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I'm looking into Aquarium Fertilizers, and I came across a couple forums including this one which mentioned, which mentioned a cheap dry fertlizer alternative @ http://www.aquariumfertilizer.com. This got me interested, because I am paying some $$ for Seachem right now.

I'm kinda confused because I don't know what all these chemicals are for. I'm a fertilzer Newb, and seachem made it easy on me.

For example Seachem Excel was for raising Carbon, and Iron was for raising Iron, and Trace gave me my Micro Elements.

Can anyone describe what each of the below products does and is for? I'd greatly appreciate it.

Barr's GH Booster

Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)

Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)

Calcium Nitrate (CaNO3)

Calcium Sulfate (CaSO4)

CSM+B Plantex

Iron Chelate 10%

Magnesium Sulfate (MgSO4)

Mono Potassium Phosphate (KH2PO4)

Potassium Nitrate (KNO3)

Potassium Sulfate (K2SO4)
 
This isn't exactly detail, but it's what you'll need to get it right! Good luck.

MACRO
N, P, K
Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium - the macronutrients.
  • 500 ml of distilled water
  • 61 g Potassium nitrate (KNO3)
  • 5.2 g Potassium monophosphate (KP04)
  • 10.8 g Magnesium sulphate (MgSO4)
  • 1.8 g Potassium sulphate (KSO4)
3 times a week add 10 ml per 20 gallons of tank. This will add 30 ppm nitrate a week to a tank with corresponding correct proportions for the other macronutrtients.
100 Gal = 50ML


MICRO
FE + Trace
Iron and trace elements.
  • Use 40 grams of Plantex CSM+B
  • 1000 ml of distilled water.
Use 1 ml per 2 gal to raise Fe 5.0 ppm. Ie 20 gal tank gets 10ml (two capfuls)
Dose daily, biweekly or weekly depending on bioload
100Gal = 60ML
 
Exodus00FF said:
I'm looking into Aquarium Fertilizers, and I came across a couple forums including this one which mentioned, which mentioned a cheap dry fertlizer alternative @ http://www.aquariumfertilizer.com. This got me interested, because I am paying some $$ for Seachem right now.

I'm kinda confused because I don't know what all these chemicals are for. I'm a fertilzer Newb, and seachem made it easy on me.

For example Seachem Excel was for raising Carbon, and Iron was for raising Iron, and Trace gave me my Micro Elements.

Can anyone describe what each of the below products does and is for? I'd greatly appreciate it.

Barr's GH Booster
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)

Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)

Calcium Nitrate (CaNO3)

Calcium Sulfate (CaSO4)

CSM+B Plantex

Iron Chelate 10%

Magnesium Sulfate (MgSO4)

Mono Potassium Phosphate (KH2PO4)

Potassium Nitrate (KNO3)

Potassium Sulfate (K2SO4)
Click to expand...


Tom usually recommends

Barr's GH Booster

Mono Potassium Phosphate (KH2PO4)

Potassium Nitrate (KNO3)

CSM+B Plantex

this should give you the immediate needs ot the tank
KH2PO4 is a macro
KNO3 is a macro
CSM+B is the micro

gh booster to replace the minerals
 
Yes check out Rex's page, that Nolapete linked to, he has all the info you need and also sells the ferts. I have done business with him and he is safe and easy to deal with.
 
Rex's Page looks very informative. But it doesn't look like there is a Flourish Excel replacement. Am I wrong on this?
 
Yeah He uses CO2 ;)
 
Exodus00FF said:
I'm looking into Aquarium Fertilizers, and I came across a couple forums including this one which mentioned, which mentioned a cheap dry fertlizer alternative @ http://www.aquariumfertilizer.com. This got me interested, because I am paying some $$ for Seachem right now.

I'm kinda confused because I don't know what all these chemicals are for. I'm a fertilzer Newb, and seachem made it easy on me.

For example Seachem Excel was for raising Carbon, and Iron was for raising Iron, and Trace gave me my Micro Elements.

Can anyone describe what each of the below products does and is for? I'd greatly appreciate it.

Barr's GH Booster

Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)

Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)

Calcium Nitrate (CaNO3)

Calcium Sulfate (CaSO4)

CSM+B Plantex

Iron Chelate 10%

Magnesium Sulfate (MgSO4)

Mono Potassium Phosphate (KH2PO4)

Potassium Nitrate (KNO3)

Potassium Sulfate (K2SO4)
Click to expand...

Helps if you give more background for your tank.

Excel, high light?
CO2? Volume etc?

General goal.

Dosing is easy once you do it 1-3X.
Do not freak over KNO3 names etc.
Folks don't have cows when they add baking soda to cookies etc, even though it has a chemical formula name.

Add 1/4 teaspoon etc.

No big deal.

Folks get weird and scared though, some go with brand names and pay a lot of $$$ for water basically.

I think Alan will be selling an Excel like item sometime.
Cheaper etc. Rex is on and off, takes some time to get the items, Alan(aquariumfertilizers.com) is pretty fast about it.

For say a 55 gal tank with CO2, moderate light:

2 lbs GH booster
2lbs KNO3
1 KH2PO4
1 Lb CMS+B
1/2lb of 10% Iron if you wish, mix into the CMS.

This will last a long time(years likely).

For tanks under say 20-30 gallon, makign a stock solution might be easier than measuring 1/16th of teaspoon, but this is not rocket science either, if you are off 1-4ppm of NO3, it's not an issue, as long as you dose some(little more, little less)

All we are doing is not letting things become limiting.

The rest is having moderate to low light and then mostly...........and 95% of the issues, are CO2 gas. So later, that is where you should focus most of the energy and tweaking things.

Nutrients are easy once you do them a few times.
Easy to reset(water change) and you can avoid test kits if you wish using water changes(most do anyway and many hate testing, even if they lie and tell others they should do it:silly:)



Regards,
Tom Barr
 
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