dmoney87
Aquarium Advice Freak
So almost had a disaster, came home yesterday from being out all day and seeing that there was no movement coming from my filter outlet into the aquarium.. opened up the cabinet door to find my inlet hose to the filter bent over.. so no water was getting into or out of the filter (which im sure was not good for it at all, because I read before never run a filter dry) but all the meanwhile my pH raised so my co2 was being still being injected .. I dont know what if anything could have or would have happaned but either way im glad I found it before it did, and I also obv solved the kinked hose situation.
So my water is starting to clear up and same with the brown sand. I did testing today (except pH .. gota love em pH controllerz!)
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 15
pH 6.8
kH 4*
Now that im injecting pressurized co2 I used that kH pH relation c02 calculator and got 19.019 ppm of co2.. I looked up a chart and it showed for my ph and kh that I was in a good range for the co2. Just curious as to if thats true or not.
This presurized co2 and ph controller was a good buy I must say. Especially the pH controller. Well worth the extra cash if your going to be going the Pr.Co2 route. Once my pH got to my set level it stays for quite awhile without injecting more co2 I hear the solenoid click on maybe once or twice a day.. and only take minutes to get it back down with a bubble rate of about 4 bps.
I did get a air pump and flex bubble wand ( all black with stealth black airline tubing) its probably purely for personal aesthetic reasons. Its burried behind my rock cave and set at very low air output for small natural looking bubbles, and gota say it looks real good. Also I got a small hydor 400 powerhead to give the right side of my tank a little more circulation, and I believe it helped in clearing up my sand and small blue green algae problem. All the while neither seem to really affect my pH/kH co2 levels at all.. if anything my filter outlet wand creates more turbulance on the water .. anyways im rambling on
-davE
So my water is starting to clear up and same with the brown sand. I did testing today (except pH .. gota love em pH controllerz!)
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 15
pH 6.8
kH 4*
Now that im injecting pressurized co2 I used that kH pH relation c02 calculator and got 19.019 ppm of co2.. I looked up a chart and it showed for my ph and kh that I was in a good range for the co2. Just curious as to if thats true or not.
This presurized co2 and ph controller was a good buy I must say. Especially the pH controller. Well worth the extra cash if your going to be going the Pr.Co2 route. Once my pH got to my set level it stays for quite awhile without injecting more co2 I hear the solenoid click on maybe once or twice a day.. and only take minutes to get it back down with a bubble rate of about 4 bps.
I did get a air pump and flex bubble wand ( all black with stealth black airline tubing) its probably purely for personal aesthetic reasons. Its burried behind my rock cave and set at very low air output for small natural looking bubbles, and gota say it looks real good. Also I got a small hydor 400 powerhead to give the right side of my tank a little more circulation, and I believe it helped in clearing up my sand and small blue green algae problem. All the while neither seem to really affect my pH/kH co2 levels at all.. if anything my filter outlet wand creates more turbulance on the water .. anyways im rambling on
-davE