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Friends:
My 5g pico "buget build" is a year old. After fighting a LOT of algae and bacteria blooms in the first year, the microbiome seems to be stabilzing. However, the water chemistry is still hard to keep stable because of the tiny water volume.
I am considering moving to the IM10 for many reasons. The reason relevant here is to add a little more stability to the water chemistry. Will "doubling" the water volume to 10 gallons offer me enough stability to make the upgrade worth the effort?
Before people start chiming in about going much larger: that is not an option. First, I just prefer pico/nano tanks; it's a prefernce. Second, I live in an apartment in downtown Houston and need to be mobile because I move around a lot. I know people will want to argue this point but I only want to know if ten gallons will increase water stabulity enough to make this specific upgrade worth the time.
Any thoughts on the IM10 or equivalent AIO systems is also appreciated.
My 5g pico "buget build" is a year old. After fighting a LOT of algae and bacteria blooms in the first year, the microbiome seems to be stabilzing. However, the water chemistry is still hard to keep stable because of the tiny water volume.
I am considering moving to the IM10 for many reasons. The reason relevant here is to add a little more stability to the water chemistry. Will "doubling" the water volume to 10 gallons offer me enough stability to make the upgrade worth the effort?
Before people start chiming in about going much larger: that is not an option. First, I just prefer pico/nano tanks; it's a prefernce. Second, I live in an apartment in downtown Houston and need to be mobile because I move around a lot. I know people will want to argue this point but I only want to know if ten gallons will increase water stabulity enough to make this specific upgrade worth the time.
Any thoughts on the IM10 or equivalent AIO systems is also appreciated.