EI dosing

Taari

Taari

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Ok, I need a refresher course on EI dosing. I used to do it years ago, but I forgot how. I have all my dry ferts still, I just have no idea how to figure out how much to dose in my 40 gallon. Any links or tutorials would be helpful. Thanks.
 
do I need a GH booster? My water is pretty hard already. We get our water here from an aquifer, and I don't have any softeners added to mine.

I have Nitrate, Potassium, phosphate, and CSM+B for my dry ferts.

Right now the tank is not very planted, but it will be.
 
Taari said:
do I need a GH booster? My water is pretty hard already. We get our water here from an aquifer, and I don't have any softeners added to mine.

I have Nitrate, Potassium, phosphate, and CSM+B for my dry ferts.

Right now the tank is not very planted, but it will be.
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gh is optional.

Will you be using co2?

For now you can half the doses suggested.
 
I'm trying to avoid CO2. I have only half the lighting on the tank that it will eventually have. i wanted to give the plants a little time to adjust before I pumped up the light and ferts so that algae didn't take over early on. I have a tiny bit of brown diatoms on one anubias plant, but that's it. The lighting will only be about 2wpg total though.
 
Taari said:
I'm trying to avoid CO2. I have only half the lighting on the tank that it will eventually have. i wanted to give the plants a little time to adjust before I pumped up the light and ferts so that algae didn't take over early on. I have a tiny bit of brown diatoms on one anubias plant, but that's it. The lighting will only be about 2wpg total though.
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What will be the type of lighting? CF/PC/T5?

brown diatoms are nothing to worry about, you can scrub the anubia leaves to take it off, just keep up on water changes.

I would say since you are trying to avoid co2, start low with the ferts, see how the plants go and work from there..

BUT it also depends on plants you get. If you get anubias/ferns and other slow growing plants that dont take in that much nutrients, then theres no point in dosing so much 3x a week.
 
I'm going with all rhizome and runner plants. no stem plants. I've got anubias nana, java fern, dwarf sag, microsword, crypts, some kind of large anubias and a petite nana also, and another plant I can't remember the name of that Barbie gave me. I'll also have some vals in the back corner for height and possibly a tiger lotus for variety and a bit of red.
 
I should probably also mention that there is only a single 1" fish in the tank, and he will remain the tanks sole occupant unless I manage to find something that he can hang with, which is unlikely. As an adult, he'll be around 6" but it will take a couple years for him to get there. Ctenopoma Acutirostre. So due to the very low bio load, I think I need to dose nitrates too.
 
small doses once a week or so should do it. mixing up a 1:1:1:1 mixture (say a tsp or tbsp of each) and adding a pinch once or twice a week should suffice. extra pinch of kno3 as necessary...

put it in a pill organizer and you've got 2-7 weeks of dosing in less than a minute.
 
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