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[flanders]

I do a little over 1bps for my 55, and the drop checker is always a light yellow/green during the day. I don't have a timer on my CO2, not sure why just haven't, but I do run an airstone in the evening. Comes on about 1hr after lights off, and turns off about 2hr before lights on.

Do you add O2 to the tank? I don't have any real data, but I think adding O2 helps my tank quite a bit.

[chase127]

i dont judge my CO2 by bpm or bps i just look at the drop checker, i tweaked the needle valve until it stayed light green the whole day.

[@marko@]

Originally Posted by flanders

I do a little over 1bps for my 55, and the drop checker is always a light yellow/green during the day. I don't have a timer on my CO2, not sure why just haven't, but I do run an airstone in the evening. Comes on about 1hr after lights off, and turns off about 2hr before lights on.

Do you add O2 to the tank? I don't have any real data, but I think adding O2 helps my tank quite a bit.

ok, well i did more then that for sure. my CO2 goes down nicely at night, so i need to get it up in the morning. which means i need a good bps/bpm or it will take too long.
add O2? you mean aeriate? i have some surface agitation going all the time. i think my surface skimmer helps too.

Originally Posted by chris127

i dont judge my CO2 by bpm or bps i just look at the drop checker, i tweaked the needle valve until it stayed light green the whole day.

i cant really do that. i have fish in there, and i need to get my CO2 stable at an acceptable level.






the plan:
tomorrow i will set the CO2 to 1.5-2 bps. then i will turn it on a half hour before lights on, and hopefully it will reach around 30 ppm by then. if it does reach that level, within an hour of lights coming on, i will let it go up a little bit higher, and then shut it off. when it goes down to 25 ppm or so, ill turn it back on; turn it off above 30, and so on. at the end of the photoperiod, i will have a log of what times to set.

[flanders]

Originally Posted by @marko@

ok, well i did more then that for sure. my CO2 goes down nicely at night, so i need to get it up in the morning. which means i need a good bps/bpm or it will take too long.
add O2? you mean aeriate? i have some surface agitation going all the time. i think my surface skimmer helps too.

Surface skimmer on a freshwater tank?

I'd avoid too much surface agitation during the day--hard to keep stable CO2 levels.

[@marko@]

yeah its the ehiem surface skimmer. its not a full backboard, but an attachment to the intake.
my surface isnt too aggitated, but i have som ripples constantly. my CO2 is relatively stable. im setting it today and so far its very constant (ph changes only 0.1, and my tank has a low kh) with 15 min on, 15 min off.

[@marko@]

hey guys, guess what.
my erio is flowering!





i wonder if its related to the autodosing thing?

[@marko@]

ok, well the tank really needed a trim today. the surface was totally covered in plants. but the tank is doing somewhat well. there is a bunch of hair algae on the r. wallichi and r. macrandra. however, the r. rotundifolia is fighting back against the Ca defficiency im getting out of, and grew a lot. the lilleaopsis is doing really well, and the eleocharis belem is sending runners. the stargrass, when it canopied, grew 3 flowers. the erio wasnt split well, one of the two got very little of the crown, and is dying, but my other one is growing more flowers, and is making a new crown (you can see one tiny new leaf). here are the pics:

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Oooh so much CO2

Remind me again, how do you diffuse your CO2? I'm too lazy to look lol

[EdTheEdge]

Everytime I look through this thread I am increasingly impressed with what I see!!!!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful world!

[imeridian]

Welcome to the flowering stargrass club.

[@marko@]

Originally Posted by ZooTycoonMaster

Oooh so much CO2

Remind me again, how do you diffuse your CO2? I'm too lazy to look lol

well i just did a WC, and my python puts out microbubbles, so i dont have THAT much CO2. but since i switch to the timer i do have more and the plants all seem to like it more.

i use an inline reactor.

Originally Posted by EdTheEdge

Everytime I look through this thread I am increasingly impressed with what I see!!!!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful world!

wow, thanks. that a really nice compliment.

Originally Posted by imeridian

Welcome to the flowering stargrass club.

lol, yeah.
i was really suprised actually. but i guess its not that suprising, since it grows like a weed, and its probably one of the more common flowers.
im still happy about it though.

[ZooTycoonMaster]

Originally Posted by @marko@

well i just did a WC, and my python puts out microbubbles, so i dont have THAT much CO2. but since i switch to the timer i do have more and the plants all seem to like it more.

i use an inline reactor.

Right, I knew that

Does Stargrass flower often?

[@marko@]

its the first time for me. but id assume so, since i didnt have it long (few monthes), and i trim it weekly since it grows so fast.

[@marko@]

well, i cleaned the tank up a bit and thought id post some pics:

[ZooTycoonMaster]

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