What Fertilizer?

[d3tained]

Hello all!

So my lightning is at 2.6 Watts per gallon now and my C02 injection is running smoothly.

I currently use Seachem Florish and Seachem Excel fertilizers but heard that Leaf Zone is better as Florish dont contain any nitrigen.

Any body please help me choos ethe right stuff?

Seachem Florsih is a combination of Iron, Vitamens, ect..Excel is liquid carbon source.

I added more plants to the setup to see how newly introduced plants will find new condisions.

My Tape Grass have small bubbles all over the plant and I believe its a good thing.

So my question is what Fertilizer is the best according to people that have keeping plants very long?

THX ALL!!!

 

[MoreCoffee]

You're right there are lots of ferts and dosing regimes out there ...EI, Seachem, Kent, Leaf Zone, ADA, Tropica and many more.

I'm using the flourish range on my med-light (2 wpg) tank and now using the ADA ferts on my high-light tank (4 wpg), both seem to be suited to their task.

I'm not sure about the Leaf Zone products, but Seachem do a full Flourish range of ferts for planted tanks.
Apart from 'Flourish' and Flourish Excel' they do seperate products for nitrogen, phosphorous, iron, potassium and a trace mix. They also do a dosage plan.

http/www.seachem.com/products/planted.html

This gives you more control over what nutrients (N,P,K) you add and when in much the same way as EI does, rather than an 'All-In-One' mixture.

In the end, I suppose it comes down to your setup, what you want to achieve and personal choice !

 

[Themuleous]

IMHO ditch the seachem ones and get tropcia plant nutrition. Do you does NO3 or PO4 at the moment, if not you might find these are at low levels so adding one or both might be necessary, dry forms work well and are cheap.
Aim for a PO4 of 1-2ppm and NO3 of 10 to 30ppm.


Sam

 

[netcode]

EI with test kits is personally the best way to dose for major nutrients. It gives you complete control as to what your adding, and its also very cheap.

Do away with the organic carbon... your injecting carbon, no need.

Keep with the flourish for the trace elements..


just my 2 cents.