dapellegrini
Aquarium Advice FINatic
What a learning curve moving from a standard low-light, lots of fish hobbiest to the world high-light planted aquariums!
I have been running a automated/pressurized CO2 system into tank for a bit less than a week now, and this morning I noticed that my fish where all gasping (I am guess for lack of oxygen)...
I have dropped in an airstone just under the spraybar to try and get some air relief to the fish and it seems to be working, though slowly...
My tank is still very young in this incarnation and the new plants that I have added may not be fully adapted and happily producing enough O2 to take my fish through the nighttime.
I figure I must be having this problem for 1 of 2 reasons. Either my tank is over stocked (quite possible) or my plants aren't happy enough yet, or both. So while I figure that out, is it best to turn the CO2 off at night, or turn an airstone on at night? Other options?
For those of you that have not been following all of my questions/posts, this is a 72g tank with a Rena XP3 canister. On the outflow side I have a Reactor 1000 and an inline heater. Also have the SMS122 pH meter regulating my CO2 tank, set to a pH of 7.0 in water that is 6dkH. Without injection the water's pH is around 7.9.
I have been running a automated/pressurized CO2 system into tank for a bit less than a week now, and this morning I noticed that my fish where all gasping (I am guess for lack of oxygen)...
I have dropped in an airstone just under the spraybar to try and get some air relief to the fish and it seems to be working, though slowly...
My tank is still very young in this incarnation and the new plants that I have added may not be fully adapted and happily producing enough O2 to take my fish through the nighttime.
I figure I must be having this problem for 1 of 2 reasons. Either my tank is over stocked (quite possible) or my plants aren't happy enough yet, or both. So while I figure that out, is it best to turn the CO2 off at night, or turn an airstone on at night? Other options?
For those of you that have not been following all of my questions/posts, this is a 72g tank with a Rena XP3 canister. On the outflow side I have a Reactor 1000 and an inline heater. Also have the SMS122 pH meter regulating my CO2 tank, set to a pH of 7.0 in water that is 6dkH. Without injection the water's pH is around 7.9.