Hello all,
I have recently invested in a co2 system and have been tweaking it to get the levels right in my system. The issue I have is that I can only achieve a 0.6 PH drop and even this is causing my drop checker to go yellow towards the end of the day. My PH starts at 7.2 at 9:30am when my CO2 is turned on. The lights begin to come on at 10:30am and finish their ramping at 12pm, by which time the PH is 6.6. A few hours later my drop checker will be yellow and the PH has dropped to 6.4, which still isn’t a full 1.0 drop. I’m very reluctant to be adding in even more co2 as towards the end of the day I can see the fish becoming lethargic and breathing a bit harder, not gasping at the surface though.
My tank is 200L, set at 26c, GH is 10, KH is 8. The lighting is a Fluval plant 3.0 at 100% running from 10:30 to 6pm with a 1.5 hour ramp up and down. I am dosing Tropica Specialised Nutrition daily and Seachem Flourish once a week. Many of the plants are new and probably haven’t rooted yet but I wanted to give them the best start possible.
Plants are:
Eleocharis Acicularis
Ludwigia Repens Rubin
Aponogeton Longiplumulosus
Vallisneria Spiralis
Nymphoides Hydrophylla
Staurogyne Repens
Microsorum Windelov
Pogostemon Helferi
Anubias Nana
Lagenandra Meeboldii ‘Red’
Hygrophilia Corymbosa
Cryptocoryne Undulata
Cryptocoryne Wendtii
I have recently invested in a co2 system and have been tweaking it to get the levels right in my system. The issue I have is that I can only achieve a 0.6 PH drop and even this is causing my drop checker to go yellow towards the end of the day. My PH starts at 7.2 at 9:30am when my CO2 is turned on. The lights begin to come on at 10:30am and finish their ramping at 12pm, by which time the PH is 6.6. A few hours later my drop checker will be yellow and the PH has dropped to 6.4, which still isn’t a full 1.0 drop. I’m very reluctant to be adding in even more co2 as towards the end of the day I can see the fish becoming lethargic and breathing a bit harder, not gasping at the surface though.
My tank is 200L, set at 26c, GH is 10, KH is 8. The lighting is a Fluval plant 3.0 at 100% running from 10:30 to 6pm with a 1.5 hour ramp up and down. I am dosing Tropica Specialised Nutrition daily and Seachem Flourish once a week. Many of the plants are new and probably haven’t rooted yet but I wanted to give them the best start possible.
Plants are:
Eleocharis Acicularis
Ludwigia Repens Rubin
Aponogeton Longiplumulosus
Vallisneria Spiralis
Nymphoides Hydrophylla
Staurogyne Repens
Microsorum Windelov
Pogostemon Helferi
Anubias Nana
Lagenandra Meeboldii ‘Red’
Hygrophilia Corymbosa
Cryptocoryne Undulata
Cryptocoryne Wendtii