Pressurized CO2 vs GHA

i dont have a camera. unless my phone counts. i'll take a picture of the tank soon. when you see the pictures of algae, you'll notice they're 1/2 dead because i starved the tank of any ferts for a while, even my glosso is turning yellow.

there will be disparities like... why the glosso is also high in some spots and not the others. i had alot of ludwigia and another stem growing and it started blocking all the light. so the glosso started growing up. but most are still hugging the floor.

Man..anyways, i was looking at another thread today also, and someone recommended the aqua medic 1000 (the thread i think was the 180 gal tank build)...I want to blast my tank with co2, but the inline wouldn't fit so nicely with my fluval 305, they have funny ribbed tubes.
 
as for how much i'm adding, i can tell you its between 1-2 bubbles p/s, and i assume most of it dissolves in the water, i only lose a bubble or two every other other other second. but everyone seems to get that with their red sea reactor 500.
 
so, i'm not sure cutting the ferts will really help you as your starving the plants as well...what you really want is the plants to outcompete the algae for nutrients.

in priority order plants need 1. light (your ok, >2.5wpg i would consider high light) 2. carbon (for that light you want to be shooting north of 20ppm i reckon), 3. macro nutrients 4. micro nutrients.

you want all that in the right order, right balance and right dose...

for the lighting and dosing you have you want to be looking at a HEAVILY planted tank...your talking you can't see 75% of the substrate or less because of the plants. if thats not the case...go shopping!!!

what i would do is keep the light at the level you have, leave them switched on for 10-12 hours per day, no less and no more, i would cut all dosing to 25% for 4 weeks and observe results. if all is well crank up to 50% of full and so on and so forth until you see algae bloom again - at that point go back to the most recent successful dosing regime and stick to that

...on another (important imo) point, what filtration do you have? imo, planted tanks do best at more than 5 times turnover,i run mine at 8 times turnover per hour and point the filter outlets so the plants wave in the flow
 
umm... i never really thought about my filtration "turnover" i have 1 magnum 350, and a fluval 305.

hmm...if i have a "carpet" and it covers pretty much all my subtrate, does that count as heavily planted >:P
 
looney417 said:
umm... i never really thought about my filtration "turnover" i have 1 magnum 350, and a fluval 305.

hmm...if i have a "carpet" and it covers pretty much all my subtrate, does that count as heavily planted >:P
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not sure about turnover of a magnum, and i would certainly say your heavily planted!
 
[FONT=arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1]i just replaced my light reflectors for AHsupplies reflectors last night, i kind of didn't notice the difference, maybe it was before it was 4am and i'm tired.

i'm still using my 4 65watt square pins, i asked AHsupply if theres a difference between the 65 square pins, and the 55 straight pins, and they said they were pretty much the same....what do you guys think?

also i took a peak at the inline reactor that [/SIZE][/FONT]Fordtrannyman[FONT=arial,sans-serif][SIZE=-1] linked too, it looks cool, and is very cheap for what looks like a strong build (30 bucks for non members, thats hella cheap), but it doesn't have that "release" valve that would make it so much easier to empty out the trapped air that never diffuses, the aqua medic 1000 has it, and it would be so much easier for maintenance, becuase over time i can see the damage done by taking the tubes on and off to take out the trapped air, the tubes would get worn down and could cause a leak...then you'd have to cut the tube...

and it doesn't have those bio ball things, if that matters? but its still cool
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trapped air usually isn't that big of a deal also most people will area the bio-balls don't do anything and just slow down flow. also thay work really well i built mine my self so it was only like $20. it dobles as an inline heat too which is nice.
 
oOooOooooOo an inline heater that would be awesome, i wanted to do that (don't know of any easy easy easy way), when i had my sump, then i found out how determintal it was for a planted tank.............
 
lets see if i posted pictures right

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