CO2 project upgrade

Comparison 3rd day after CO2 injection

After my success with the first fish with CO2, I've decided to buy a pressurized system. With the proper system I can choose to inject as many tank as I wish. Besides a pressurized system is much more effective in dosing CO2.

I started with the Black tank fish as it is just next to the 9bars CO2 tank that was first experiment with. Its easier to control both of them being neighbors. The pressurized system is not easy controlling the bubble count and I was kinda uneasy having to pump pressurized CO2 with this, I need to be careful as they comes in very fine bubbles that makes dissolving mighty effective. And too much of CO2 in still water couple with thicken surface can lead to disaster - CO2 poisoning.

Experiment with such precious fish makes me nervous. Anyhow I set the bubble count to around 5 seconds per bubbles, its hard work tweaking this, I spend 2 days doing so. I kept a close watched on both the fish for CO2 poisoning. The fish behaves normal and so far so good.

On the 3rd day I notice the scales of the black tank fish is much brighter, and I can see flowers forming at the edge of the scales, plenty of them started blooming. I'm not sure if they will grown to full flowers and only time will tell. On the 9bar fish things is just as usual, I did not notice much changes as the fish was subject to CO2 dosing for the passed 2 months.

Notice whites on edge of scales forming

Plenty of them forming

3l cylinder

Pain in the arse adjusting them

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