As some of you are already aware I tore the tank apart on Sunday and redid all of aquascaping. I seperated my 2 RBTAs to opposite sides of the tank to be able to put both in slightly lower flow areas and to create a more visiually appealing layout.
Woke up this morning to find my B&W Ocellaris Clown hosting in one of the RBTAs. Looks like my percula is trying to do the same, but the B&W won’t let it in, will let it stay on the edge but that’s as far as it’s going.
Pardon the crappy picture - left the flash on and rushed it at 5:30 just to get the photo.
Correct. The tomato clown had always hosted in both of them. But since I separated the anemones to opsite sides of the tank it can’t chase the other clowns away from both at the same time. So the B&W finally got the chance to move in to one of them.
Have yet to have a problem. I have always had 2 clowns. A tomato and a percula. I added the 3rd (ocellaris)about a month ago. The perc and the ocellaris have pal’d around since day 1.
For reference, Josh’s CO2 was at 0.05-0.06% (500-600 ppm).
My basement was a fairly steady 0.04% with one blip to 0.05% (400-480 ppm). I’ll post up my PH after I check it, my tank gets pretty well aerated.
Atmospheric conditions are 0.03-0.04% (350-450 ppm). Sensor reads 0.03-0.04% in an outside environment. The sensors displayed resolution is 0.01%. The sensor reads 2.96% in NIST cert. 3.02% gas and deviates less at lower %s.
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For reference, Josh’s CO2 was at 0.05-0.06% (500-600 ppm).
My basement was a fairly steady 0.04% with one blip to 0.05% (400-480 ppm). I’ll post up my PH after I check it, my tank gets pretty well aerated.
Atmospheric conditions are 0.03-0.04% (350-450 ppm). Sensor reads 0.03-0.04% in an outside environment. The sensors displayed resolution is 0.01%. The sensor reads 2.96% in NIST cert. 3.02% gas and deviates less at lower %s. [/quote]
Any chance we can get this converted to English please?
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Any chance we can get this converted to English please?[/quote]
[quote=“IanH, post:6, topic:939”]
For reference, Josh’s CO2 was at 0.05-0.06% (500-600 ppm).[/quote]
English: the carbon dioxide in Josh’s tank room was slightly higher than the outside air
My basement was a fairly steady 0.04% with one blip to 0.05% (400-480 ppm). I'll post up my PH after I check it, my tank gets pretty well aerated.
English: the carbon dioxide in my tank room is slightly higher, but closer to outside air.
Atmospheric conditions are 0.03-0.04% (350-450 ppm). Sensor reads 0.03-0.04% in an outside environment. The sensors displayed resolution is 0.01%. The sensor reads 2.96% in NIST cert. 3.02% gas and deviates less at lower %s.
English: the carbon dioxide is lower outside than both Josh's and my tank rooms.
Conclusion: Insufficient data, only for informational purposes.
That's really cool. What does equipment like that cost?
That was with a “personal co2 monitor” I think it was around $300-$400? The more precise units I use in my lab are around $700-1000. NIST traceable calibration gas runs around $300 a “K” bottle (~220 cu) from Matheson Tri-gas.
Actually I did. Dosed 2 gallons over the last 4 days. Seems to be at around 8.1 during the day and 8.0 at night. Much better! I just did a water change and added a little too much water so I have to wait for some to evaporate before I dose more. But will continue and report the results. One thing I have noticed already, my Zoos are looking better. For some reason, Zoos didn’t like my tank. Hopefully bringing the ph up will help them out.
Oh, and the inlaws got a pretty big kick out of the ziploc bag of “cocaine” (aka Kalkwasser) on my kitchen table…
