Need dosage suggestion of Flourish and Flourish Excel for 10g

[lake_tuna]

I've been dosing a little less than half of the recommended amount for a few weeks since I got Flourish and Flourish Excel. I haven't noticed anything dramatic, but I did notice that hair algea went away. In your experience, what is the safest amount to dose without negatively affecting main inhabitants (shrimp) of my planted 10g? I has 2WPG, and the plants are mainly java fern, java moss, Christmas moss, dwarf sags, and a few other miscellaneous low-light plants.

Recommended dosage as shown on bottles
Flourish: 0.83ml/10g once a week
Flourish: 1ml/10g every day or every other day

Here's a picture of my 10g tank.

 

[reiverix]

Nice little setup. These aren't demanding plants. I would just use the regular dose of Flourish and probably not bother with the Excel. If the Excel is helping control algae then yeah, it's fine.

However, I see what may be anacharis in your tank and that plant is sensitive to Excel and might melt.

 

[lake_tuna]

Oh that's right.. anacharis might melt with Excel from what I've read. I'll move it to another tank is it starts melting. I intended to get Excel only to get rid of hair algae, but ended up buying the regular Flourish since I was already at the store.

 

[irishspy]

I use almost the exact same dosage in my 10g and it works just fine -- no harm to my shrimps, either. :thumbsup:

 

[lake_tuna]

I use almost the exact same dosage in my 10g and it works just fine -- no harm to my shrimps, either. :thumbsup:

Do you use both Flourish and Flourish Excel? Also, do you have any fish with the shrimp?

I'm having very dark hair algae issues for the past 2 days (growing really fast), possibly BBA, and I'm starting to think it's from a nutritional imbalance..

 

[irishspy]

Do you use both Flourish and Flourish Excel? Also, do you have any fish with the shrimp?

Yep. I do an almost full Seachem regimen, though I'll switch to dry ferts once I get the new tank going. (Seachem is ok price-wise for a lone 10g.) I've had bettas with the shrimp, and they did fine. Right now, however, there are only two amanos in the tank, as the last betta died (RIP, Louie T. Betta.) and I'm rescaping the tank for new occupants.

I'm having very dark hair algae issues for the past 2 days (growing really fast), possibly BBA, and I'm starting to think it's from a nutritional imbalance..

I had a similar problem and double-dosed Excel for, IIRC, two weeks. The algae went away. I'm not sure what effect that might have on shrimp, however.

You might also turn off the filter for 30 minutes to stop water motion and squirt some excel directly onto the mass of algae. That should kill it.