With years of aquarium experience with African Cichlids and some community tanks I decided a few months back to try a more heavily planted tank with higher lighting and pressurized CO2.
After some struggle I have finally got a healthy and lush looking carpet of HC (Dwarf baby tears) growing with now almost 70% of my 10 gallon tanks floor covered. The problem is I really dont know at what levels to maintain my CO2 output at with 30 watts of 6700K lighting? The plants are doing well. But the 8 cardinal tetras were struggling today after a water change and 2 began darting all over and swimming in odd attitudes until one finally died. I immediately did a 50% water change and they all have seemed to stabilize since.
Upon changing the water I'm still getting some cloudy water for a couple hours indicating a mini cycle that I'm aware of and keeping a close eye on. I also added half a capfull of Flourish comprehensive plant supplement followed by the same dosage of Flourish Excel during the water change.
Again, the plants are thriving and pearling and I currently have my bubble count at around 2 per second, but the fish all almost died on me tonight about 2 hours after a water change. Could it be related to the plant supplements or C02 output being too high or somthing else?
Cichlids were just so much easier to take care of!!
After some struggle I have finally got a healthy and lush looking carpet of HC (Dwarf baby tears) growing with now almost 70% of my 10 gallon tanks floor covered. The problem is I really dont know at what levels to maintain my CO2 output at with 30 watts of 6700K lighting? The plants are doing well. But the 8 cardinal tetras were struggling today after a water change and 2 began darting all over and swimming in odd attitudes until one finally died. I immediately did a 50% water change and they all have seemed to stabilize since.
Upon changing the water I'm still getting some cloudy water for a couple hours indicating a mini cycle that I'm aware of and keeping a close eye on. I also added half a capfull of Flourish comprehensive plant supplement followed by the same dosage of Flourish Excel during the water change.
Again, the plants are thriving and pearling and I currently have my bubble count at around 2 per second, but the fish all almost died on me tonight about 2 hours after a water change. Could it be related to the plant supplements or C02 output being too high or somthing else?
Cichlids were just so much easier to take care of!!