Sea Chem Plant Products

[andi872]

I can’t get these locally; does anyone know the best or preferred place to order these?

 

[theotheragentm]

I'm not sure what you're referring to specifically but online stores that people shop at a lot for fish products are the following.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/
http://www.marinedepot.com/

 

[Rex Grigg]

Which Seachem products are you looking for?

If you need Macro ferts then get some bulk dry nutrients. Much cheaper to work with. $20 can get you all the ferts you need for a 55 gallon tank for about 10 months.

 

[andi872]

what i really wanted to start with was some excet to get some more Co2 in the tank.

1. so the plants can better use the light i have.
2. to cut down on the chances of algae

 

[martialtheory]

by macro nutrients, is that trace minerals and other inorganic material?

 

[jmhart]

by macro nutrients, is that trace minerals and other inorganic material?

Macro nutriets are not trace nutrients. A well fertilized tank would have macro nutriets(K+, NO3, etc...) added and trace nutrients(B, S, Zn, etc...) both added.

 

[Penfan66]

Big Al's is reasonable if you're looking for Excel. It's about 7.50 for 500ml. But in the long run, it would be cheaper to use dry ferts and CO2.

http://www.bigalsonline.com/BigAlsUS/ctl3684/cp18480/si1380295/cl0/seachemflourishexcel250ml

 

[Rex Grigg]

Macros are NPK

Nitrate
Phosphate
Potassium

 

[Mgamer20o0]

Why would you want to use bulk nutrients. Well here are some numbers.

If you are dosing 60gallons of water with Flourish Potassium you would need 100 ml to get to 20 ppm.

If you are dosing 60 gallons of water with Flourish Phosphorus you would need to dose 48 ml to get to 1 ppm.

If you are dosing 60 gallons of water with Flourish Nitrogen you would need to dose 30 ml to get to 10 ppm.

Flourish Potassium is $6 mail order for 500 ml. So if you dose once a week that bottle will last you 5 weeks. Cost would $1.25 a week to dose potassium.

Flourish Phosphorus is $7.50 mail order for 500 ml. So if you dose once a week that bottle would last you 10 weeks. Cost would be 75¢ a week to dose Phosphorus.

Seachem Nitrogen is $7.50 mail order for 500 ml. So if you dose once a week that bottle will last you 16 weeks. Cost would be 47¢ a week to dose nitrates.

Total cost for one dose a week with Seachem $~2.75. Note there is no shipping factored in here and there are some rounding errors.

To dose the same tank with bulk nutrients.

Nitrates 2¢ a dose.
Phosphates .2¢ a dose. Note that is 5 doses for a penny.
Potassium 4¢ a dose.

Total cost for one dose a week with dry nutrients 6.2¢

Seachem products cost 44X as much per week.

http://www.rexgrigg.com/ferts.htm

best bet is to go pressurized. diy and excel gets costly.

 

[wakemenow]

I just ordered some Seachem products from www.Aquariumplants.com that should arrive soon. Decent prices and they sell live plants. Other folks recommended this site so this is my first purchase from them.