Couple Of Questions About Tropica

[demonmagus]

Hi, I have around 2wpg and will use the tropica substrate in my tank, my questions are



can I use sand on top?


and does anyone here use the ferts?



thanks

 

[zig]

Might be better to use gravel I imagine sand would get very messed up quite quickly, haven't used the ferts but I believe they are excellent so would have no doubts on that score.

 

[Themuleous]

If by ferts you mean the plant nutrition, its widely regarded as the best you can get.

Sam

 

[Andrew Tan]

Gravel would be better than sand, it won't mix as easily. I'm using the substrate and ferts in my nano with some good results.

 

[mlawson]

I've heard the substrate is very good, and like the others, I would advise you to use gravel rather than sand.

 

[Castellop123]

Cheers...

 

[George Farmer]

1-3mm lime-free gravel would be best over a 1cm layer of Tropica Plant Substrate.

The Tropica AquaCare Nutrition liquid is excellent. I won't use any other trace. If you have low fish load, and good growth with lots of plants then you may be better with Nutrition+ as this also contains NP, that may go deficient otherwise.

Good luck.

 

[demonmagus]

awesome, thanks, a trip to aqua essentials is in order then

 

[SuperColey1]

I've been using Plant Nutriotion (Not +) for about 3 weeks now in my heavy heavy fish load tank, and before I had lots of Algae growing on the leaves of my amazon swords (under low light). Since using Tropica PL it has started to disappear. although slowly.

A+ (And the plants are growing fast fast fast (again under low light) especially Ludwigia Repens, which almost doubles in size each week, and I have to keep pruning it back.

Andy