Hey guys I have a low light aquarium its a 29gallon with 40 watts of light 1.3w per gallon or so,right now I have about 7 plants in it, up until now I have been using flourish twice a week (1/2 recomended ammount), and using floursih excel every 2nd day, I was just experimenting yesterday and I setup a DIY co2 system, and its working excellently it was extremly cheap to setup easy to run, and I could very well see myself using this instead of flourish excel from now on ( I didn't know it would be this easy) but my question is will it even help or make a diferance since I have such low lighting? 2X20watt strip lights, one is a proper grow light and the other is a "daylight" light both from an aquarium store, with a homemade tinfoil reflector
Will CO2 help low light?
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I only have a 15 watt over my 20 gallon. I dose with PlantGRO trace nutrients, a bit of iron, and 1tsp of potassium sulfate once a week and 1/8th tsp of nitrate daily.
I was advised on these forums that adding co2 wouldn't make much of a difference but i went ahead and setup a DIY with a hagen ladder and I have to say i see a big difference myself.
The hygro, anubias, val and even the java moss are growing much faster now. A week after i setup the co2 my plants really took off.
I still dose excel, too.
I was advised on these forums that adding co2 wouldn't make much of a difference but i went ahead and setup a DIY with a hagen ladder and I have to say i see a big difference myself.
The hygro, anubias, val and even the java moss are growing much faster now. A week after i setup the co2 my plants really took off.
I still dose excel, too.
oh ok, well i'll keep the excel going until i run out, but the DIY was so easy, and cheap I love it LOL, anyways I ran my airline through my powerhead air hole, and it spurts little fine bubbles all over the tank so I think its a pretty good system....we'll see how they do in the next few days, also I tryed putting my CO2 bottle in a bucket of hot water, and it really got the co2 going, this is obviously normal but is it bad to do this intiatally just to get it going really well?