Plant tanks

[f250fisherman]

I transferred the plants to the 55 gal tank. They were growing too tall for the 10's...
Here's a few pics.

 

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Left side.

 

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Right side. I just finished placing in tanks, and the water is stirred up some.

 

[f250fisherman]

Had a bad experience. My 55 gal I turned into a plant growing tank started leaking last week. Came home to a mess. I drained, cleaned , and re sealed it. Just refilled it last night. So far so good, but I lost a couple of plants in the process, and a couple took a back step too. I probably lost 2 weeks for the week they was in a small tank with not as much good light. I'm hoping to have a female community tank in it when I have my next spawn.

 

[f250fisherman]

Another leak...in the back this time. Guess I'll redo the whole bottom. Anyone want to help?

 

[SRC]

So, can you walk us through this homemade C02 and it's process and function.

I have some grass that I was told needed C02 or it would die...but I'm just not willing to spend $200 on a C02 system for 1 patch of plants lol. If I could find a cheaper way..then maybe yeah.

Does the C02 hurt the fish? Is it good for them? DOes it affect them in any way?

 

[f250fisherman]

The very basic do it yourself is take a 2 litre pop bottle, drill small hole in lid and glue in a piece of stiff airline tubing. You connect flexible airline tubing to it and the other end to another piece of stiff tubing that you place in the pickup tube in your power filter. You mix 6 cups water, 3/4 cup sugar, and 1/4 tsp of yeast. Shake well. The yeast puts off co2 as it feeds and multiplys off of the sugar. The co2 will go through the airline, and as it goes through the filter, it breaks up and dissolves into the water. Very inexpensive. I did this to start. Now I have another bottle going into a large tube that a water pump connects to. The water makes a vortex, mixing the co2. The unit was 12.00 total. I'll try and take pics. If you look at the tank pic, the clear tube with the orange lid is what I mean.

 

[AlexsDaddy]

I had been wondering about putting the co2 tube into the filters intake tube. Wondered how good it would work. Turns out it works pretty good from what you said. A reactor just takes up too much room in a small tank.

 

[SRC]

ok..so I get how to make it.

What I need to know now is...

How do you attach it?

Does it need to be higher, lower, even with the water line? (like the air pump wants to be higher).

How often do you replace the mixture?

 

[Discomafia]

Every 2-3 weeks, depending on your water and yeast... Head over to the plants forum lot of info on DIY CO2 there...

 

[f250fisherman]

Finally got the leak fixed, and the plants settled back in. Here's my new setup.

 

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Here's a closer look.

 

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Here's the other side.

 

[cation]

Looking good. You've got some lovely starts to your plants, they'll be superb in no time! (assuming you fixed the tank right... )

 

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