plant addatives

[Matthew187]

What do you use as addatives for your plant tanks? I just have basic aquarium gravel and no co2. I heard excel works good but hurts fish. I have a 55g planted and was looking to do a mild aquascape type tank. I have good lighting but want addatives to keep my plants healthy.

 

[BHead707]

who told you that excel hurts fish? just curious

 

[Matthew187]

Alot of people on amazon review. I know its not a reliable source but only thing i have gotten any feed back on. I am new to planted tanks.

 

[BHead707]

i myself use flourish excel and i know people on here use it as well. i dont think ive ever seen anything on it not being healthy for fish..

and thats just going off what I remember reading


also what type of lighting do you have?

 

[Matthew187]

Alot of review said it killed fish so i figured id check into it. I have two t5 set ups with one 6700k two 10000k and one actinic bulb. Is there any other products that work good with or instead of excel.

 

[aqua_chem]

As far as sources of information goes, I would rank Amazon reviews somewhere between LFS employees and "Ask Yahoo". Excel might hurt some inverts at 2-3x the recommended dose, but I've never heard of it affecting fish.


Although with that kind of light, you should probably look into pressurized CO2.

 

[Matthew187]

Is there a brand co2 system you would recommend?