Plant Gro Co2 Natural System?

[Kasakato]

C02 is great if you have high light. On my 20g, super hight light with C02, the plants are gowing crazy.

PetsMart is wrong, again :thud:

 

[Fish_3456]

but they told me that in a 10g the co2 would be useless

 

[Kasakato]

How much light do you have?

 

[Fish_3456]

i use 2 mini compact aquatic bulbs

 

[Kasakato]

What plants? Whats the wattage of the bulbs?

 

[Fish_3456]

The watts are equal to 50 watts each. The plant I really don’t know but I bought it at petsmart and it has long stems and wide leaves at the ends.

 

[Kasakato]

Lots of plants look like that
50w in a 10g tank is something like 2.5-3WPG. So yes, C02 should help.

 

[Fish_3456]

ok thanks

 

[RTR]

You cannot calculate light intensity of the incandescent "equivalent". All tank lighting crude guesstimates are based on fluorescent normal output tubes. You must use the rated wattage of the tube. Then if you want to hedge a bit, you subtract a bit due to light wasted from restrike in the coiled tube. But they are still effecive lighting for small tanks.

 

[Fish_3456]

So should i go with the Co2? If i dont need it i wont use it because i dont think i have room in my tank for a reactor. Does it just make the plants grow or does it do more then that?