Hello,
apparently I still have problems with my CO2 and I am currently disappointed and baffled with the whole situation.
I use an external reactor (12mm/16mm) connected to an external filter (16mm/22mm) via connectors. The filter throttle is somewhat less than 1000 L/h so the flow is high. Even though the number of bubbles per second is countless (some people say bps isn't an indication) my plants melt and its an indication of bad CO2 or low flow. People using such a reactor use a lower bps rate for bigger tanks than my 40L one and still they manage to keep plants more successfully than I do. So I am advised to increase the CO2 and I do but when I do half of the reactor fills up with CO2. I run though a 3kg bottle of CO2 in 21 days! I don't have any leaks since the CO2 gets build up in the reactor.
So apparently I am incapable of using an external reactor since I dumped 3kg of CO2 in 21 days and I am still low on CO2....oh what a joy!
If you were in my situation.....what would you do? Enlighten me! Because I cannot succeed even if my life depended on it!
Increase flow? Wouldn't that be great? If my 40L tank needs a Fluval of 1000L/h then I wonder what a 100L tank requires!
Pump more CO2? Unless I am connected with a gas company to provide abundant CO2, pumping more CO2 into the reactor will both push all the water out of the reactor and I will need a 3kg bottle every 2 weeks.
So YES! The plants need CO2....even though I dose 5ml of Excel daily and even though my LED TMC Grobeam 600 is at 30% intensity and 55cm above substrate, the plants need more CO2 like crazy....and I explained the situation above.
What do I do now? I am open to suggestions! Anything...its very difficult for me to grasp the concept of me adding so much CO2 and someone else adding 1-2 bps of CO2 and they are more successful than I am!
apparently I still have problems with my CO2 and I am currently disappointed and baffled with the whole situation.
I use an external reactor (12mm/16mm) connected to an external filter (16mm/22mm) via connectors. The filter throttle is somewhat less than 1000 L/h so the flow is high. Even though the number of bubbles per second is countless (some people say bps isn't an indication) my plants melt and its an indication of bad CO2 or low flow. People using such a reactor use a lower bps rate for bigger tanks than my 40L one and still they manage to keep plants more successfully than I do. So I am advised to increase the CO2 and I do but when I do half of the reactor fills up with CO2. I run though a 3kg bottle of CO2 in 21 days! I don't have any leaks since the CO2 gets build up in the reactor.
So apparently I am incapable of using an external reactor since I dumped 3kg of CO2 in 21 days and I am still low on CO2....oh what a joy!
If you were in my situation.....what would you do? Enlighten me! Because I cannot succeed even if my life depended on it!
Increase flow? Wouldn't that be great? If my 40L tank needs a Fluval of 1000L/h then I wonder what a 100L tank requires!
Pump more CO2? Unless I am connected with a gas company to provide abundant CO2, pumping more CO2 into the reactor will both push all the water out of the reactor and I will need a 3kg bottle every 2 weeks.
So YES! The plants need CO2....even though I dose 5ml of Excel daily and even though my LED TMC Grobeam 600 is at 30% intensity and 55cm above substrate, the plants need more CO2 like crazy....and I explained the situation above.
What do I do now? I am open to suggestions! Anything...its very difficult for me to grasp the concept of me adding so much CO2 and someone else adding 1-2 bps of CO2 and they are more successful than I am!