Your View On Easy Life Easycarbo ?

[Deleted member 107737]

Hi All,
 
Ive just bought a bottle of easy life easy carbo.
 
Already im using some substrate tabs and nutrafin plant gro. The helpful guy at the shop said the carbo stuff is the next best thing to substitute a pressurised co2 setup.
 
So every 3-4 months im adding 2 new seachem tabs, 2.5ml a day of nutrafin plant gro and now im going to be adding 3ml a day of the easy carbo.
 
Does this all sound like a good combination and would you say my results for growing dwarf hairgrass will improve??
 
 
Thanks,
 
Dave

 

[techen]

To be honest, I love my LFS and they recommended me Easy carbo when I wanted liquid CO2, Said it lasts longer and is cheaper.
 
I trust them so am going to say it's pretty good
 
You will notice a different with liquid CO2 but you want to increase your lighting as well.

 

[Deleted member 107737]

thanks. For a 40 gallon how many watts would you say will do my tank justice??

 

[eaglesaquarium]

It depends on the type of bulbs...

 

[Deleted member 107737]

2x t5

 

[eaglesaquarium]

These are more intense than T8s.  60-80W...

 

[Deleted member 107737]

thank you

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I use it and notice no difference whatsoever... started using because of high lighting causing algae... in the end, I made a shade instead!

 

[eaglesaquarium]

What kind of algae was it?

 

[PrairieSunflower]

The brown sort.  Since creating a blue clear shade it has nearly completely cleared.

 

[snazy]

You don't need high light when dosing liquid carbon and you don't need to increase your lighting. Not sure where that comes from.
Liquid carbon is 10-20 times less effective than injected CO2 and low light is best, otherwise the minimum you'll get is black beard/brush algae.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

You don't need high light when dosing liquid carbon and you don't need to increase your lighting. Not sure where that comes from.
Liquid carbon is 10-20 times less effective than injected CO2 and low light is best, otherwise the minimum you'll get is black beard/brush algae.

 
 
 

Does this all sound like a good combination and would you say my results for growing dwarf hairgrass will improve??

 
 
I believe this question is the cause for the suggestion for more light.
 
 
There's no doubt that injecting co2 is more effective and more efficient than liquid carbon.  But, these products can be safely used at higher doses than the recommended.  I've heard of it being successful as high as triple the dose.  Of course, I would never do that, because the expense would be far too great, but that doesn't mean it can't be done successfully. 

 

[snazy]

Just with easy carbo, and high light you'd suffer a great deal of algae. It probably can be done...
Dwarf hairgrass isn't a light demanding plant if you are talking about the eleocharis species but it needs extra CO2 source. Many of the carpet plants don't do well because of 2 important things, the flow doesn't reach the bottom, or not enough CO2 in general.

 

[SO19Firearms]

Liquid carbon is 10-20 times less effective than injected CO2

I'll have to have a think about that - But at first glance I'm gonna go with "I don't believe you".....

 

[snazy]

Liquid carbon is 10-20 times less effective than injected CO2

I'll have to have a think about that - But at first glance I'm gonna go with "I don't believe you".....

 
You can correct me then.