10 gallon planted EI dosing with no CO2 question...
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CO2 will help plants to grow in lower light than is possible without adding CO2.
You will also gain 10X more plant growth and vigor usign CO2 than you will with good light and ferts alone.
CO2 is the THE limiting nutrient for most aquariums/aquarist.
I also can grow plants without much light, same for not much ferts if any, just fish waste etc.
But........
most understand the need to add ferts based on terrestrial land plants, they generally avoid and lack the understanding about CO2 in aquatic plants however.
I was no different. But CO2 addition is huge and the biggest mental barrier for many new folks.
As I said, I had the same issue myself about 20 years ago.
I know right? I feel privileged that he posted on my thread. It is kind of awesome seeing how alot I have learned has come from him.
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For clarification...
It's labeled for plant/aquarium use because it specifically produces the light spectra plants use to photosynthesize. It seems there is some confusion between light spectrum (wave length) and color temperature (light color or K rating). Color temperature specifically refers to what the light looks like to the human eye, its relationship to light spectrum is tenuous at best. The assumption is that a bulb that resembles daylight (around 6500K) will produce enough light in the photosynthetic range of light to grow plants (red and blue spectra) and enough light in the parts of the light spectrum that the human eye is sensitive to (green), that it looks attractive. This assumption works for the most part. The plants themselves don't care what color temperature the light is. And one should keep in mind that the light's brightness to us bears no relationship to how "bright" it is to the plants.
Thanks for making that clear. I hadn't really thought about it, but now I know.
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All plants need CO2. It is a very necessary thing. It's the whole photosynthesis thing. The more CO2 for them, the better. I think plantbrain covered it pretty well.......
Yes he is. But you don't need to be a genius to know this. He posts stuff about plants all over the web. You can read what he writes and reports about and learn all kinds of cool things.
That is how I have been learning it. I made this thread to make sure I had it right.
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This Friday I have plans to get a 10lb CO2 tank. I have a Milwaukee ma967( I think) with a solenoid and bubble counter already, and a drop checker coming in the mail.
I understand that I need to test my ph and kh levels to get an idea on how many bps to use. I have a API master test kit I can test ph with, but I don't recall having a kh test in that kit...is this something readily available at petsmart or Perco?
And also I used a calculator to figure out my fert levels needed. But how do I test or know I have hit the reccomended numbers. I am using E.I. method.
(i just tried to up load the calculator numbers but the screenshots I took have the wrong file ext. And won't post.)
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I understand that I need to test my ph and kh levels to get an idea on how many bps to use. I have a API master test kit I can test ph with, but I don't recall having a kh test in that kit...is this something readily available at petsmart or Perco?
And also I used a calculator to figure out my fert levels needed. But how do I test or know I have hit the reccomended numbers. I am using E.I. method.
(i just tried to up load the calculator numbers but the screenshots I took have the wrong file ext. And won't post.)
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