[APD] Old tank, old list lurker, need CO2 advice

["Jeff Dafoe" <jeff at downtowndevelopmentplan_com>]

Hello,

I've been on this list for what seems like forever.  I've also been feeding
bottled CO2 into my Eheim Pro 2's intake for what also seems like forever, on
a somwhat sloppily maintained 75g planted aquarium that is about 10 years old.
 The Eheim's seals have failed (I've replaced every seal inside and it still
leaks) and I have a replacement coming today.  I no longer want to feed CO2
into the Eheim.  I'm not sure what the best alternative is.  I did some
research and saw that the Rio 800 may work, but then I did more reading and
apparently it lets out a crazy strong stream of water.  I'm not trying to make
some crazy lush maintenance-intensive tank, but I do have a fair amount of
plants that I'd like to keep going.  I guess I'm just looking for some sort of
guidance as to what has become common practice over the last ten years.  My
setup is a 40lb CO2 tank with a Swagelok needle valve running into an Eheim
Pro 3.  I only have 110 watts of lighting but it seems to grow the plants I am
looking for, some of the plants are so old I can't even remember what they
are.  There's a Tropica fern that all I can remember was the variant was named
after the founder, some Crypts, a couple of varieties of Aponogeton, some sort
of dwarf sword.  Nothing crazy, but I think it's a fairly old tank for this
hobby and I'm pretty happy with it.

Thanks in advance,
-Jeff
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