Oh good topic!
So I have a question in the same area.
I've just moved my puffer from a 20 long to a 40 gallon and put in about 12 pounds of moon and lace rock.
Will this rock turn to live sw rock at the point past 1.012 then???
I have a Male Crowntail in this very tank. Wendtii, Red Ludwigia, Frogbite and Anubias are all doing well.
Dwarf Sag and Alternanthera reineckii doing ok.
My local Petsmart is pretty good too. The employees in the fish department are well trained even if they don't know much.
The manager of the fish department however knows alot and is very caring. He has many many tanks of his own.
I've gotten some great discounts from him before too. Got a...
Yeap start out with one after it is going for 24 hours check your ph and see how much it has dropped.
It is good to go one step at a time so you see the relationship with your work and water parameters.
Your going to need another diffuser (hagen ladder or other method) for every additional...
Yeah don't worry about all the stuff you have purchase kooter, they are good products and you will use them up. Look up diy co2 suger and yeast and get to work (cheapist way and it works).
Excel is good stuff but do not over use it thinking you are going to be raising your c02 level, it is...
kooter I think if you raise your kh in that way your ph will raise with it. You could try but that will not be adding C02 to your water and neither will adding excel.
If you don't want to or cannot add pressurized c02. Do another hagen setup or two and you will see better numbers.
I have...
I'd go at it another way, raise your C02 level with more C02.
If you need to raise your kh use crushed coral.
Is this your 125 gallon we are talking about?