Seachem Journal 2nd December

[00mitomk]

Ok so ive been moaning about my tank for a while now and have taken all the recommendations to buy Seachem fertilizers.

so here is what i have purchased...

so ive decided to show people what these fertilizers are going to do because i think it would be some good information for people like me who thought he was just unlucky

So fingers crossed it all works

Here is a pic of what the tank looks with first day ferts i will try and post as often as i can and please excuse the tank ive been trying hard but the plants keep dying and im going to have a tidy up as this journal goes on

Miles

 

[wei0204]

Will wait to see how will the plants turn out soon...

 

[nry]

I've finally ordered some Flourish to replace my Tetra Plantamin: I haven't gone for the full set though, am curious if I need to as yet. I'll be watching this thread to see your results!

 

[cleekdaFish]

wow wid all those ferts u can open up a plant store

I also use flourish and it works,,, plants do grow faster

 

[Jen]

Seachem is a great line of Ferts. I used them exclusively before I started making my own from powder.
You should see great results from them.

Do you have co2 on the tank? They also make a Carbon suppliment that works nicely.

 

[nry]

I am using Flourish Excel, seems to be working well, I dose CO2 but not in the best way possible (Tetra Optimat system, a bit naff really!). If nothing else it has certainly knocked the algae down nicely!

 

[Underwurlde]

Being extremely nosey, can you please tell me...

What quantities are you dosing your ferts in & when?
How often do you change water & if so, how much?
What is the size of your tank?
What substrate do you use?
What lighting have you got?

GL & TIA

Andy

 

[00mitomk]

Being extremely nosey, can you please tell me...

What quantities are you dosing your ferts in & when?
How often do you change water & if so, how much?
What is the size of your tank?
What substrate do you use?
What lighting have you got?

GL & TIA

Andy

Tiny of each as has dosage for larger tanks im talking like 2ml probably
Water change once a week 25% on a Sunday
96l
Fine black gravel
50watts
and yes i do have a c02 nutrafin setup

miles

and you arnt being nosey at all lol

 

[Underwurlde]

So you're adopting EI then??? Curious you see because I am going to try this...

Got my ferts (as raw powder). Just got to sort a substrate out & take care of a rather annoying snail problem that unfortunately can't be cured with a shotgun.

Andy

 

[00mitomk]

what is EI m8 ???

miles

 

[Underwurlde]

Sorry dude. Estimative Index.
It seemed to me like you were kind of doing this.

It is a relatively new technique by a guy called Tom Barr.

After I read this, it was kind of like 'that makes sense':
http/www.barrreport.com/estimative-index...-test-kits.html
(a bit repetitive and trumpet blowing, but good stuff none the less).

Andy

 

[00mitomk]

yea that is kinda what im doing because all i can see at the mo is my plants need ferts so im just doing that until they go green and then keeping it stable

miles

 

[00mitomk]

ok so now we are on day 2

and here is a picture, im trying to take them at about the same time ish as in just before i go to work lol

ok so not much change buy hey got to keep up with my updates lol


M i L e S

 

[00mitomk]

Ok so now we are on day three i cant see much difference yet but hey here we go lol

hope i do get a dramatic difference soon lol

miles

 

[nry]

What I pick up from the pictures is that you seem to have a lot of the water surface covered with plants...unless I am seeing things wrong?

Thinning out the surface cover will really help as the light will be able to get down to the other plants. Other than that, I would expect things to take around 2 weeks before you may notice any difference.