chart.htm

Lots of reasons why even with appropriate co2 you might not get perling.

Agreed. In fact, I've never gotten pearling with only 2 watts per gallon, no
matter how much CO2 I added.


Leigh

http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/

"Bob Alston" wrote in message
.. .
Rather than continuing to add CO2 until you get perling, suggest you use
the
calculator on the attached.

http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_co2chart.htm

Lots of reasons why even with appropriate co2 you might not get perling.


Good advice. I refer to CGadd's site frequently. I just always seem to have
trouble nailing down co2 readings and am really wary with the fish involved.
In my plants only tank I didn't worry too much about it, just set bubble
rate for good growth rate. Thanks.
--
Paul

"You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it Damned foolproof."