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Anybody used AE Design Aqua Carbon instead of easy carbo or flourish excel? It has same recomended dosage like flourish so I assume it has same concentration of Glutaraldehyde (active part of easycarbo and flourish) as Flourish while its much cheaper :hyper: making it reasonable alternative to CO2 system cost wise.
 
Anybody used AE Design Aqua Carbon instead of easy carbo or flourish excel? It has same recomended dosage like flourish so I assume it has same concentration of Glutaraldehyde (active part of easycarbo and flourish) as Flourish while its much cheaper :hyper: making it reasonable alternative to CO2 system cost wise.
 
ima mewbie to planted tanks but from what i can gather liquid carbon is different to c02. i think that it will help your plants but there are a lot of other factors like substrate and light. if you have just got easy grow plants like elodea and java fern etc with bog standard gravel it will make a difference just not a massive one as will root clayballs. hope this helps :good:

ima mewbie to planted tanks but from what i can gather liquid carbon is different to c02. i think that it will help your plants but there are a lot of other factors like substrate and light. if you have just got easy grow plants like elodea and java fern etc with bog standard gravel it will make a difference just not a massive one as will root clayballs. hope this helps :good:

ps i have used a diy c02 system witch costs pennys! but there are a lot of for and against to them. it alo makes things a lot more complex, may be worth looking into as a cheap alternative but do your homework.
 
diy CO2 (yeast type) system is defo a no go for me, had enough experience of them on industrial scale during studies (bio rector design, etc.) to know how unstable it is in home conditions :crazy: not to mention of mess involved :)
If i went into playing with yeast i would prefere to use it to make some homebrew instead :)

As atm pressurised system is over my budget :-( That leaves liquid carbon and creates question - which one of three available :)
 
i personally use flourish and am happy with the results, so havent had any experience with any of the other brands.
 
I used to use EasyCarbo then switched to the Aqua Essentials version; I've seen no difference since I changed. I wouldn't be without it. I can't use pressurised co2 because I work a twelve hour shift (plus an hour's travel each way); if something went wrong when I'm at work I won't be able to do a thing about it. Dosing 5ml liquid a day before I go to work is much better for me.
 
I used to use EasyCarbo then switched to the Aqua Essentials version; I've seen no difference since I changed. I wouldn't be without it. I can't use pressurised co2 because I work a twelve hour shift (plus an hour's travel each way); if something went wrong when I'm at work I won't be able to do a thing about it. Dosing 5ml liquid a day before I go to work is much better for me.


Ae liquid carbon is great, apparently it is slightly more concentrated than easycarbo too.. i use it :good:
 

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