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DSR
05-07-2009, 3:44 PM
I am hoping to get a good idea on what to add to my water to help my plants do a bit better. I am using Flourish (regular) twice a week and also using a DIY co2 kit. The plants I have so far are:

Kambomba (sp)
Money wort
Hornwort
2 swords
2 java ferns
dwarf hairgrass (three clumps... it is starting to spread)
moss ball
java moss
peacock moss
another type of fern
and some plant that is red
two large onion plants

They are all doing well. I took out all the hornwort as it was creating a huge mess. I have 65 watts over a 29 gallon acrylic tank.

What should I be adding to supplment the plants that isn't in the flourish.

live stock includes
blue gourami
flame gourami
approximately 102 kribs
4 zebra danio
4 cory
5 platy

(the kribs,except for 2, are all newly hatched fry... still trying to figure out what to do with them... my tank is not going to be able to handle raising that many fry).

DSR
05-11-2009, 12:28 PM
Bump... I added some root tabs to the tank, but would like to go ahead and start supplementing so my plants will fill in a bit more.

phanmc
05-11-2009, 3:59 PM
half a tspn of KNO3 for nitrates and potassium
1/8th a tspn of KH2PO4 for phosphates
twice a week like the Flourish

2tspn of a GH booster after water change unless you have hard water, for magnesium and calcium.