Just wondering peoples views on too much CO2 causing issues, is there such a thing? Other than being bad for your livestock off course.
Cheers
Paulo
Cheers
Paulo
I don't know, my guess would be that you can't practically dissolved enough CO2 into the water to get anywhere near the levels that would cause problems. <"Lake Kivu is supersaturated with CO2 of volcanic origin">, and appears to have aquatic plants growing in it. I couldn't find any pictures for lakes Nyos and Monoun.I think we have to wait for Darrel @dw1305 for this answer...
Not if it’s all dissolved, but either way, I wouldn’t mix it with your Barcardi!Would too much Co2 make my tank look like a glass of 7up?
Hi all,
I don't know, my guess would be that you can't practically dissolved enough CO2 into the water to get anywhere near the levels that would cause problems. <"Lake Kivu is supersaturated with CO2 of volcanic origin">, and appears to have aquatic plants growing in it. I couldn't find any pictures for lakes Nyos and Monoun.
cheers Darrel
We have <"a thread">.A bottle of soda has about Ph 3.8 and Coca Cola pH 2.8. I guess the Coca Cola is a mix of both, ingredients and CO² under pressure.
*I don't know how much dissolved CO2 there is in a can of coke, but <"my guess is quite a lot"> scrub that, it is an incredible amount . I've just found that coke link, which says "0.14mol CO2 in 1000mL".
The RAM of carbon (C) is 12 and of oxygen (O) = 16, and we have two of them so that is 32 and the RMM of CO2 is 12+32 = 44, 44 x 0.14 is 6.16g and mg/L is equivalent to ppm. So you have about 6160 ppm of CO2 in the can, although 0.15% (about 0.01g) of this will be dissolved carbonic acid (H2CO2) and some of the gaseous CO2 will be in the headspace of the can above the liquid.
That would always be the case for me also. I know "prevention is better than the cure" is a bit of an over used cliche but once algae is getting to nuisance levels improving living conditions in the tank for your flora also improves the growing conditions for the now present algae. why wouldn't it? It's only when the existing algae has gone and the plants are now in a better position to keep it at bay you will see a difference which takes a bit of time and some work on your behalf.Certainly in my old tank when I some some minor BBA and Staghorn issues, the general advice you read always seems to be increase CO2 or CO2 distribution, but I always seemed to get it worse on the plants directly in front of the filter outlet richest in CO2.