Api co2 booster v. Flourish excel!

[FreshwaterTropical]

What's better?
Will either kill my plants? I heard excel will kill some plants which are they?

 

[FreshwaterTropical]

My *plants
- anacharis
- money wort
- moss ball
- wisteria
- java fern
- micro sword
- banana plant
- green cabomba
- amazon sword
- java moss
- anubias nana
- Pygmy chain sword
- small sword

 

[blert]

There are some plants that are sensitive to the stuff yes. Anacharis, Val's and probably a few to a handful of others.

Some say they can be acclimated to it. Small doses to begin with and don't dose on top of them or directly into their personal flow. After a short while of that, if you see no melt, then you are probably safe to up the dosage a bit.

Wait for others to chime in before you start dosing though. The more info you have the better.

 

[jetajockey]

It's the same stuff as far as I know.

I've never had an issue with glutaraldehyde (active ingredient in excel) killing off anything, but then again I don't dose the maximum recommended amount either.

 

[aqua_chem]

It's the same stuff, no doubt. I think API's product is of a lower concentration than Excel is, I think 1.6% to 2.5%, meaning API's is more water than Seachem's product. So they'll kill off the same stuff.


That being said, I'm almost positive any glutaraldehyde product will kill your mossballs.

 

[aqua_chem]

I've never had an issue with glutaraldehyde (active ingredient in excel) killing off anything...

Except hair algae... now THAT's cathartic to watch.

 

[jetajockey]

I've never directly applied it to hair algae, but I've seen it turn BBA pink/white in short order.

I have dosed it irregularly in half doses in a tank with moss balls without any noticeable issue to the moss balls but then again they don't do much of anything anyway.

 

[FreshwaterTropical]

Ok thanks for all of your help!!!

 

[gallowchris]

I would go with seachem excel personally. As for issues with vals, i have a ton of cork screw vals in my 30g been dosing 3 times the directed amount. Only problem is the Vals are spreading like crazy! Turned down the daily dose now, just got co2

 

[richpowell1989]

I had all my anachris die from Excel but my vals were fine

 

[Discusapisto]

I've lost zero plants to excel and I dose daily. Usually the recommended dose if not more and no problems so far. Been doing this product for 3 years now.

 

[abrahamavelar]

same here also api co2 buster cost 3 dollars more than excel my vals are fine with excel just do it daily and you should be fine