[New co2 user questions]

Can you give more specific advice on tiptoeing up to the correct level and how I will know when I'm there?

[New co2 user questions]

Just set up co2 today, running 30ish psi about 1.5 bubbles per second, 2" jraldi diffuser in a 55 gallon, how many hours should I expect it to run before the drop checker turns green with the checker on the opposite end? I have guppies and neocardinia, everything I've read says 30ppm is too much for the shrimp and that's the level my checker is supposed to change and I'd hate to surpass the ideal level before it tells me. does anyone have first hand experience they can share to make sure I dont kill my critters in the pursuit of nicer plants? 

[Test result reading please]

12 minutes ago, Gregmk2 said:

I use the JBL Proscan kit, all the results are shown on your Phone app. Works for me as I have a degree of colour blindness.

 

You are the man!

[Creating a new Guppy Strain...]

I'm so sorry to hear that, as good a job as you did the first time I'm sure you will do even better this time around.

[Test result reading please]

Thanks guys I'll err on the lower side from now on.

[Test result reading please]

I cant tell colors well, I think ammonia is either zero or under .25ppm, nitrite 0, and somewhere between 20-30ppm nitrate but the orange is really hard for me to tell.

Ps you blew me away getting the test kit to east Tennessee in under 2 days for free shipping.

[Madagascar lace flowering problem]

That was actually very helpful, it proved the info I found false and gave me hope. Now to find one locally before spring when I can have it shipped.

[Fresh Fry to the Forum :P And ideas for a 55g with a gold gourami?]

Hello from Knoxville 

[Macro lens for shrimp, guppies, and plants]

What magnification clip on phone macro lens do you find is best for capturing small critters in motion? If amazon links are allowed I'd love to see your preferred model. I'd also love photography tips specific to aquariums and dealing with glare.

[Planted Lights for budget]

I've been very satisfied with my beamworks da series. They match the wattage of the fluval 3.0 at least on the 48".

[Madagascar lace flowering problem]

I read they wont grow over 72, can you confirm this? I run around 77-78 and would love to have one.

[My tank, several questions, conversation welcome]

Adding co2 this weekend as parts come in and new to that so anything you think I might have missed in my reading would be helpful. Funnily enough I cant grow hornwort but my jungle val and frogbit are prodigious and lead to about a bucket a week being sold and a bucket thrown away. Got some easy green and easy iron on the way so hopefully it will do me better than flourish has been, I am very lightly stocked and have 0 nitrates so could you reccomend a dosage schedule? I tend to run my light at least 12 hours per day because I prefer faster growth and i like the algae at the top of the grass and it's the only algae I ever have much of so I dont mind the side effect. Have a big hob  on the right side and adding a sponge in each back corner, where would you put the diffuser? Ordered a 2" jraldi. Have blue dream shrimp, guppies, and mystery snails, how many bubbles per second should I start with and how hard can I push it for max growth with enough food and light without becoming a problem for my shrimp?  My water goes in the tank around 7.8ph and 300ppm and comes out 7.2 and very soft currently, test kit on the way to give better info on gh and kh. Sorry my thoughts dont flow into nonrunonn sentences. Need help maxing growth without killing my little buddies.

[Creating a new Guppy Strain...]

I like your blue dream, would you be interested in sending some to Tennessee to go with my blue dream shrimp?