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Co2 for easy grow plants? Betta Aquarium!

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Ok so im a lil confused with regards to the whole CO2 aspect of a live planted aquarium with livestock. I’m only planning on having a 50l tank with a betta and some shrimps, ill be using Tropica aquarium soil and aqua essentials adv their neutro combo - low tech plant fertilizers and they adv liquid co2 is in this. Which im under the impression i just add to the water. Is this a recommended method or is there a better co2 method? I dont want to make it too complicated as my first planted aquarium and only 50 lte and will have easy plants so my question really is would the neutro combo low tech plant fertilizers which include liquid co2 be sufficient enough ?
 
By all means use the neutro T (which is the fertiliser part of the combo). Personally I wouldn‘t bother with the liquid CO2. It’s useful as an algaecide, but I don’t believe It adds any significant quantities of CO2 to benefit the plants.
 
Hi
You don't need Co2 if you intend to stick to the easy and low energy plants for a while.
Learn to grow those plants healthily and then think about adding Co2 for the more demanding plants.
MD below runs 99% of his aquariums without Co2!
hoggie
 
"Liquid CO2" is a bit controversial; you can find a few threads about it on here.
btw, it's not included in that fert, it's 'recommended' (by the people selling it) that you buy both.
'neutro combo - low tech plant fertilizer' is not a complete fertiliser, - just trace elements and no macronutrients. I double-checked that before replying to your other thread and saw what they have to say about their liquid carbon. Some of it seems dubious to, and some of it appears to be nonsense; eg "Tap water has zero carbon in it". No dissolved CO2? No carbonate hardness?
If you "dont want to make it too complicated" I would not bother with "Liquid CO2", but if you want to learn about it, read up on here, where nobody is trying to sell you stuff. The same with injected CO2.
hth :)
 
sparkyweasel said:
"Liquid CO2" is a bit controversial; you can find a few threads about it on here.
btw, it's not included in that fert, it's 'recommended' (by the people selling it) that you buy both.
'neutro combo - low tech plant fertilizer' is not a complete fertiliser, - just trace elements and no macronutrients. I double-checked that before replying to your other thread and saw what they have to say about their liquid carbon. Some of it seems dubious to, and some of it appears to be nonsense; eg "Tap water has zero carbon in it". No dissolved CO2? No carbonate hardness?
If you "dont want to make it too complicated" I would not bother with "Liquid CO2", but if you want to learn about it, read up on here, where nobody is trying to sell you stuff. The same with injected CO2.
hth :)
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Oh okay thank you for that I was a bit dubious when looking at the info on the site for it and what they advised me hence why I’m confused haha! So I’m probably better off not using that fertilizer either then? What about the premium nutritoon for Tropica? If not, then anything you’d recommend fertilizer wise to go with tropica aquarium soil ? I’m planning on going for easy plants to start with as per the Tropica classifications, would you say co2 would be required/recommended for those? If so do you have any recommendations on the best type?
hypnogogia said:
Have a look at his “The red forest Betta tank”.
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amazing is that in here? I’ll have a look
GHNelson said:
Hi
You don't need Co2 if you intend to stick to the easy and low energy plants for a while.
Learn to grow those plants healthily and then think about adding Co2 for the more demanding plants.
MD below runs 99% of his aquariums without Co2!
hoggie
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I’ll have a look at that page thank you!
 
As others have said, I wouldn't bother with CO2, it just adds an extra layer of complication and possible problems! Like a lot folk here, I don't run CO2, but it's easy to get the impression that most do. Tanks with CO2 are known as High tech tanks and tanks without are low tech. Low tech makes for slower growth of plants, but also slower growth of algae, giving much more wiggle room, especially for folk new to planted tanks or fishkeeping in general. Low tech is much more forgiving :)
 
sparkyweasel said:
Specialised is the complete one, Premium is "for aquariums with many fish" and, if I remember rightly, you are having a single Betta.
TNC Complete is another good one.
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Okay thank you yeah looking at a betta and prob a group of shrimp but im still on the fence about the shrimp at the mo! So I’ll go for the Tropica specialised. Will also look at TNC and just to make sure I haven’t got confused again, so they’re the fertiliser… not co2? I need to get that separate or not bother at all cus i just got the betta
 
There's one more argument against CO2 injection in this instance, I believe. If you inject CO2, you need good water flow to distribute CO2 evenly in all parts of the tank. But Bettas love still water.
 
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