Buszmann
Seedling
Hello,
There is lots a good info out there for CO2 issues and I tried to piece various threads info together to cover my situation, but it wasn't going perfectly. So here we go.
I have an 80g tank with pressurized CO2 currently delivered via a glass diffuser with ceramic plate. I placed the diffuser under the inlet to the return pump and the CO2 is distributed in the tank through a spray bar. My problem is that I cannot get my drop checker to go green (yes I am using 4dkh solution). Running at a constant bubble stream (can’t even count bps) I can manage to get the checker to a dark green. The trillions of bubbles coming out the spray bar are very very tiny and float in a barrel roll type motion in the tank seemingly endless. Do I need a better diffusion method? Or is agitation my only problem?
I know I have a boat load of agitation. My spray bar agitates the surface (currently has slight upward angle). The overflows are packed with bio balls so that the water doesn’t splash down the spillways at least. Someone once told me that it’s okay to have water trickling down the bio balls as long as the water doesn't fall and splash onto them. The refugium below the tank (21g) has quite a bit of surface agitation as well when going from one compartment to the next before getting pumped back up to the tank.
I can get a diagram going or a few pics if needed. Any thoughts and comments on where I should focus my efforts are appreciated.
Thanks!
There is lots a good info out there for CO2 issues and I tried to piece various threads info together to cover my situation, but it wasn't going perfectly. So here we go.
I have an 80g tank with pressurized CO2 currently delivered via a glass diffuser with ceramic plate. I placed the diffuser under the inlet to the return pump and the CO2 is distributed in the tank through a spray bar. My problem is that I cannot get my drop checker to go green (yes I am using 4dkh solution). Running at a constant bubble stream (can’t even count bps) I can manage to get the checker to a dark green. The trillions of bubbles coming out the spray bar are very very tiny and float in a barrel roll type motion in the tank seemingly endless. Do I need a better diffusion method? Or is agitation my only problem?
I know I have a boat load of agitation. My spray bar agitates the surface (currently has slight upward angle). The overflows are packed with bio balls so that the water doesn’t splash down the spillways at least. Someone once told me that it’s okay to have water trickling down the bio balls as long as the water doesn't fall and splash onto them. The refugium below the tank (21g) has quite a bit of surface agitation as well when going from one compartment to the next before getting pumped back up to the tank.
I can get a diagram going or a few pics if needed. Any thoughts and comments on where I should focus my efforts are appreciated.
Thanks!