75 gallon Planted Office Tank Journal

Re: agitating surface water at night... won't degassing cause a swing in your ph, which would stress your fish? I'm not 100% sure, but when I was researching co2, I read a bunch of stuff against aeration at night.

I'm just a diy co2 girl who uses a hob, so perhaps others with more experience can chime in.

Btw, nice fish! I like cherry barbs, but don't have room for them.
 
Added 2 Cherry barbs from my Kids home tank, as I previously mentioned. They seems to be doing okay so far. I also added a single Amazon Sword from my 29g, as I was about to have to toss it since it was getting to big, and I have plenty of runners with smaller swords growing.

I now have (I think) 15 cherry barbs in this school. More females than males. I have co2 and lights on, but my Indicator Solution is refusing to change color. I dont know what I am doing wrong....
 
Looks like after 4 hours, the color went from a blue to almost white, and now to green-ish. I would not say it's green, so I think there needs to be more co2, but at least it is changing color (I think). No joke, I have something called a "Deutan color vision deficiency", which means I have slight green color blindness, LOL.


BEFORE:

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AFTER:

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Here are the dry fertz, doesnt really make interesting photography, but if you have never seen what dry fertz look like, you might be curious. I know I didnt have any clue about dry fertz until these showed up....

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And here is a shot of a Sword I moved here, but it will be gone in a week.

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peace.
 
I mixed up some dry fertz today, that was fun and a little scarry. These photos make it look like I'm commiting a felony. I swear officer, I am only make plant food!

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See the white powder?

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After mixing per PPS-PRO method. I had to convert grams to ounces, since my digital scale only has ounces, DOH!

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FTS, but with a MACRO lens, so alot is out of focus. I wont have a good zoom lens for a long time, my kid broke it last week...

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Hey geek, is that powerhead of yours going to be too much for the plants? Your plants may not like the huge current.
 
mes1234 said:
Hey geek, is that powerhead of yours going to be too much for the plants? Your plants may not like the huge current.
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yeah, it is WAY bigger than I intended. Probably replace with a smaller one, or just take it out and not replace it.

I am getting conflicting advice about agitation / aeration at night. Also, some say to keep co2 on all day/night. If I dont need nighttime agitation, then I may not need it...
 
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