Hawkeye

Using CO2 is like plants on steroids!!

Hawk

anthonysquire

Can you get the same results using flourish? I think that's what I'm thinking of.

plantbrain

To be fair, you should add the same amount of ferts and see.

10X the biomass, now that's dry weight.

Freshweight of submersed plants, means that 90-95% of the FW is water.

So it might look more than it really is if you compared tomatoes etc
the actual carbon, Nitrogen etc is low.

Regards,
Tom Barr

pacolopezmujica

Hi,
Just want to know, what's the advantage or disadvantage on having the diffuser directly on the filter intake so that CO2 be distributed all over the system?
Thanks,
Pacolopez

nap83

co2 does make a lot of difference i agree (and by the way nice presentation!). i wanted to grow an amazon sword on my low light low tech set up. as we all know amazon swords will not grow in my tank since i carry only 1.5 wpg. i snuck in a co2 bubble wand in the back of the amazon sword and bam! it's the biggest thing in the tank! when tank aficionados ask me why my sword looks so lush and healthy on such a dimly lit tank, they're just amazed. co2's crazy!

thatguy

ive since broken these tanks down, but at the time i targeted 30-40 ppm of co2.

no fish, just shrimp in both tanks.