Super_Blueberry
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I saw some Seachem Flourish root tabs today. Anyone here use them? Thoughts?
Seachem Flourish tabs
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Bottomfeeder88
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After a few weeks of sticking them under your swords they go boom. Well mine did anyway.
Gish
Aquarium Advice Freak
i haven't tried the tablets. i was perusing amazon.com and the seachem flourish solutions have rave reviews.
what do you mean by your swords went boom? boom - like they rocketed out of the tank because they grew or boom - like they dropped dead?
what do you mean by your swords went boom? boom - like they rocketed out of the tank because they grew or boom - like they dropped dead?
Bottomfeeder88
Aquarium Advice Freak
Tank is >20" tall and my melons, rubin, and red flame swords want from 6" to near touching air in roughly two months. Also have to take into consideration I have high light.
I don't like using root tabs, found they were a waste of money. I would just put a good plant substrate down, even just around individual plants. I did this after the fact and plants took off. Never had to worry about sticking tabs everywhere. Why stick tabs all the time when a good substrate will go a lot further. My opinion tho.
Gish
Aquarium Advice Freak
mohican, which substrate would you recommend?
jetajockey
come get me tang police!
If you go with a soil based substrate it actually takes a really long time to expend all of the ferts in it. It's like one giant root tab.
Coursair
Aquarium Advice Addict
jetajockey said:
Yes, but if you move plants around much, isnt it also messy and you may get algae blooms ?
If you do use Organic Potting Soil or MTS, you need a sand cap.
jetajockey
come get me tang police!
You could have the same issue with a root tab filled tank. I'm general its not good to uproot established root feeders. And definitely need a cap over soil, although the clay addition to mts helps serve as a flocculant.
I don't do the potting soil method, but i know with MTS that if you were to start turning over the soil for some reason it would make for a cloudy tank. It eventually settles, but I could see the potential for an algae bloom if that happened, although I've not seen it in the tanks that I've had to uproot and rearrange.
DIY root tabs, either osmocote or if you are feeling adventurous, mixing your own, work quite well and are much simpler than a substrate change. One downside to root tabs is if you uproot something, you may get a large red spot on the substrate or a red cloud in the tank. Or if you are using osmocote you'll end up with little yellowish spheres everywhere.
I don't do the potting soil method, but i know with MTS that if you were to start turning over the soil for some reason it would make for a cloudy tank. It eventually settles, but I could see the potential for an algae bloom if that happened, although I've not seen it in the tanks that I've had to uproot and rearrange.
DIY root tabs, either osmocote or if you are feeling adventurous, mixing your own, work quite well and are much simpler than a substrate change. One downside to root tabs is if you uproot something, you may get a large red spot on the substrate or a red cloud in the tank. Or if you are using osmocote you'll end up with little yellowish spheres everywhere.
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Coursair
Aquarium Advice Addict
I did have to rebury a few beads of Osmocote Plus when I moved some Chain Swords.
Bottomfeeder88
Aquarium Advice Freak
Osmocote work the same way 'sept in bead form?
Coursair
Aquarium Advice Addict
Osmocote Plus is a slow release Fert. I got mine as DIY in gel caps.
