Planted tank with Sump Issues. - Equipment

geeks_15 · 11-07-2009, 07:25 AM

It's hard to know what the cause is without more info. Try to minimize water surface disturbance. Where you inject CO2 in the system may make a difference (in flow, out flow, in the sump, in the tank). I am running a 75 with a sump. I inject CO2 with an inline diffuser that is in the plumbing which goes from the sump to the tank. I use a pH moniter to regulate the CO2 and I've had no problems keeping the CO2 levels I want and the pH pretty low (7.0 at night when the CO2 is off, down to 6.2 - 6.3 during the lighting period). You can check out my journal (linked below) to see my setup.

goalieman59 · 11-09-2009, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by geeks_15

It's hard to know what the cause is without more info. Try to minimize water surface disturbance. Where you inject CO2 in the system may make a difference (in flow, out flow, in the sump, in the tank). I am running a 75 with a sump. I inject CO2 with an inline diffuser that is in the plumbing which goes from the sump to the tank. I use a pH moniter to regulate the CO2 and I've had no problems keeping the CO2 levels I want and the pH pretty low (7.0 at night when the CO2 is off, down to 6.2 - 6.3 during the lighting period). You can check out my journal (linked below) to see my setup.

I am injecting the co2 right below the return line so the co2 bubbles are being moved all of the tank when the start moving toward the top of the tank. I will be rasing the stand pipe this week and then we will see what is going on with the co2. Is there any way to stop the loss through the trickle area?