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First off, Turface and Soilmaster are two different products made by competing companies. Both are clay gravel. APs substrate could be very much like either one.
I think Dinos experience here shows that there is not one magic fertilizer product. You need to know specifically what nutrients it provides. There are macro nutrients and minor nutrients. Most of these types of products are mostly minor trace minerals with perhaps a very small amount of macros. Plants must have BOTH macros and minerals. Flourite incidently only provides the trace mineral iron and nothing else.
Balanced with nutrients, is light and C02. If any one of these things is lacking, macros, trace, light, c02, it can cause your plants to crash. Any type of fertilizer tablet or pellet is a good idea, but by itself may not be enough depending on what type of nutrients it provides.
The info on their web site does not provide a guranteed analysis, which breaks down each ingridient to the percentage. Its lists the nutrients but not in the percentage. It lists some macros, but it could be less than 2 % or 20 % who knows. It is also a rather odd mix of nutrients. It does not include all the needed trace minerals, and shows two forms of chemical nitrogen. It does include some macros, but not all, and seems strangely high in calcium and carbonate.
Nesaea red by the way needs tons of light and grows extremely slowly
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