epiphysis
Aquarium Advice Freak
I've recently starting to get some algae problems in my tanks. But before I try to take evasive action I'm going to give dry-ferts a try. But let me explain my setup first.
29gal fully stocked. Actually I think its over-stocked. 2 water changes a week, 20% and 50-60%. Use to dose Tetra Plantamin but as of the last week I started with Seachem Flourish and Excel. Currently underdosing on both just to phase the Tetramin out and the Flourish in, and to see how the plants adapt to the Excel. Also have root tabs that I got from a nursery containing 5:1:5 NPK. Set-up is about 3 months old. Light is 30W T8. In other words very low tech.
Plants include: Vallisneria nana (loads of it), Anubias Petit, Java Fern 'Windelov' and Alternanthera (was and impulse buy, don't think its going to make it).
After about 6 weeks I started to notice small green spots on the glass. GSA, but nothing serious. A light scraping removed most of it. But this last week I noticed some blue-green algae on the substrate and its spreading. So I assume that there is a nutrient imbalance. And from there I started my research.
Worked out the following mixture for dry ferts, but before I go ahead and put it in, just want to hear some opinions.
In 500ml distilled water I'll mix the following:
50 g Potasium Nitrate (Saltpeter)
25 ml Lenolax (Fleet Enema)
100 g Potasium Chloride (No-Salt)
And a 1ml of dechlor just to take out some of the chloride.
10ml dose of this will give me 6,13ppm NO3, 0.66ppm PO4 and 14.36ppm K.
So what do you guys think, should I maybe up the Lenolax to up the Phos? Or is there anything else I can do to improve my recipe?
Thanks in advance
29gal fully stocked. Actually I think its over-stocked. 2 water changes a week, 20% and 50-60%. Use to dose Tetra Plantamin but as of the last week I started with Seachem Flourish and Excel. Currently underdosing on both just to phase the Tetramin out and the Flourish in, and to see how the plants adapt to the Excel. Also have root tabs that I got from a nursery containing 5:1:5 NPK. Set-up is about 3 months old. Light is 30W T8. In other words very low tech.
Plants include: Vallisneria nana (loads of it), Anubias Petit, Java Fern 'Windelov' and Alternanthera (was and impulse buy, don't think its going to make it).
After about 6 weeks I started to notice small green spots on the glass. GSA, but nothing serious. A light scraping removed most of it. But this last week I noticed some blue-green algae on the substrate and its spreading. So I assume that there is a nutrient imbalance. And from there I started my research.
Worked out the following mixture for dry ferts, but before I go ahead and put it in, just want to hear some opinions.
In 500ml distilled water I'll mix the following:
50 g Potasium Nitrate (Saltpeter)
25 ml Lenolax (Fleet Enema)
100 g Potasium Chloride (No-Salt)
And a 1ml of dechlor just to take out some of the chloride.
10ml dose of this will give me 6,13ppm NO3, 0.66ppm PO4 and 14.36ppm K.
So what do you guys think, should I maybe up the Lenolax to up the Phos? Or is there anything else I can do to improve my recipe?
Thanks in advance