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For my understanding, the air pump help to pearl because last time you don't have enough oxygen on your tank.Originally Posted by Dscheng
I on my co2 (1-2bps) like 8 hr daily. No pearling effect until I install an airstone with air pump. Now I can see pearling effect almost everyday. Plant growing like crazy fast.
For my understanding, the air pump help to pearl because last time you don't have enough oxygen on your tank.
This phenomenon seems a little counterintuitive.
(1) Plants needs CO2 to produce O2 (hence pearling).
(2) Air pump creates water agitation, which increases CO2 "escaping" the water.
Can anyone offer a logical explanation?
Or
(1) The injected CO2 is not dissolving effectively hence the CO2 in water is not increased significantly.
(2) The air pump is dissolving more CO2 in water than the injected CO2 (ref 1). Hence the plants are growing better.
Pearling from plants basically indicate oxygen saturation in the water... if the water is able to generate higher concentration of oxygen (through other means), then less oxygen needs to be produced by plant photosynthesis to achieve saturation and pearling.
Like what Thatasky mentioned, it could be previously the plants were already photosynthesizing well but the oxygen levels in the tank were still relatively low, so no visible pearling effect. The air pump managed to increase the oxygen content in the water to a point allowing it to be saturated more easily (the Co2 injected was probably more than enough, so even if some was driven off by surface agitation, the plants still have sufficient amounts to use).
So if you want both good oxygenation and good Co2 levels, you could have active surface agitation + just inject more Co2 to compensate (its possible for both oxygen and Co2 to be high at the same time), it'll just be a matter of adjusting the balance.
Just did a Water parameter check today as of 28/2/2015 4:07 PM
Using API Test Master
Ammonia(NHH3/NH4)= 2 ppm
Nitrate(NO3) = 20 ppm
Nitrite (NO2) = .25 ppm
PH = 6.4
Any advised when i can put an Amano shrimp on it?
When the ammonia and nitrite are consistently at zero, and only nitrate have readings (preferably less than 40ppm), then the tank is considered cycled and you can start to add livestock (like amano shrimps).
I'm not sure if i did a right thing but i bought 10 Yamato wild, 6 red cherry shrimp and 4 Siamese today. Crossing finger my finger to see everyone tomorrow morning. shrimp1.jpgshrimp2.jpgshrimp3.jpgshrimp4.jpg
Hoping none of this shrimp jump to their deaths. ...
4 siamese algae eaters are a little too much for your tank size. They become territorial later on and also a pest. I stopped including them in my algae crew a while back.
Holy is the Lord, God Almighty ! The Earth is filled with His Glory !
90 x 50 x 50 cm tank: Eheim 2217; ANS CO2 Solenoid with 60mm intense bazooka; Zetlight 6400; Teco 500 Chiller; Borneo Wild Steel inlet/outlet
Ferts: Dry Mixture/Dr Mallicks. Temp: 26 degrees Substrate: ADA Amazonia
Erm, what the difference yamato shrimp and wild ? Your look like those normal yamato. Ytd I saw c328 selling yamato wild is yellow colour. Hmm.
That's the thing bro. I bought it last nigh at C328 with a plastic label Yamato wild. But i tell you bro, when i release this shrimps, in a few hours all algae are gone... damn they really good.
@Phlippians . Thinking what to do on the siamese algae eaters. But how they become a pest?
Well i read that they can grow until 8cm so it means its really big. If that is the case then anyone want a siamese Algae eater can collect at my home i got 4 extra. 2 at new tank and 2 at the old tank.
Guys need some serious advise regarding live stocks stacking.
Currently on my 60x30x36 cm tank i got 10 Yamato, 6 RCS, 4 algae eaters. On my other tank i got 9 Cardinal supposed to be transfer to the new tank.
It is advisable to have the following:
9 x cardinal
10 x yamato
6 x RCS
I just want my shrimp clean up crew then the siamese transfer to below tank.
Get oto and nerite snail. They are good in cleaning algae too. My current tank also 2 feet, 5 yamato, 2 SAE, 5 oto and 3 nerite snail. Other than the stupid wall algae. I don't have much algae issue. Further I dose the algaexit. So far so good.
Bro, thanks for the suggestion but my question is does i not over stocking adding the 9 cardinal with a current loads?
I think ok. I have more than u.
8 guppies
8 tetra
3 cherry barb
1 platy
5 oto, 5 yamato, 6 rcs, 2 SAE
6 dwarf crayfish, 3 nerite snail.
So far so good.
Get otos because they are very hardworking and very shy creatures who do a lot of "backstage" work. Kind to shrimps too. Probably get 2 at least. My 2 x1.5 x1.5 ft tank has 12 kobutai, 2 wild white cloud mountain, 1 galaxy, 12 - 14 pygamaes cory, 50- 80 plus cherries, 5 yamato, 10 malayan shrimps, 4 otos, another 2 small catfish. I think you can stock up another 5 - 8 critters.
Holy is the Lord, God Almighty ! The Earth is filled with His Glory !
90 x 50 x 50 cm tank: Eheim 2217; ANS CO2 Solenoid with 60mm intense bazooka; Zetlight 6400; Teco 500 Chiller; Borneo Wild Steel inlet/outlet
Ferts: Dry Mixture/Dr Mallicks. Temp: 26 degrees Substrate: ADA Amazonia
Wa that really a lot lolz. Did your rcs shrimplet survive in such condition?
The bio-load of fishes and shrimps in Phillipians particular tank is actually quite moderate, considering that his tank is a L60cm x D45cm x H45cm design, which works out to 121+ liters... thats almost twice the volume of a typical L60cm x D30cm x H36cm tank, which is only 64 liters.
Oh ya.. I nearly brought this type of tank.
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