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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:40 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| govindsj wrote (View Post):
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Sandeep Raghuvanshi,
Great point. I think all three parameters are required for a stable setup.
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That was my analysis for this particular tank, there may be many more reasons which eluded me, but the solution seems to have worked.  |
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sandeepraghuvanshi
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:56 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| josyjames wrote (View Post):
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Sandeep, its an interesting point you have mentioned. I found that some websites mentioning that the permissible level for Mg for a planted tank is 2-5ppm. Also it has been mentioned that the plant growth is good if the proper Ca:Mg ratio is maintained. Do you have any information that you have gathered on what should be the permissible level of Ca and Mg in a water for the proper plant growth?
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Most of the literature that I have seen is geared towards minimum levels of Gh & KH.
Gh refers to General Hardness and is a measure of Ca++ & Mg ++, there are other ions also but they are fewer in numbers and difficult to measure.
Gh is measured in both ppm & german dh , to convert ppm to dh divide by 17.89.
In aquariums water between 4-8 dh is said to be soft, 8-12dh medium hard, 12-18dh failry hard, 18-30dh hard, > 30 liquid rock.
For planted tanks it is often said to have a Gh of at least 5. |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:59 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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Nice and green setup......  |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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Good study and efforts Sandeep  |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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Great efforts!
It was interesting to see you using Ferrous Gluconate for Fe supplementation.
Could you please provide some guidance on where you got it?
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| Good work, fortune favours the bold! but you havent mentioned anything about cooling the tank, or maybe you dont need it possibly. Can we have a picture from 3ft dictance pls with some fishes to see too? |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:21 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| Nice green. There is no aquaplaning but it is great that you got success in growing plants in first attempt and extreme temperature of Mathura. |
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sandeepraghuvanshi
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:59 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| abhijitk wrote (View Post):
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Great efforts!
It was interesting to see you using Ferrous Gluconate for Fe supplementation.
Could you please provide some guidance on where you got it?
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Ferrous gluconate is also used by Seachem Iron, they claim that it is a better alternative than other Iron chelates.
Maybe it is their marketing, but they have also presented a paper in AGA converntion stating the same.
http://www.seachem.com/support/forums/showthread.php?t=2840
Anyway I purchased it from a shop that supplies lab chemicals. it comes in 500 g packs.
You disslove 15 gm in 1 lit of water.
2.5 ml of this gives me .025 ppm in my 45 g tank.
The results have been good so far. |
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sandeepraghuvanshi
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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Good work, fortune favours the bold! but you havent mentioned anything about cooling the tank, or maybe you dont need it possibly. Can we have a picture from 3ft dictance pls with some fishes to see too?
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It is cooled by a 4" aquarium fan. The temp remains in range of 28-30 C.
I will try to upload another picture, but I doubt if you will see any fish, there are not many, and they tend to hide in dense vegetation. |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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Nice green. There is no aquaplaning but it is great that you got success in growing plants in first attempt and extreme temperature of Mathura.
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Thanks.
Aquascaping was not attempted in this tank.
However I am trying a u shape by trimming of stem plants at back, got some ideas from a Amano article.
I might try it next time, maybe another setup.
Gathering of material required will again take months. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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A small update
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:46 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| That's looking very beautiful |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:01 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| Very nice Sandeep love the lush green look ! Now that you have mastered the basics try your hand at other stem plants and foreground plants. All the best to you ! |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:32 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| Now you can increase the fishes to fully complete the set-up, but please post a picture of the whole tank from 3 feet away, only then it will show how much effort it has taken |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:48 am Post subject: Re: My experiences with High Light Co2 tank |
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| Good update of your tank..... |
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