Co2! Do I Need It?

rubberdoofa

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Hi , I have recently changed from silk plants to live and im wondering whats all the hype in the shops about this c02 stuff etc do i really need it and all the kit that gos with it? If i do need it then what equipment do i require :unsure:
The aquatics center tell me i could keep crabs quite safely in my tank also , im not so sure, i dont fancy having one of my scaley friends beeing eatten from the tail upwards by an oppotunistic crab! :crazy:
i have living in my tank :

3 clown loaches
3 silver sharks
1 odd red tailed shark
1 alge eatter
6 cobalt gourami
2 panda catfish
1 safron molly and her 2 babies born on the 24th feb

Incidently i would like to rehome the red tailed shark if any one is interested , hes beautiful but a tad too grumpy but the alge eatter gives as good as he gets!! :sly: no scales missing, fins perfect ,colour bright and sleek.
 
Any live plant can pretty much benefit from the addition of CO2. What size is your tank and how many watts of lighting do you have? What do you have for plants in there?
 
Hi,
so i dont nessisarily require c02 but its benificial if i do use it? As for plants well i dont know thier names or much about them,i was told not to buy any thing that looks like a drowned houseplant and Hostas, as you can see im not educated in that department :look:
i have a rio 240 tank the lighting im unsure of now its just two florecent tubes cant remember the names ones pinkish the other white :blush:

Hi,
so i dont nessisarily require c02 but its benificial if i do use it? As for plants well i dont know thier names or much about them,i was told not to buy any thing that looks like a drowned houseplant and Hostas, as you can see im not educated in that department :look:
i have a rio 240 tank the lighting im unsure of now its just two florecent tubes cant remember the names ones pinkish the other white :blush: the wattage of the bulbs cant see the markings on them now they have been in a whie sorry, the tank is taller than me!
 
Yeh I would agree, adding CO2 will help plants in most if not all tanks. The amount it helps will depend on other factors like lighting and ferts. As for kits the nutrafin one is used by many people on here and is a cheap way to start with CO2. However dont use the sachets that come with it, they are crap and expensive. Use baking yeast (activator) and bicarboate of soda (stabiliser)

Do a search for recipe and that should get you want you need re quantities etc.

Sam
 
it also depends on how heavily pkanted you want your tank, the odd java fern here and amazon swrd there will live quite happily without CO2 but if you want a little under water jungle then co2 will definatey be on your shopping list
 

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