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Also, im ordering a complete water column fertilizer from Cory at aquarium co op! He has great plants and equipment and everything is as cheap or cheaper than amazon guaranteed! :thumb: https://www.aquariumcoop.com/collections/plant-supplies-1/products/easy-green-all-in-one-fertilizer

My mistake, the FloraMax being lava rock does not have a high CEC but has lots of small pores that can hold nutrients and such. Something more clay based like Eco-Complete or stratum would have a higher cec. Would one of those two be easier on my plants at planting than straight FloraMax? what's...

Didn’t know about osmacote! I’ve got some in my shed right now for the garden! I’m a crops soil and environmental science major at auburn and just rediscovered aquariums this year and I’m eating this stuff up [emoji1360] thanks for all the help!

With the Carib sea flora max, it is a lava rock based substrate that doesn’t have any nutrients but holds them well (high Cec) is there anything I could put down over the flora max that may be better to plant directly into? Maybe ada soul or stratum? FloraMax seems a bit course for me to plant a...

I’ll send more pics when I get home from studying! Thanks for the speedy response!

I have a 10 gallon planted tank with hygrophila and hornwort. It has been running for about 3 weeks now. I used Carib sea flora max substrate and added seachem flourish root tans throughout the substrate. I am running a nicrew classic led plus 15w 6500k. 72 par @ 12” All the plants seem to be...