Sunlight’s tank journal
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idk, maybe a foot? It's two 2 liter coke/sprite bottles sitting next to each other maybe an inch apart
OK, thanks. I may be able to fit it behind my tank. I'll see.
Can you link me your system please? thanks
Also, thank you so much for your help
T
the loach
!! I spent my morning doing a bunch of research and calculations and made about a gallon of solution that raises my nitrates to around 10ppm with just 5mL of it 
It should last me pretty much forever! I hope this fixes my cyano issue. The plants are already pearling like crazy, even the bolbitis. I'll just test my nitrates after every water change and then add enough solution to raise to 10ppm if needed.
If anyone wants to know my mixtures, I put one US cup of KNO3 powder into one US gallon of dechlorinated water (an old tea jug that I cleaned out) and shook it until all of the powder dissolved. Then I just added 5 mL into the water using a syringe. I tested my nitrates both before adding the KNO3 and 30 minutes after, and my nitrate levels went from basically 0ppm all the way to 10ppm
I'm going to start on the refilling my CO2 part of the video once the pressure gauge goes down. It might take a couple of days. This video will go up once I get all of that done!
Also I tested my pH after the CO2 has been on all morning (drop checker was green too) and found it to be 6.4 still
It should last me pretty much forever! I hope this fixes my cyano issue. The plants are already pearling like crazy, even the bolbitis. I'll just test my nitrates after every water change and then add enough solution to raise to 10ppm if needed.If anyone wants to know my mixtures, I put one US cup of KNO3 powder into one US gallon of dechlorinated water (an old tea jug that I cleaned out) and shook it until all of the powder dissolved. Then I just added 5 mL into the water using a syringe. I tested my nitrates both before adding the KNO3 and 30 minutes after, and my nitrate levels went from basically 0ppm all the way to 10ppm
I'm going to start on the refilling my CO2 part of the video once the pressure gauge goes down. It might take a couple of days. This video will go up once I get all of that done!
Also I tested my pH after the CO2 has been on all morning (drop checker was green too) and found it to be 6.4 still
You're welcome Sunlight, have you tested the KH? That's the next step, so you can fine tune your CO2 to get it to the butter zone:
You probably are adding too much CO2 at the moment. For sure you will get rid of the cyanobacteria, it's just about creating the right conditions so the plants outcompete them.
You probably are adding too much CO2 at the moment. For sure you will get rid of the cyanobacteria, it's just about creating the right conditions so the plants outcompete them.
The only way I can test KH at the moment is with my old test strips from a year and a half ago, but the values on that go up by 40 each time so I don’t know for sure. I went ahead anyways and tested it with the strip and it said 0 but probably because the next amount after 0 was 40 (Hope that makes sense). Do you recommend any relatively cheap KH tests I should look at in particular or do you think any one will do?You're welcome Sunlight, have you tested the KH? That's the next step, so you can fine tune your CO2 to get it to the butter zone:
You probably are adding too much CO2 at the moment. For sure you will get rid of the cyanobacteria, it's just about creating the right conditions so the plants outcompete them.
Strips are pretty useless for KH, get any liquid test just check that the accuracy is at least 1 degree.
Have you ever considered adding a school of micro rasboras or shrimp? I think both would look good in there.
