That works just fine. Lots of people leave there CO2 on 24 hours a day.
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Ive seen timers that will regulate the amount of bubbles per second. Im not sure if its out there...i would imagine it would be, but perhaps you could get a counter that cuts back the amount over night. Just in such a way that the ph doesnt as everyone has mentioned rise. That way you could leave it on all night, but have it decrease to just the point where you arent having such flucations. A drastic increase in a short period of time causes a great deal of stress....a stressed fishie in the morning would probably be about the same as i am without the first coffee...nasty 
That's exactly what i was told... i was surprised to see that people leave co2 running 24/7 without a ph controller. But then again, i'm no expert.
Aww fish don' t really care about pH... huge swings are very natural, especially for smaller bodies of water (not so much for rivers...)... they don't care about hardness either (altho it may effect development of some eggs)
After finding a few more hobbyists that I respect using this technique, I'm a "squirt-and-dump " guy now, infact one (very very experienced) breeder I spoke to at the AGA had some hard to spawn rasboras go at it after getting fish from a fellow hobbyist and a technique much like this. Absolutely no acclimation, right into the tank:
http://aquaria.info/faqs/ar0002.htm
Take home message is that fish don't care about pH or TDS differences, its written in every book becausae it was in the books before them. The only thing that'll give 'em a good lick is severe temperature shock which is really hard to do as water has a huge thermal interia.
Since I'm soapboxing a bit I'll continue if you'll let me, loads of what we do, and the reasons we do it are based on bad science and poorly thought out protocols and "conventional wisdom". So, if something is working for someone, that is a fact, if someone tells you what you're doing is wrong, that is theory, in the game of science facts drive theory, not the other way around So all this hypertechnical bickering you see on the mailing lists and books, ignore it, folks are just blowing smoke Experiment! Find a system that works for you..
Happy Thanksgiving!
Jeff
After finding a few more hobbyists that I respect using this technique, I'm a "squirt-and-dump " guy now, infact one (very very experienced) breeder I spoke to at the AGA had some hard to spawn rasboras go at it after getting fish from a fellow hobbyist and a technique much like this. Absolutely no acclimation, right into the tank:
http://aquaria.info/faqs/ar0002.htm
Take home message is that fish don't care about pH or TDS differences, its written in every book becausae it was in the books before them. The only thing that'll give 'em a good lick is severe temperature shock which is really hard to do as water has a huge thermal interia.
Since I'm soapboxing a bit I'll continue if you'll let me, loads of what we do, and the reasons we do it are based on bad science and poorly thought out protocols and "conventional wisdom". So, if something is working for someone, that is a fact, if someone tells you what you're doing is wrong, that is theory, in the game of science facts drive theory, not the other way around
So all this hypertechnical bickering you see on the mailing lists and books, ignore it, folks are just blowing smoke Experiment! Find a system that works for you..Happy Thanksgiving!
Jeff
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