right, after waiting a few weeks for my 80g disposable co2 bottle to run out (on 24/7), i was quite pleased this morning to go and put the kettle on, and not hear the diffuser fizzing away, as i was geared up to switch to a 350g bottle and a solenoid. the tank is a 30x30x35h nano, ph 6.5, kh5 and gh4 (using ro water reconstituted with kh and gh powder) and is kept in the kitchen which has no windows, so the generic 11w pc is on from 4pm-12am. however, as the kitchen light brightened i noticed the 8 microrasboras were extremely stressed. as i prepared to do a ph test one of them leapt out the tank, no sooner had i netted it up off the floor and put it back, another (or the same one) liberated itself onto the kitchen worktop. anyway i got round to testing the ph and found it to have risen to ph7.5!
what i would like to know is, is this going to happen every night? the co2 was off for less time than it will be when it is on the timer!
incidently, while the microrasboras were in a state, i saw one of the japonica's snatch at one and catch it, luckily he escaped, but i think it may explain what happened to the other four, that went missing!
what i would like to know is, is this going to happen every night? the co2 was off for less time than it will be when it is on the timer!
incidently, while the microrasboras were in a state, i saw one of the japonica's snatch at one and catch it, luckily he escaped, but i think it may explain what happened to the other four, that went missing!