Do you need Pressurised CO2 to grow HC?

[Krishs Bettas]

Can I use a liquid carbon or DIY Yeast system?
Please help.

 

[Nick16]

what size is your tank?

alot of people have found pressurized better than liquid co2 for HC. but it all depends on your tank size.

 

[Themuleous]

Liquid carbon is ok, but plants have evolved to use CO2 not liquid carbon. If its a large tank, it can also be costly

Sam

 

[baron von bubba]

Liquid carbon is ok, but plants have evolved to use CO2 not liquid carbon. If its a large tank, it can also be costly

Sam

why are ppl always saying how expensive it can be?

http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/index.p ... ts_id=1809
this would cost £60-£70 per year in a 240 litre tank, which is pretty much the same it'll cost me to refill my FE's in a year.

am i missing something?

 

[JamesM]

To be fair, the dosing guide isn't great as most peoples idea of a planted tank is a tank with a few plants in, not a real planted tank with like 90%+ substrate coverage. I can easily double the dose of EasyCarbo without problems. And HC loves liquid carbon as much as it loves a good trim.

 

[Krishs Bettas]

My tank size is a 60 cm by 30 cm by 30 cm.
I hope that helps abit.

 

[AdAndrews]

To be fair, the dosing guide isn't great as most peoples idea of a planted tank is a tank with a few plants in, not a real planted tank with like 90%+ substrate coverage. I can easily double the dose of EasyCarbo without problems. And HC loves liquid carbon as much as it loves a good trim.

ditto, i have had success with liquid carbon and hc.

 

[chilled84]

How much easy carb you useing withing your tanks. Im doseing 1.5 each day in my 80 ltr tank with 15 or so different plants and HC.

 

[Slyspy]

I couldn't keep HC alive as a carpeting plant using Easycarbo in a Rio 180 with stock lighting. It is now thriving as a floating plant!

 

[Superman]

In my nano, HC grew with dosing EC, but you see a massive step change when I moved to pressurised co2.
I would say, you don't NEED pressurised co2 for a nice HC carpet but pressurised co2 will always be preferable.

Remember that with DIY (yeast) co2, that it can be a bit fiddly, cause co2 fluctuations and not all co2 diffusers can work with it (as the gas pressure isn't high enough).

 

[NeilW]

I found you need to overdose on EasyCarbo for HC, which is a bit of an issue if you keep CRS like me...