Re: [GSAS-Member] Shrimp and CO2

["Clifford Miller" <clifford@clevergeek.com>]

I've never had a problem with C02 hurting shrimp or fish, but I also add
beach shells, small amounts of ground up cuttlebone, or small amounts of
marine substrate to fix up the rain/dehumidifier water I use in my tanks. 
(which I do if I'm not using CO2 most of the time too).

I've done tank and DIY yeast-based C02 reactors (with either bakers or
brewers yeast, and sugar) which I assume are fairly similar to what you
have?  I've never had a problem with either Amano or Cherry Shrimp.

I'm not sure how the Nutrafin system is set up, but be careful to minimize
the chance that your activator/stabilizer can over-ferment and leak into
your tank. It's never happened to me, but I've read a number of accounts
of poisoned fish from those when the alcohol sludge bubbles up into the
tank (or starts a siphon drawing it into the tank-- which shouldn't happen
in a firm container...I think that's more of an issue with the pop bottle
variety).



> Hey gang, at the massive Blue SIerra sale this weekend (and wow, what
> deals!!), I picked up an old open-topped display tank they had set up in
> the
> store at one point.  It's an Azoo Garden Aquarium, notch-front so that you
> can load it with plants I guess.  Anyway, I set it up and transferred most
> of the cherry shrimp I got from Susan a couple weks ago, and they seem to
> be
> loving it.
>
> My quession is: if I set up CO2 in this tank to help the plants, will it
> hurt the shrimp?  The tank setup came with a Nutrafin Natural Plant System
> C)2 canister, which calls for adding sugar and their "special packets" of
> activator and stabilizor.  I assume this is something someone can tell me
> how to make on my own without their "special packets"  :-)  But I've never
> used a CO2 system before, so I'm totally unsure how to se thte thing or if
> I
> should at all, what with the shrimp.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks! - Phil
>
>
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