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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #605
In a message dated 97-03-24 07:23:14 EST, you write:
<< My guess is that Robert took his canister out of service before his
trickle
filter went through the nitrogen cycle and that this might have caused the
outbreak. I haven't experimented with DIY CO2, but I haven't noticed a
significant increase in CO2 when I occasionally shut off the trickle filter
and leave the CO2 system running. >>
I measure my ph with the American Marine Pinpoint ph Monitor, which has an
accuracy of one hundredth of a ph point. It clearly showed a rise of about
.6 in ph over two or three hours after I turned on my trickle filter.
I suspect that some of the CO2 outgassing could have been caused by the
prefilter box and not the trickle filter itself. The outside box has a
vortex of water spinning down the tube leading to the trickle filter, and
this probably would drive lots of CO2 out of solution.