Plants / Nutrients

[Spooky76]

Hi folks, hope your all well.

I think my tanks ok now, got the new lighting in 2 x T5 21" tubes

I was looking at my plants last night, and then did some reading up, am I right in thinking you should give your plants some food ? I only have mine planted in gravel, not any soil / small substrate. They seem to do ok, but most done seem to flourish. I know interpet No2 Plant boost is phosphate and Nitrate free, so was thinking of getting some of that.

Are there any down sides to it ? Is it a waste of money ?

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[nry]

Not sure of your setup beyond the new lighting, but many would suggest that Tropica Plant Nutrition (or Nutrition + if you have low numbers of fish) is a superb all-round liquid fertiliser.

 

[arif_93]

i use nutrafin plant gro and interpet flora boost 1ml a day of either 1 usually i interchange every day.
i get really good results.
but ive heard that seachem flourish excel is supposed to be the best and it also has a carbon souce for the plants

 

[nry]

Flourish Excel is purely an organic carbon source, it is not an all-round fertiliser, it needs to be used in conjunction with something else like Tropica Plant Nutrition or Seachem Flourish.

 

[arif_93]

o i heard differently but thankis for clearing that up /\ /\

 

[nry]

Differently...well, I'm only going by the SeaChem instructions on the back of the two bottles I have, I could be wrong.