Just wondering, because in my nano planted was going to use Flourish Trace and Excel but i don't want my inverts to die.
Will Flourish Excel and Flourish Trace kill snails and shrimp?
- Thread starter ILOVEBETTAS
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I don't know what the difference between Flourish Trace and normal (just) Flourish is, but I use Excel and plain Flourish in my tanks with ghost shrimp, cherry shrimp, red ramshorn snails, pond snails (wish they'd die), and apple snails (brigs). No deaths. I've been using these for several months, and for the past couple weeks have been tripling the Excel dose to fight beard algae. Still no deaths.
Plain ole Flourish is trace nutrients, supposedly, so I'm unsure of the difference in ingredients, but they must not be the same.
Plain ole Flourish is trace nutrients, supposedly, so I'm unsure of the difference in ingredients, but they must not be the same.
Flourish contains:
Guaranteed Analysis
Total Nitrogen 0.07%
Available Phosphate ( P2O5) 0.01%
Soluble Potash 0.37%
Calcium (Ca) 0.14%
Magnesium (Mg) 0.11%
Sulfur (S) 0.2773%
Boron (B) 0.009%
Chlorine (Cl) 1.15%
Cobalt (Co) 0.0004%
Copper (Cu) 0.0001%
Iron (Fe) 0.32%
Manganese (Mn) 0.0118%
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.0009%
Sodium (Na) 0.13%
Zinc (Zn) 0.0007%
Flourish Trace contains:
Boron (B) 0.0028%
Cobalt (Co) 0.00003%
Copper Cu) 0.0032%
0.0032% Water Soluble Copper (Cu)
Manganese (Mn) 0.0085%
0.0085% Water Soluble Manganese(Mn)
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.0003%
Zinc (Zn) 0.0169%
0.0169% Water Soluble Zinc (Zn)
Rubidium (Rh) 0.000008%
Nickel (Ni) 0.000003%
Vanadium (V) 0.000002%
Derived from: copper sulfate, cobalt sulfate, manganese sulfate, boric acid, sodium molybdate, zinc sulfate, rubidium chloride, nickel chloride, vanadium sulfate
Guaranteed Analysis
Total Nitrogen 0.07%
Available Phosphate ( P2O5) 0.01%
Soluble Potash 0.37%
Calcium (Ca) 0.14%
Magnesium (Mg) 0.11%
Sulfur (S) 0.2773%
Boron (B) 0.009%
Chlorine (Cl) 1.15%
Cobalt (Co) 0.0004%
Copper (Cu) 0.0001%
Iron (Fe) 0.32%
Manganese (Mn) 0.0118%
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.0009%
Sodium (Na) 0.13%
Zinc (Zn) 0.0007%
Flourish Trace contains:
Boron (B) 0.0028%
Cobalt (Co) 0.00003%
Copper Cu) 0.0032%
0.0032% Water Soluble Copper (Cu)
Manganese (Mn) 0.0085%
0.0085% Water Soluble Manganese(Mn)
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.0003%
Zinc (Zn) 0.0169%
0.0169% Water Soluble Zinc (Zn)
Rubidium (Rh) 0.000008%
Nickel (Ni) 0.000003%
Vanadium (V) 0.000002%
Derived from: copper sulfate, cobalt sulfate, manganese sulfate, boric acid, sodium molybdate, zinc sulfate, rubidium chloride, nickel chloride, vanadium sulfate
mellowvision
Seafood Lover
I use excel and haven't lost a shrimp... haven't used trace... copper is the real killer, not that either appear to have very much... but who know's how fast it builds up in the tank.
I've heard from many people that copper kills inverts. Or do you just mean that that amount of it won't kill inverts?
that amount is nowhere near enough to do any harm. besides, your plants take it up. that's probably why it was included in the flourish, don't you think?
I've used ferts with no probs in my rcs tanks u should b fine as long as u have enough plants to use up the ferts.