Not like I should noAre you getting much plant growth ?
Not like I should noAre you getting much plant growth ?
Researching dry ferts, this is complicated as (beep) lol, I wish this was a easy as cooking as I am fabulous cook lol.
Like what do I need to get, I know i need the spoons, how much if this and that do I add ohhh muah gawd.
Haha. You're like chemistry I never had. I'm definitely going to you if I ever set up a high tech tank.
I use thrive, why do you recommend watered down comprehensive? Just curious as my plant growth went from Null to boom by switching to thrive.Macro nutrients:
KNO3 - Mainly for NO3, it adds some K. My low tech tank I target a 10ppm NO3 dose after each weekly water change. My high tech tank I target a 20ppm dose after each weekly water change.
KH2PO4 - Mainly for PO4, it adds some K. I target a 5ppm PO4 dose after each weekly water change in my high tech tank. 3ppm dose after a water change in my low tech tank.
K2SO4 (optionaly) - Mainly for K. Optional because if you use Seachem Equilibrium then you are getting enough K and do NOT need to supplement with K2SO4. I target a 23ppm dose after each weekly water change in my high tech tank. 10ppm dose after a weekly water change in my low tech tank.
Micro nutrients:
Because your pH is 7.4 I would strongly recommended either using Flourish Comprehensive, or CSM+B with additional Iron sources.
If you choose to use CSM+B, you may want to supplement Iron with either Flourish Iron (ferrous gluconate) or Iron Chelate 11% (DTPA). This is because the iron in CSM+B is only stable up to a pH of 6.5. From 6.5 - 7.5 DTPA iron is stable. Flourish Iron can be used with CSM+B to have an available iron source present with CSM+B. I would break the weekly dose into 7, and dose once per day. My high tech tank currently targets a 0.1ppm Fe dose from CSM+B once per day, after the pH has dropped to 6.6 - 6.7. My low tech tank gets a daily dose of CSM+B targeting 0.03ppm Fe. I will soon be adding additional Flourish Iron onto the tank and targeting 0.1ppm Fe daily, But I'm fairly sure there is a decent Iron level in my tap water to begin with.
For gH (if you choose to not use Seachem Equilibrium)
CaSO4- For Ca. I target 30 - 40 ppm Ca in my water.
MgSO4- For Mg. I target 10ppm in my water.
High or low tech.
The words in bold are the compounds to look into for dry ferts or fert supplements.
I use thrive, why do you recommend watered down comprehensive? Just curious as my plant growth went from Null to boom by switching to thrive.
So all those in bold I would have to get dry and measure them out with the special spoons then mix in to RO water and add to the tank, I haven't had much time to research everything but I understand those are the dry ferts that I need to look Into right?
I had to cut back my Amazon a bunch while I was doing my water change I noticed there was a lot of holes in the leaves, I added 15 ml thrive 0.75 tablespoon of equilibrium, and a root tab by the Amazon, I swear this tank is more if a pain than it is enjoyableComprehensive is NOT an all in one fertilizer like Thrive is.
Comprehensive would be used for Micro nutrients ONLY. Thrive is for macro and micro nutrients.
Comprehensive has an Fe source that would be more available to your plants at your pH then what's in CSM+B.
So, N-P-K would come from KNO3, KH2PO4, K2SO4/Equilibrium and the Micros would come from comprehensive.
So, to target a 0.1ppm Fe daily dose, you would have to add 5.3ml per day to your tank, assuming 45 gallons actual water.
Or, you can use CSM+B and add 261 milligrams daily to reach 0.1ppm Fe. But, this Fe is not available to your plants, so you will have to supplement with DTPA 11% Iron or Flourish Iron and target 0.1ppm daily.
This is all a modified version of EI (you already perform 50% weekly water changes)
I would buy a $20 scale from amazon instead of measuring spoons. Way more accurate and practical than using spoons.
Yeah I was dosing 6 I didn't want to just jump to 25, I over doubled my dose + added 3/4 tablespoon if equilibrium and 2 root tabs for my Amazon / crypt spiralisPotassium deficiency is my guess.
15ml Thrive will yield you:
12ppm NO3
2ppm PO4
8ppm K
Plus the K from Equilibrium. That should help. Watch the new growth, the old damaged plant growth will not heal.
Don't know if I did this rightPotassium deficiency is my guess.
15ml Thrive will yield you:
12ppm NO3
2ppm PO4
8ppm K
Plus the K from Equilibrium. That should help. Watch the new growth, the old damaged plant growth will not heal.
Don't know if I did this right
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Yeah I don't know either which is why it's frustrated, tapatalk still hasn't fixed my account and I can't log into aquarium advice because it show my user name is p0tluck94 lol, you also have a walstad tank I thought? I have gravel only, maybe I'm not pushing the light hard enough which is not allowing the plants to grow fast enough to out compete the algae, no idea but it's driving me nuts.Build up of organic waste/ammonia ( clogged filters, over feeding, poor maintenance )."
Interesting, I do all of the above and have 0 algae.” and my plants grow too.
I don’t even dose....
Ahh could of swore you went with a super thick multi layer substrate bed, no idea why mine isn't I don't over feed, I'm not over stocked, I do very thorough pwc's a week with plant trimming ever needed but the plants do not grow as fast as they should that's for sureTheres no soil. It’s not Walstad. Just no co2, ferts or water changes. It’s just super stable.
Ahh could of swore you went with a super thick multi layer substrate bed, no idea why mine isn't I don't over feed, I'm not over stocked, I do very thorough pwc's a week with plant trimming ever needed but the plants do not grow as fast as they should that's for sure
What I don't understand is I'm ocd about the tank, yes yours is different than mine as I dose you don't, I have to reset my parameters every week, I vac the surface of the substrate every week where I can get, the other places I use just the hose without the tube and swish around the top of the substrate to stir up the mulm and get a much as I can, can't do the gravel without the tube it sucks up the substrate lol, I've tried literally everything from light ferts, low light, med light, light at 100%, I always trim bad leaves, I don't over feed, my filters might be the issue as I added pre sponges because the filters were eating the plants but I'm not sure, but my filters are clean of organics I clean the sponges every 2 weeks in tank water, I added a 425 gph hydor wave maker for more flow, my parameters are perfect, granted my tank isn't full of fast growing plants which will keep the algae at bay but soon will be if I can figure out why the Wisteria grows slow, hopefully it was lack of ferts as I know it's not lack Of light UNLESS I'm running it to hard which is keeping everything low instead of reaching for the light, reason I say this is my pearl weed, it's not reaching, its staying low and spreading, Hopefully I don't have to dose this much ferts it will break the bank but I will go to dry just have to lean how to dose them.It’s just Eco complete. I guess our methods and ideas on how to keep an aquarium are vastly different.
Basically it all comes down to nutrient availability. You can dose whatever concentrations and ratios you like but due to oxidation and precipitation you will never truly know how much of any particular element is available at any one time chelated or not. In my experience, you end up a victim of your own dosing finding yourself having to increase amounts, trying different ratios and manufacturers of ferts until you stumble upon one that works for a while. For some people they manage to get this right. For a lot of people I know, very experienced aquascapers, they struggle, granted, they are not trying to grow run of the mill plants.