Floyd R Turbo
Aquarium Advice Addict
I just was wondering if, in a planted tank like this:
if I should expect complete iron depletion withing 24 hours of dosage. I am using Flourish Iron (non-chelated) and I dosed with 5mL last night around 7 or 8pm, which brought the level to between 0.2 and 0.3, verified by check solution (which was 0.4). By 5pm it was back to 0. I picked up on this because every time I dose Iron and test a week later or whatever, it's 0, so I ran a little experiement, dose/test/24hr test.
I read that Asian Marshweed sucks up iron, and I have a lot of it and other plants. I haven't put any root tabs down lately, but my plants grow faster than I can sell them on craigslist so I'm not too worried about that, but my swords are suffering due to light blockage and probably lack of nutrients, even though I fert with comprehensive 5mL 2x week, excel 5mL daily, K 10mL 2x week. At least until I run out and switch to dry ferts.
if I should expect complete iron depletion withing 24 hours of dosage. I am using Flourish Iron (non-chelated) and I dosed with 5mL last night around 7 or 8pm, which brought the level to between 0.2 and 0.3, verified by check solution (which was 0.4). By 5pm it was back to 0. I picked up on this because every time I dose Iron and test a week later or whatever, it's 0, so I ran a little experiement, dose/test/24hr test.
I read that Asian Marshweed sucks up iron, and I have a lot of it and other plants. I haven't put any root tabs down lately, but my plants grow faster than I can sell them on craigslist so I'm not too worried about that, but my swords are suffering due to light blockage and probably lack of nutrients, even though I fert with comprehensive 5mL 2x week, excel 5mL daily, K 10mL 2x week. At least until I run out and switch to dry ferts.
