Zemo said:Your Ph and Kh to not match, that suggests something is buffering your Ph. This most likely makes it so you can not use the CO2 charts to figure your CO2. It sounds like you have a direct CO2 test. My Red Sea Master test kit has one. It always correlates well with the Ph/Kh/CO2 charts.
Wow, I missed that. I was too blindsided by the green water and the 'I'm giving up' I guess.
Question for you Zezmo, could aglae under high light consume large amounts of CO2? just wondering is the green water could be consuming the CO2 or in fact he has a buffer, besides the fact that his readings from prior posts confirming he has a buffer.
Rupret said:I have not made this step blindly in the least, but it sure seems that I have gotten extremely varied opinions and even contridictory advice on just about every aspect.
I am going to vent and you (Rupret) are allowed to vent as much as you want as long as you maintain it in a family orientated manner. ( Not that you didn't)
I Just had to get some things straight here. (assumptions are made here within)
I feel very bad for what has happed to you and to hear your frustration only makes it worse. and on top of that it seems you did NOT heed any of the advice given to you thus far.
the recommendation of reducing the light was mentioned in every post in reguards to your situation until you could better handle the amount you purchased. If you WOULD have read the stickied that Purrbox referenced, you would have noticed that one of the biggest mistakes for the NOOB planted tank is thinking that one can just plug in a huge light and add plants or even then add CO2 and have a nice tank. That is by no means the case.
"extremely varied opinions and even contridictory" this is why I am boiling over.
I understand you are venting and I wholeheartly do not want to put you down for doing so.
but the only varied opinion on this thread was about KH. IMO a KH of 1-2 is too low for ME, but for others that was fine. I cannot tell you how your KH will very, nor can anyone else for that matter, over time.
This thread has taken me alone hours of my time to reseach the info prior to posting just to make sure I wasn't giving you the wrong information. That my not seem like a lot, but if I was at work that is a lot of money and I do not get paid for this and neither does any one of these guys that are taking time out of thier day to help you out.
now this is me venting. (my veiws/vents are in no way shape or form represent AA or it's members)
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with this being said, I REALLY want to help you. I want you to have the piece of art work in your house that everyone just sits there and asks so many questions about.