co2 pressure?

I would never knock gum. It looks like bob villa put it on himself. very smooth. And if you knew me personally, Im always saying if it works it works. I mean not everything that I have is cobbled together and held with string, but on certain things. I was actually gonna use it when I seen ur post before but my fiance wasnt home and I dont chew gum. So I went to work and got paid to tinker for a few minutes.
 
lol well the gum is gone and now resealed it with silicone, will have to see how that works after a few weeks.
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looks fine. do you give your a lil shake each morn?
 
I have no sealant at all on my bottles. Never leak.

Drill a very small hole in the cap. Put some elbow grease into it and pull the tubing through the hole. Perfect seal. If your pressure builds up enough to make that seal leak, something else is wrong and it's a good thing that seal blew.
 
true, true jeffrey. Better to have a week link huh. Im still running my setups tho with no problems thus far. I just wanna be sure its at effective as possible. So I have my mix right, Sealed up top. I think I have to work on my entry method.

My wooden airstone on one of my 2 tanks gets nasty really quick. A ghost algae film. And my barbs I had in there gasp alot for air one time when I came home after work and during the day it took over. I could see it waving in the current on the glass. and it forms like a hair carpet on the gravel. I had to disasmble the tank 2 times now. Filter and all. It starts on the airstone, its gross.

So I liked what bk828 said about soaking in hot water. it worked for a day then it was back this morn. I put the regular type airstone on this morn and gravel vac'd the new stuff on the gravel.

My 5g doesnt do this at all.
Im curious what this is and how it comes about?
What the best diffusion method is- in the HOB intake, Under it, In the corner by itself bubblin? Of those three.

Im contemplating a small DIY diffuser. Just for a 10g its a space hog.

Thanks.
 
That film isnt really algae its fungus. And next time you see it in the tank you can simply just swipe your fingers along the wooden airstone and take off that slimy stuff and let the filter suck it up. Its harmless so even if you leave it as long as the bubbles can get from the stone to the top of the tank then your good. Ignore the fungus..
As far as fish gasping for air, how long are you keeping the lights for? Whats your current ph in the water? how many plants you have in that tank? are you running an airstone over night? If they are gasping you might want to run the airpump for atleast 2 hrs a day preferably overnight when lights are off.
The small diffuser is just like the wooden airstone and is a waste of $$, unless you are talking about those reactors..
For my 10g it doesnt really matter where i place the stone in the tank, under the filters overflow, by the intake tube, somewhere on the side.. the bubbles still get diffused over time and my plants are happy.
 
bk828 is this tested with numbers or visual plant growth? I'd like to see results from a drop checer from diff locations of either a wood or plastic airstone.

And on the fungus. it must be something diff. its nasty as all get out. It was a blanket on everything. I had to wash my plants under tap water and clean my HOB it was in the tube on the insides all over. flowing like hair in the wind on my glass. I dsont know if its from the wood or the co2? if it comes back with the plastic airstone im gonna flip. my other 5g has had the same setup and nooo probs. more plants in the 5g maybe i dunno.

lights are on 12-13 hrs a day 7:30-7:30ish some times 8-8:30?
ph should be mid 6's last time i checked
I dont run a airstone at night or at all. I have a spare setup ready to go. just have to plug the line on my gang valve and im set.- for emergencies I thought. lol.
plants are golf ball of java moss, 2 stems of moneywort (1 foot) and 4-5 1 foot stems of rotela indica? and same of some red ludwigia, 2 large water wisteria plants and about 2 feet of anacharis total and a hornwort section or two.

when the fish were gasping it was when i noticed it was cloudyish the night b4 then in the morn I seen a bit more. then when I got home the tank was at the worst I seen it. the long hairs on the glass and all flowing wild. the 2 tigers and 1 danio were gasping mid level. not at the top just gasping. I hit the airstone and did the teardown. I figured it was from having c02 in the tank for 2 weeks steady then a week w/o-leaks. then I added it and boom that. its never been as bad since the co2 is going or maybe its not going? since its getting dissoveld in the HOB and escaping b4 the tank? If i move the airstone tonight and its back then I dunno.
 
any idea, jeffrey or bk828? since you guys have been such a help and maybe suscribed to this?

I think Im going to have to start a new thread for this and see what options are out there? The fungus is back and everywhere only on my 10g. The 5g is perfect, I have the wooden airstone below the output in the 5g.

On my 10g last nite I had fungus on my plastic airstone ugh! I hooked up a small powerhead/filter to the side of the 10g and put the airline straight to the side. It works really well! Blows the tiny bubbles all the way around the tank back to the powerhead. Its growing everywhere. Can I buy something to kill it? Why is it in my 10g and not my 5g?
 
I really don't have any advice. Using the ladder, I experienced the fungus, but it wasn't ever a problem, just took the ladder out once or month or so and cleaned it off. I'm using an airstone inside my cannister intake now...I'll see how it does.

The only thing I can think to do is just clean it off. It seems time intensive, but as I'm sure you're discovering, a planted aquarium is anything but just a water change every once and a while.
 
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