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Even though I no longer have a tank in my new home, I still consider aquascaping a hobby & passion of mine. I personally take great pleasure in spending countless of hours looking at my scape and trimming it, I find myself at peace. This post is not about me reminiscing about the past, but on a joint contest from Aquaticquotient.com & ADA (Singapore).
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I’m currently nursing myself back to health. Been down with the flu & fever and to top it all off, my throat feels like it just got sand-papered really good. I’ve acquired 6 healthy puppies which are offsprings of my chocolate & apricot poodles. I’m looking for buyers to purchase them, not at any ridiculous prices but more like an ‘adoption’ fee of sorts. In my post, I will explain in detail why.
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So, you have a rather large CO2 tank and would now like to split your CO2 output. You can do so by investing in a CO2 splitter that is available at most local fish shops. The splitter can be used for a single large tank where CO2 displacement is required to be more present around both sides of the tank.
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I came across this post on AquaticQuotient.com quite sometime ago and thought I’d feature this on Aquastuff. External CO2 reactors are good if you have a fairly powerful external canister filter or powered by an external pump and will dissolve even better if your external reactor is connected to a chiller unit. The only drawback with an external reactor is that, if you do not connect it well and tight enough, you can expect a flooded room. Anyways, if you’re pumped up to create your own external CO2 reactor, read on!
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This post is in-relation to my earlier post, Planning for a new tank.. So far I’ve gathered the following items that I will be needing and have a rough estimate on the total overhead.

These are just the hardware items, I’ve yet to include in the tank and the cabinet and the filtration. I’m wondering if I decommision my tank over at my parent’s place, I can get the two Eheim 2028 filters or should I purchase a new Eheim Pro 3E filter?
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