Plant Fertilizers

[SuperColey1]

What sort of daily or weekly dosage levels would you advise for use in a 120 litre aquarium containing the plants that I've described above?

For the plants above dose nothing. The fish waste and food is more than enough for 3 plants fast growing or slow growing. Radar is giving you good advice but as we are in planted we are assuming (maybe incorrectly it seems) that you are just starting out with the intention of planting more.

If you are not wanting to add more (and by that we mean loads) then don't dose anything.

I don't mean to sound antagonising but from your profile you are a law student. That means lots of reading, lots of research, lots of learning. You need to do the same here. Get to understand what a planted tank is. What it means. How it works.

At the moment it seems you are rushing through your research and have reached the wrong assumptions.

Yes technically with plants in the tank it is a planted tank but by no means can it follow advice for a planted tank with what you have.

AC

 

[mark4785]

What sort of daily or weekly dosage levels would you advise for use in a 120 litre aquarium containing the plants that I've described above?

For the plants above dose nothing. The fish waste and food is more than enough for 3 plants fast growing or slow growing. Radar is giving you good advice but as we are in planted we are assuming (maybe incorrectly it seems) that you are just starting out with the intention of planting more.

If you are not wanting to add more (and by that we mean loads) then don't dose anything.

I don't mean to sound antagonising but from your profile you are a law student. That means lots of reading, lots of research, lots of learning. You need to do the same here. Get to understand what a planted tank is. What it means. How it works.

At the moment it seems you are rushing through your research and have reached the wrong assumptions.

Yes technically with plants in the tank it is a planted tank but by no means can it follow advice for a planted tank with what you have.

AC

Trust me on this, learning law is very different to understanding ecosystems. If I present a law-related question to a range of people I'm likely to receive the same answer from each person because they will know, from referring to case law, or statute, what the exact answer is. Ask a question about plants, and it seems I don't learn anything because I just receive a multitude of differing opinions seemingly with all equal merits.

I don't know what is being assumed, all I know is I've never said I'd be adding anymore plants. I created this thread to ask what is needed to be done to keep the plants that I have healthy..

 

[SuperColey1]

I don't know what is being assumed, all I know is I've never said I'd be adding anymore plants. I created this thread to ask what is needed to be done to keep the plants that I have healthy..

And I have answered you taking your statement. Notice the quote I have answered what you should dose for a tank with 3 plants in it.

Law is very similar. If the client doesn't give you the complete info then you cannot expect to be able to win when other things crop up.

Similarly if the solicitor assumes something that is false then he may be at fault.

The problem here is that you are in the planted section and whilst technically speaking you are planted because you have plants. Your tank isn't planted as people in this section would look at the planted tank.

We are not professionals in this game we are hobbyists whether experienced or not. Therefore we assume that others in this section are after similar goals to us.

There are many people who as questions similar to yours. There are many that only have a few plants like you BUT there are few to zero that are intending only to keep a few plants. Those people tend not to have problems with the plants or just give up on them

So please don't blame us. We are trying to help but of course we are only amateurs in this assuming our goals are similar to yours etc.

Anyways. I gave you the answer earlier. You don;t want to dose nutrients for your plants. Not enough plants to need it. Fish waste and left over food will contain more than enough for yours.

You most definately do not want to be pouring Gluteraldehyde (EasyCarbo/Excel) into your tank as their are not enough plants to consume it and as it ends with 'aldehyde' you can be sure it is pretty toxic stuff when used incorrectly or overdosed.

Hope that helps

AC

 

[mark4785]

I don't know what is being assumed, all I know is I've never said I'd be adding anymore plants. I created this thread to ask what is needed to be done to keep the plants that I have healthy..

And I have answered you taking your statement. Notice the quote I have answered what you should dose for a tank with 3 plants in it.

Law is very similar. If the client doesn't give you the complete info then you cannot expect to be able to win when other things crop up.

Similarly if the solicitor assumes something that is false then he may be at fault.

The problem here is that you are in the planted section and whilst technically speaking you are planted because you have plants. Your tank isn't planted as people in this section would look at the planted tank.

We are not professionals in this game we are hobbyists whether experienced or not. Therefore we assume that others in this section are after similar goals to us.

There are many people who as questions similar to yours. There are many that only have a few plants like you BUT there are few to zero that are intending only to keep a few plants. Those people tend not to have problems with the plants or just give up on them

So please don't blame us. We are trying to help but of course we are only amateurs in this assuming our goals are similar to yours etc.

Anyways. I gave you the answer earlier. You don;t want to dose nutrients for your plants. Not enough plants to need it. Fish waste and left over food will contain more than enough for yours.

You most definately do not want to be pouring Gluteraldehyde (EasyCarbo/Excel) into your tank as their are not enough plants to consume it and as it ends with 'aldehyde' you can be sure it is pretty toxic stuff when used incorrectly or overdosed.

Hope that helps

AC

Thanks a lot, and no, i'm not blaming you or anybody, I'm guess I'm just not used to taking in varied answers. For instance, right now, you are saying there is no need for liquid c02 and nutrients. Yesterday, I was told that I'd need to be dosing 50ml of liquid phosphate and substantial amounts of liquid nitrate per week.

The reason I'm not adding more plants is because there's no more room.

 

[SuperColey1]

Thanks a lot, and no, i'm not blaming you or anybody, I'm guess I'm just not used to taking in varied answers. For instance, right now, you are saying there is no need for liquid c02 and nutrients. Yesterday, I was told that I'd need to be dosing 50ml of liquid phosphate and substantial amounts of liquid nitrate per week.[/qupte]
They answered how much to add for your size tank not how many to add for the plants you had. It did however amaze me that only 1 post questioned adding things with only 3 plants in ti. Top marks there for three fingers

The reason I'm not adding more plants is because there's no more room.

Your not adding more plants because you don't want more, not because there isn't any more room. Plants are not walls, they move, the fish move through them. There's nothing wrong with not wanting more and nothing wrong with only having a few. Its your tank and for you to do what you want with it.

These still have room for more in them, just don't need any more. lol:

Stop dosing and enjoy the tank. the fish will enjoy it more without the additives

AC

 

[PDSimon]

NOoooooooooooooooooooooo Add more plants

 

[RadaR]

Already explained why.
Was going as per instructions from Easylife, unknowning that those were weekly dosings. Presumed you were going to plant more therefore with the carbon addition, you would have needed a source of macros. Move on.

 

[mark4785]

Thanks a lot, and no, i'm not blaming you or anybody, I'm guess I'm just not used to taking in varied answers. For instance, right now, you are saying there is no need for liquid c02 and nutrients. Yesterday, I was told that I'd need to be dosing 50ml of liquid phosphate and substantial amounts of liquid nitrate per week.[/qupte]
They answered how much to add for your size tank not how many to add for the plants you had. It did however amaze me that only 1 post questioned adding things with only 3 plants in ti. Top marks there for three fingers

The reason I'm not adding more plants is because there's no more room.

Your not adding more plants because you don't want more, not because there isn't any more room. Plants are not walls, they move, the fish move through them. There's nothing wrong with not wanting more and nothing wrong with only having a few. Its your tank and for you to do what you want with it.

These still have room for more in them, just don't need any more. lol:

Stop dosing and enjoy the tank. the fish will enjoy it more without the additives

AC

No, I'm not going to add more plants because the only space left for such things is shaded too much under ornaments so I wouldn't be confident that they would grow.

True, plants are not walls, and yes they do move, but I don't like to uproot what I have in order to accomodate more plants.

 

[SuperColey1]

lol. I must stop biting

There aren't that many plants in the substrate of the first and second scapes there They are 'on' the 'ornaments. Its a bit of a 'deception'. The plants are on wood and there are huge amounts of hollows that the fish can do what they want in. They are just hidden from view so it looks like it is a huge mass of plants.

Hers a pic of the first 1 without the ornaments in and by definition without the plants that were on the ornaments (The ornaments were of course wood and rocks) I'd guess this only 20% substrate planted:

And here are the plants on the wood. this is the remaining 90% :

Anyways. Good luck to you.

AC