View Full Version : Plantex=Flourish?
Timmain42
03-23-2004, 10:10 AM
I've been looking thru the ingredients list on both Flourish and Plantex... If I dose Plantex+B, would I need to continue dosing Flourish?
djlen
03-23-2004, 10:21 AM
No. They are comparable in content. I believe the Plantex gives 9% Fe and the Flourish 7%.
Len
Timmain42
03-23-2004, 11:34 AM
Free! I am FREE of Seachem's corporate teat!
Woohoo!
Starry
03-23-2004, 8:07 PM
Originally posted by Timmain42
Free! I am FREE of Seachem's corporate teat!
Woohoo!
Just curious, what do you have against Seachem? What is so bad about them that Plantex is better?
Timmain42
03-23-2004, 10:22 PM
Nothing bad, Seachem's products work, it's just that they are very expensive compared to doing it "on the cheap."
For instance; Seachem Traces, Seachem Iron and Seachem Flourish (a daily cost of $0.40 for me) can all seemingly be replaced by Plantex CSM+B (at a cost of $0.008 per day).
Fleet Enema
Nu-Salt
Stump Remover
Epsom Salts
PlantexCSM+B
All relatively cheap, and from what I gather, that's the whole deal, right there.
Woohoo!
Unless you have the need for extra Fe, just plain old Flourish is all that is needed. It supplies Fe and most of the needed traces.
I've often heard Flourish Trace described as 'bathwater'. I wouldn't go as far as to say that, but it really is a watered down version of Flourish, and totally unnecessary if dosing Flourish.
Len
Timmain42
03-24-2004, 1:51 PM
Originally posted by djlen
Unless you have the need for extra Fe, just plain old Flourish is all that is needed. It supplies Fe and most of the needed traces.
I've often heard Flourish Trace described as 'bathwater'. I wouldn't go as far as to say that, but it really is a watered down version of Flourish, and totally unnecessary if dosing Flourish.
Len
And on top of that, Seachem recommends you dose 5x as much Trace as Flourish, twice a week.
Starry
03-24-2004, 2:38 PM
Originally posted by Timmain42
Nothing bad, Seachem's products work, it's just that they are very expensive compared to doing it "on the cheap."
Ahhh, I see, that makes sense. It just sounded like you had something against them personally, and that's rare with Seachem.