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I know people say to not fully clean your filters cause of beneficial bacteria and blah blah blah, but in this case, i would change out your filter cartridges and sponges. Because I am thinking if you have changed your water and the values are decreasing, you have something in your filter that...

Alright. I feel better that you agree that the mixing job and outcome of what i have done. Thank you for the advice and link as well. I am getting micro sword everywhere which is causing me to find a ton of old rot from the leaves through out the tank. Im going to have to do a major cut back...

Really? How much do you put in and how often do you dry fert your tank? Rotala butterfly says i have the correct amounts of fertilizers for a 500ml bottle however even after waiting 24 hours there is still a very thick layer of fertilizers on the bottom that isnt blending in. Is this normal? Do...

Hey experts on planted tanks and dry ferts. I have bought and mixed together my first macro and micro set of ferts from green leaf aquariums. I want to shoe you my notes of what to mix in and how i did it. I used the rotala butterfly website to try to find out what amount of each fertilizer to...

Will do. Ill get this items ordered today and start figuring out correct calculations. I think i will just finish dosing with Thrive+ (just to fonish the bottle) and then mix these and start that route. I really hope this helps heal my Ca and Mg problem i have going.

Alright. Ill get that. I am using RO water. The CaSO4 and DTPA iron i can get on on GLA but the KHCO3 is on amazon and that is for the kH right?

Oops.. Here is pic of list

Here is a pic of what is included in the pack, i would just need calcium for RO water. They also have a gH booster. Any thoughts on that? Or does that have too much filler to?

Hey deadpool, ZxC, Sorry for kinda falling off the grid. Been a seriously crazy week and a half. Multiple hospital visits involved. So research and this has kinda been put on the back burner. However things to be calming down now so i will be purchasing KNO3, KH2PO4, AND K2SO4 as well as a CSM+B...

So does CaSO4 disolve better than CaNO3? Or does it really just depend on what i am trying to achive? I have a light fish load so nitrogen is always on the low side when i check. Just wondering what is better to use. Also i have been looking into dry ferts from green leaf and noticed that if i...

What is the difference between calcium sulfate and calcium nitrate? Does it matter which one you use? Is one better than the other? Thanks

Hey ZxC, got a quick question for you. Do you use the PPS method or the EI method of doseing?

Awesome. Thanks so much for the links. So all i need to do is to add this to my RO water before i do water changes? Then still add thrive+ to the tank like i normally am? Do i do anything to control the pH in the treated water? Or will this cause the ph to come out the same every time?

Also, looking into the dry ferts that you are mentioning, there are a ton of different kinds and brands to choose from. So could you possibly attach a pic of the ferts you use? Or the kind you are mentioning that i should get?

For kH, target 0.5 degrees using KHCO3 (can buy from GLA / amazon). This will add way less K than Equilibrium. Also this qoute kinda confused me.. I want to only have 0.5 kH? My first thought was "That sounds really low!". So I have a feeling im reading that wrong.