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Originally Posted by hoppycalif Great post Edward! Your explanation fits all of the facts I know of. You say you don't think the pH/KH tables give good numbers for CO2 - I agree with that. How do you measure or estimate how much CO2 you have in the water? |
Thank you hoppycalif
Not knowing the CO2 level worried me for some time. When everything was growing well I couldn’t test it due to the KH being at zero. One dose of baking soda exposed the probable CO2 level of 10-15 ppm. This was enough under high light 6 Watts per gallon PC.
Here are the CO2 rates:
10 gall => 10 bubbles / min
50 gall => 50 bubbles / min
100 gall => 100 bubbles / min
I would like to add that tiny aeration is beneficial when fish is in the aquarium.
Thank you
Edward