My Planted Rio 240 With Co2

[ceech]

This is a new video of my planted tank rio 240 .It has in it, Neon and cardinal tetra ,rasboros,rummie nose tetra,zebra diano,black widow tetra,4 gourmais dwarf blue and red types,corys albino and peppered,eels 5 small, apisto ,dwarf rams and a pleco. It has a 1000l/h external filter and a new sera co2 setup.It has lots of plants and hide aways for all the fish in the tank and they seem to be schooling well.i have taken all big fish out of the tank as there were bullying the smaller fish ,which was stopping them schooling but all seems to be good again and all the fish are doing great let me know what ya think Smile i am looking forward to see how it will look in a month or two Smile by then some of the swords and things should be growing better with the co2 injection system Smile it is a sera co2 setup for up to 500 litres.
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92ukxYGnKA

 

[gregswimm]

Gorgeous tank!

 

[Curiosity101]

Really really nice. I like how you've managed to layer it so well. I'm awful at scaping.

 

[crimsontsavo]

Beautiful!

Lush tanks always make me smile.

 

[three-fingers]

Looks great, very nicely done!

Using an air pump along with the CO2 does mean your going to have to replace the CO2 canister more frequently though, I would remove it personally .

 

[ceech]

co2 is new for me so i am scared to turn off the air incase i dose too much co2.

 

[RadaR]

Other than judging by the plants health and acting on that, there is a popular method which we use to guage roughly what the CO2 concentration is.
Check out this guide.
Once the drop checker is set-up, set the CO2 bubble rate to 2 bubbles per second. Then simply judge from there. You want to achieve a lime green drop checker. If 2 bubbles per second does that, then great. If the drop checker is dark green or even blue after 2 hours then turn the CO2 up slightly. If the the drop checker turns yellow in 2 hours then turn the CO2 down slightly. You can test the CO2 concentration by placing the drop checker all throughout the tank to ensure there is an even distribution of CO2.
At night you can simply drop back the rate or even turn the CO2 off. Just make sure it's back up to the certain rate which achieves the lime green colour, 1 to 2 hours before the light comes back on.
As mentioned already, injecting CO2 and running an airstone is fighting a losing battle and counter productive, not to mention costly.