Thinking About Setting Up A Diy Dosing System

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I'm away from my tank a fair amount and can only be guaranteed to see it 2 or 3 times a week max. This makes it very tricky to keep my nutrients up.

I run 2 x 24w T5s over a 90 litre tank and inject proper CO2.

I'm going to get a submersible pump and a digital timer and use a 2 litre container to hold a the ferts sollution. The idea is the pump will come on for 1 minute a day and add a dose of ferts to the tank.

I'm just trying to decide how best to dose and what recipie to use.

I was thinking about making up version 3 of this - http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/allinone.htm

Then adding 1ml for every days worth of liquid in my fert reservoir.

Do you think that these levels of ferts will be sufficient - the other option is to try and do proper EI by using 2 separate auto dosing setups. In the interest of keeping it as simple as possible I'd like to avoid the extra complexity.

Thought?
 
The recipe is sound so it should work so long as the dilution is correct for your timings :)
 

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