Apr 13, 2019
Updates on tanks -and bowl- they are all ok~~ thriving (sorta) i added some jungle vals to my big tank and i'm having troubles with my tiny tank... I think its nutrients deficiency, expecially potassium...
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Updates on tanks -and bowl- they are all ok~~ thriving (sorta) i added some jungle vals to my big tank and i'm having troubles with my tiny tank... I think its nutrients deficiency, expecially potassium...
140 L project tank improvement Step 5.2: introduce CO2 ladder (a.k.a. good riddance, pantyhose!)
I… This is difficult to explain. But I this other hobby where I needed rock glue. I would have liked the Impa stuff, but shipping costs were just ridiculous, so, I thought, ordering Reef Construct would actually be me saving money in postal fees.
While at it, I ordered a GH test and a CO2 ladder, Dennerle’s Flipper. Forgot to order a drop checker. Rats.
The flipper works nicely. The bubbles get visibly smaller etcetera etcetera. It’s fun to watch. When I was a child, I had a novelty key chain thing (a fob? I don’t know and can’t find the word) that had two liquids in it, a clear liquid and a heavier blue liquid. When turned upside down, the blue liquid formed small drops that travelled down, one by one, via a ladder. I can say I loved watching the thing.
The CO2 flipper has the same pleasantness in it. I think I’ve watched it more than I’ve watched the fish, the past few weeks I’ve had it xD
There are two issues I didn’t take account for, though. The first one is accumulation of debris. I placed the flipper next to the input of the filter because I didn’t want it getting outside light. Well, it collects debris. I didn’t expect I’d have to actively clean it every now and then.
The other issue is snails. Those nasty buggers are small enough to go in, where they’ll stop the bubbles from moving on occasion. As my CO2 system is sugar and yest (I now run 4 parellel bottles, the oldest is replaced weekly), this isn’t such a major problem, but if I had a pressurized system, it might be a different story.
The green water hasn’t come back after I started to add potassium. Don’t know if it was the potassium or the light or the combination, but things are looking relatively nice.
Last night my makeshift CO2 for my fish tank exploded. The tubing was obstructed and the gas accumulated until it went off. There was sugary yeast water everywhere. Everything is sticky. It happened at 3:00am, thought it was a fucking bomb at first. I stayed up all night cleaning up the mess. Always check your tubing. Please.
Yea boi
Quick update, after two months my bottle caps for my diy co2 arrived! I've been really depressed about this tank for a long time and I procrastinated stuff.. But I won't give up!
DIY CO2 SYSTEM
Okay, so I am thinking about setting up a co2 system to help my struggling plants ( I have tried everything, liquid co2, seachem iron, seachem flourish) and they still have an almost stunted growth plus algae. The algae has gotten a lot better after I went down to 9 hrs a day so that is not really a problem. I still have algae on the glass though and just added a new aquaclear 30 alongside my other aquaclear 30. My lights are only 4w each and I have 2 on a 20g long tank. It is VERY low lighting and I still have a lot of algae....? Anyways, I get the majority of it just not the diffuser part. Everyone of the reviews for every diffuser is horrible saying it breaks or it’s cheap, etc. What do you guys recommend as a diffuser? I have seen some stuff about an air stone....
Yaay, the nerite snails decided to come back down. And my bowfront is so tall that the CO2 is diffusing out just fine even without sticking it in the filter intake!
Noticed that the nerite snails were gasping for air at the top of the tank thanks to the CO2, so I went over to turn my airstone back on... that’s when I discovered that while I’d been fiddling with tubing I’d accidentally created a siphon in my airstone tube. The whole tube was full of water and my air pump was the only thing stopping the entire tank from emptying out onto the floor.
Needless to say, the air pump now has a check valve installed. I’m amazed that it still works with all the water sloshing around inside it.