CleverBs
Aquarium Advice Addict
I have a 220g tank and a 30g cube that are connected together as one system. It used to be my reef tank and frag tank. So both the tanks sit next to each other and share a sump.
My goal is to weigh the cost of keeping them together vs seperating them. if its 2$ a month who cares but if its 20$ a month in ferts and co2 then thats to much.
220g will have a few plants in it but not a ton things like amazon swords and such.
here are my questions:
1.) Does the water volume make much difference in how much co2 is used monthly or does it depend more on the amount of plants?
2.) The benefit of having them tied together is that they look so much better with being able to hide the heater and all the other things as well as not having to do water changes on two tanks I just need to do it on one.
3.) I know ferts are based of gallons but I figured I would just have one large does in the begining and then the rest would just be the same because ferts only need to be replaced when used so how oftern you have to fert depends on plants and plant volume correct?
4.) I have heard of inline diffusers for pvc as well as making a DIY rector out of media reactors. I have a dual media reactor that i used on my reef tank to run carbon and GFO so I figured I could use that to make a diy reactor but I have no idea how and cant find anything online.
Here are my options
a.) Leave them as a whole system and co2 does the enitre thing.
b.) take it off the system and use a canister filter that I have and use an inline diffuser.
c.) just put a 5g sump on the 30g and put the heater and what not in there however I still run into the issue of how to use an inline diffuser on pvc.
My goal is to weigh the cost of keeping them together vs seperating them. if its 2$ a month who cares but if its 20$ a month in ferts and co2 then thats to much.
220g will have a few plants in it but not a ton things like amazon swords and such.
here are my questions:
1.) Does the water volume make much difference in how much co2 is used monthly or does it depend more on the amount of plants?
2.) The benefit of having them tied together is that they look so much better with being able to hide the heater and all the other things as well as not having to do water changes on two tanks I just need to do it on one.
3.) I know ferts are based of gallons but I figured I would just have one large does in the begining and then the rest would just be the same because ferts only need to be replaced when used so how oftern you have to fert depends on plants and plant volume correct?
4.) I have heard of inline diffusers for pvc as well as making a DIY rector out of media reactors. I have a dual media reactor that i used on my reef tank to run carbon and GFO so I figured I could use that to make a diy reactor but I have no idea how and cant find anything online.
Here are my options
a.) Leave them as a whole system and co2 does the enitre thing.
b.) take it off the system and use a canister filter that I have and use an inline diffuser.
c.) just put a 5g sump on the 30g and put the heater and what not in there however I still run into the issue of how to use an inline diffuser on pvc.