How much seachem?

Toro Driver

Toro Driver

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It has been a long time since I posted a question. I usually read until I get my answere. I have been fighting the algae fight and think I have finally gained the upper ground. I know my tank is not considered heavily planted but I add plants as I find the ones I like.

It is a fifty five gallon
PH 6.8
KH 6
GH ? We have a water softner so I quit testing.
Temp 75-79 depending on how late it is
12 hrs of 2.18 wpg of regular flourescant
And DIY CO2 is injected

I have been adding 2 ml of seachem every other day and change the water once a week. My kh is artificialy low due to a 2/3 RO to 1/3 tap water mix. I don't dose with anything else right now because I can't test for it. (Iron, Nitrates, etc..)

Any way is that enough ferts or to much? :confused:

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SeaChem makes many liquid fertilizer products, so be more specific on which one you are using...

Here's a link to some of their products: SeaChem Online
 
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Something like SeaChem's Flourish is for micros… you'd still need to do some macros. If you're talking about Excel, its a carbon supplement and you'd still need macros and micros.

I'm fairly heavily planted (not super dense, but a planted tank, not a tank with some plants). I have just a little bit more light than you (2.4 wpg). I like Tom Barr's reset technique.

I dose a little bit of phosphate, some nitrates, and some potassium, all DIY (Fleet Enema, Spectracide Stump Remover, and NuSalt) once a week at the water change along with some Flourish Iron. Before I switched to pressurized I dosed Excel more or less daily (pressurized, IMHO and in my case, was worth every penny). I use Flourish at the water change and once again at midweek. No troubles…

HTH
 
Sorry-it is flourish. Another question. I notice Iron is a major player. Water here in Minnesota is so hard sprinklers turn walls and fences orange. I'm assuming that without testing that there should be plenty of Iron in our water.

Any thoughts.
 
I'm assuming that without testing that there should be plenty of Iron in our water
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A simple iron test will tell you- you know what they say about assuming.
Now whether or not that iron is in an assimilable form is a question for an aquarist more chemisty oriented than me!
 
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