Ferts For My Plants

[chishnfips]

lol sorry cheesyfeet I should be more specific, I thought you had to constantly change the flow of C02 into your tank . So as not to poison the fish and still put enough in to benefit your plants. Or am I talking total bull stein. lol.

rsands that sounds mental, does it take alot of work lookiong after the tank? Do you have pics?

cheers chish

 

[nicklfire]

here's a good picture of it going on:

I got pressurized co2 and i never have to do anything, it's the lazy man's toy, i think i used a diy setup for about 2 weeks then i got so frustrated and bored i just went out and spent 400$ for the pressurized system. If you can afford it, it gives allot more consistency to your tank.

But if your starting out i'd suggest trying a diy setup just to understand what it does.

If you check my journal you'll see my pressurized co2 system

 

[SuperColey1]

Tropica Plant Nutrition isn't snake oil and is used by many of the top aquascapers.

Previously known as Tropica Master Gro you will see that Tom Barr and George give it high rating.

A lot of EI dosers use Tropica PN (not +) as their trace and not the CSM trace mix that people talk about.

It can also be used on low tech tanks with lower light as the main fertiliser dosed once a week.

As a guide
Tropica Plant Nutrition - For tank with a higher fishload
Tropica Plant Nutrition+ - For a tank with a lower fishload (The plus means it has NPK in it)

There are 'snake oils' in the market and loads of them at that. I would stay away from them and use a trusted higly rated fert like Seachem Flourish or TropicaPN

I use TropicaPN (£17 for 500ml) as my trace and dose:
6ml 3 days a week which means that it will last me for 27 weeks. This is on top of dosing Macros (KNO3, KH2PO4 and K2SO4) 3 days a week.

The recommended dosage for a low tech tank is 5ml per 50Ltrs weekly which means in my tank it would be 12.5ml weekly and last for 40 weeks and a low tech non EI tank wouldn't need Macros

Bargain for top quality if you ask me. Why dose dry traces or mix solutions when you can buy the best off the shelf at a cheap price)

As for yeast kits lasting 4 weeks. this is sales bulls**t. All the yeast kits will keep producing CO2 for weeks and weeks but not at the consistent level we are looking for as they slow down. The reason you change weekly or less is so that you are changing BEFORE it starts to slow down and so that you always keep the max consistency.

Don't believe the hype of these sales pitches.

andy

Andy

 

[BHornsey]

OK, point taken. Poor choice of phrase. But once you get down to it, it's all based on the same thing NPK & micros.
I'm quite staggered by what some seem to charge for their stuff. ADA springs to mind.
Pricewise, dry dosing is far cheaper. I get good results from AE's trace mix, it's £18 for 500g and it lasts me 18 months, using it for 4 tanks. Same for the NPK.

 

[SuperColey1]

ADA lives off its name and I wouldn't touch anything unless it came up dirt cheap on ebay or something like.

Tropica on the otherhand is very reasonably priced and has high ratings by all in the know so I just stick to that.

I do use KNO3, KH2PO4, and K2SO4 as macros though (I get it free from work so why not)

andy

ADA lives off its name and I wouldn't touch anything unless it came up dirt cheap on ebay or something like.

Tropica on the otherhand is very reasonably priced and has high ratings by all in the know so I just stick to that.

I do use KNO3, KH2PO4, and K2SO4 as macros though (I get it free from work so why not)

andy

 

[nry]

I also think ADA is expensive and Tropica is pretty good value.

I also think ADA is expensive and Tropica is pretty good value.