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Re: Closed top planted tank
I'd just like to point out that Bob is not injecting co2 in this tank. The
original poster was inquiring about injecting co2 _and_ sealing the top. I
haven't heard of folks doing this, and it's a bad idea, as George said.
Sylvia
>> I`ve read about aquarium tops with Co2 injection having " very tightly
>> closed tops " to keep the Co2 loss
>> down a bit .
> I have a 55-gallon with no gases of any type being pumped in. It has a
"VERY
>
> TIGHT" fitting, homemade lid. It gets opened twice a day for feeding and
> when I do water changes. During the summer heat wave I got lazy and it
went
>
> ten weeks without a water change. The water level did not drop enough for
> me
> to see it or measure it. The fish and the plants do fine. So I guess I
> WILL
> tell folks how to do it.