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Adding co2 and more plants to planted fish tank
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." |
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Adding co2 and more plants to planted fish tank
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/ |
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Adding co2 and more plants to planted fish tank
"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." |
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