Tank Update - Page 2 - Delaware Valley Aquatic Gardener's Association

Emc2 · 05-31-2006, 04:56 PM

Thanks Brad. Good to see you again.

Emc2 · 07-01-2006, 06:29 PM

The growth in this tank has been amazing. I had a bad outbreak of bba for while. I increased the co2, potassium, nitrate and traces and decreased the lighting. It's starting to reach that sweet spot. Now I'm ready to start messing with it again so I can watch it all go to hell.

I'm not happy with the circulation pump. I'm going to remove it and replace it with an eheim pro III and a co2 reactor. I've been using the circulation pump (an Iwasaki 30) as my reactor. It does a great job. Problem is that every 5 seconds I get this white mist of co2 all over the tank. Looks like crap. The other problem is that the current filter is on a GFI that keeps tripping. It's happened three times that the filter has gone off for an unknown amount of time. I'm also going to add a uv filter to the output of one of the current eheim.

Jason Baliban · 07-02-2006, 09:45 AM

Wow!!

That thing is really growing like crazy!! I'm coming over to see it in person!!

You might even have to do some trimming on your moss

jB

Emc2 · 07-02-2006, 01:46 PM

Thaks Jason. I made a run out to TFP today. I picked up another 2 liter bottle of excel. It's yours if you want it. Otherwise I'm sure it will get used.

DelawareJim · 10-04-2006, 06:38 AM

How's the tank looking lately?

2 litre Excel? You dosing excel plus CO2 injection?

Cheers.
Jim

Emc2 · 10-07-2006, 05:01 AM

I was Jim. I turned the CO2 off a few months ago. I'll try to post some update pictures this weekend.

Dusty · 10-16-2006, 10:11 PM

Holy cow your tank really has come along! Can't wait for the pics!

Laith · 10-16-2006, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emc2

I was Jim. I turned the CO2 off a few months ago. I'll try to post some update pictures this weekend.

Nice tank.

I'm curious as to why you turned the CO2 off...

Emc2 · 10-17-2006, 03:20 PM

Thanks.

It was mostly design error that caused me to turn the co2 off. I ran the co2 into an iwaki 30 pump. The pump chopped the co2 up into a fine mist of tiny bubbles and spit it into the tank. The problem was that the bubbles looked awful and that the flow on the pump was too strong. Some of the swords in the back couldn't thrive because they were getting sucked in to the intake of the pump. I could turn the co2 off with a timer but I couldn't turn the pump off for any extended period of time without a build up of stagnant water in the pipes. So, I ended up turning the whole thing off. The plan was to replace the pump with a second filter and a reactor. The growth and the overall balance in the tank has been good since I shut the pump and the co2 off so I've just left it that way while the filter and the reactor sit in my closet.

Too much information huh?

Emc2 · 10-17-2006, 03:22 PM

This photo is a couple weeks old. I've done a major trim since.