Running DIY Co2 Through a c-160?

SMinNC said:
And DO NOT start up the CO2 until you Have Plants In the tank. As in a bunch of plants, as in "planted". Not 2 or 3 little low light plants, that won't use up the normal CO2 thats already in the water.

With that said. Yea, I guess you could kill stuff in a 20g with DIY co2. With no surface aggitation and expecting 1 or 2 plants to use all that co2.

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Do you have the tank yet?
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Yeah I have it...(it used to hold hermitcrabs:)) How can I create surface a little aggitation since I have a canister filter?

Yeah, I think I'm going to try just to stick it into the intake of the filter for a start. That shoulden't harm anything, or suck up the mix....Like you said I'm only starting out and am probably gonna change things around! ;)
 
surface agitation is just that... anything that causes a disruption on the surface. aiming your output to splash at the top or move the top water at all is causing surface agitation. i would not rely on that to keep things smooth though if you're adding co2.
 
dundadundun said:
try a 30 gallon with around 30 plants overall, no ferts except root tabs, light real low, low kh and an air wall. the ph swing was amazing. 7.6 to as low as unreadable on a wide range ph test kit. it was a long time ago but it was bad! almost forgot... i was using a hob whisper and it was barreling into the water also.
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Like I say here and there. I don't have much experience with plants and co2 yet. But that sounds like the most completely wrong set-up, to add co2 to?

My first real planted tank was a 30g L.
Had a 96w cf plus a 30w fl.
Some plants
DIY co2 and a red sea thing, that might have kinda sorta put something out? That was why I added the DIY bottle.
For a day or two after a new bottle and water change. My indicator would be bumped into the yellow by morning.
I'd be seeing bubbles comming from most of the plants after 3-4 hrs of the lights being on.
Didn't have hardly any water movement. Let alone any surface movement to even consider thinking aggitation. As in, most of the time there wasn't any surface movement.
Made a simple diy diffuser. A tube angled a few degrees down, attached to a small ph. Very rarely did any co2 come out of the tube. So basically 100% of co2 that went into the tank was in the water.


Here's a couple thounsand words saved. ;)
These are a couple of pics I have showing the right half.
1 month and a few days of growing...

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SMinNC said:
that sounds like the most completely wrong set-up, to add co2 to?
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yes it was... gotta learn somehow. my initiation into fish was not the greatest at all. things are much different now thank heavens.
 
Same here. And way back when I started with a 29g, there wasn't this crazy internet thing.
Took it home, set it up with an Aquaclear(pretty sure thats what it was).
Got about 10 fish a day or two later. Couple of corys, mollys and somethings?
We'd take it outside about once a month and clean it inside and out. As in, gravel and all. lol
Now I can say I've had corys turn into immitaion Albinos. They went from something like a plain 'ol cory sterbai to a bleached albino look, from ammonia.
They lived for around another 10 yrs. Hense me not getting toooo excited about ammonia lvls. Not to say I don't get excited, and do something about it. I just don't completely freak out on it.
And yea, they were still going good. Right up until the lil 12" shovelnose tiger cat ate them.
One of them cute lil fish, that you learn a lesson from. As in, "know something about the fish, before you buy it" lesson.
It wasn't like I didn't try to research it first. I still have the two big thinck aquarium atlas books I'd look through all the time. Looked at books in the store too. Just plain couldn't find anything that looked like it did(at 3/4 of an inch/baby colors)
It started changing into the adult stripes, when I finally saw it in a book at the store called Tank Busters. I think thats where I finally saw a juvi pic of it, right next to the adult pic.
So I started reading about it. Found out it would get 5' in the wild. And that a 2' specimen in a (don't remember the gallons, 300?) big tank, freaked out, and busted the end glass out of the tank.
I knew it was time for him to find a new home, And hopeing my 75g wasn't all over the carpet while I was reading that. lol
It was a day or two later that I done a head count. Wasn't too hard to do these days, if you get the idea. I found my 2 corys were gone. I wasn't happy, so he found a nice lil indoor pond in a lfs the next day.
He'd done ate about everything in there from Harleys to a 6" elephant nose. But when he ate my lil buddy corys, he had to go!

Sooooooo.....?

What were we talkin about.... paintball, making up his mind? : P
 
bubble count helps. that's why i suggested starting lower on your yeast. if it's not enough you can add a little more. the next time you mix it start with a little more if necessary.

it definitely works against you to add it and then gas it off. it's not a stable way to keep things in check either. now gassing off at night can be beneficial if you see stress in your fish or if your levels are a little high during the day, but that's a different story. to do that it's best to have an air stone on a timer with your lights or offset by an hour or so.
 
in an emergency... maybe. at night yes. otherwise no really.
 
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