Co2 Problems

[Barday]

Hi All,

I recently Installed a Nutrafin CO2 system to hopefully benifit my new plants. ANyway I put it on last night and turned off the bubble wall. Within 6 hours all the fish were at the top gasping for air. Am I doing anything wrong?

 

[xoedusk]

Hi All,

I recently Installed a Nutrafin CO2 system to hopefully benifit my new plants. ANyway I put it on last night and turned off the bubble wall. Within 6 hours all the fish were at the top gasping for air. Am I doing anything wrong?

Turn you bubble wall back on to release some of that CO2. I'm guessing the levels are too high?

Post your pH and KH test results if you can.

 

[Themuleous]

How big in the tank you're running the nutrafin unit on? If you only just started it I'd be very surprised to hear you managed to OD the CO2, this is also almost impossible unless the tank is very very small.

Sam

 

[Sammie7]

What mixture did you use? For example, the amount of sugar, yeast, water, and baking soda.

 

[George Farmer]

Another important factor is fish stocking levels.

What size is the tank and what fish are in there?