Seachem Product Question

rofl. thats what made me ask the original ? b/c I seen that and was like hmmmmm. I know even as a newbie theres a bunch of wastefull products.

K no on to npk. what are the normal levels of that in tanks with regular stockings? I thought the NPK stuff was extra fish food and poop. the traces were things you needed "traces" of. Like a pinch of equilibrium once a week?

I see flourish has more goodies in it. but not at the same levels. for a good reason im sure. But with the information out on the table with values and possible dosages and effects.

Will I be ok if I quit using (running out) tetra florapride and do a pinch of this each week on my 5g and 10g? I will buy a test kit later. And if I see/seen any probs I'd obviously quit use. But to test it and add such a miniscule amount as a small plant fert. I dont belive I'd see any changes if I did test. thats what im/was hoping for.
 
Ok, so, generally in high light and added co2 tanks, fish poop is not enough NPK for the plants.

I said it before, if you want/are using high light and co2 injection, you also want to add ferts. That means NPK AND Traces. Again, traces are vitamins, NPK is the meal. You couldn't survive on Vitamin C alone for the rest of your life.

If you want to maximize growth, you need NPK. If you don't want to add NPK, I recommend dropping down your light level and losing the co2.

This is a low light level tank. He's got 182watts over a 150 gallon tank. 1.2 wpg. It's amazing, eh? You can have this. Low light, no co2, add Flourish every once and a while.

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This is pretty much been disproven for quite some time. I cant speak for calcium and magnesium in particular, but in general its been proven that a slight excess of ferts over long term has no ill effect, nor huge excess of nutrients over the short term. You'll see folks like Barr using the term 'non-limiting' nutrient levels rather than 'balanced' levels now-a-days.
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Perhaps I didn't explain myself correctly but what I was saying was that excess of single elements can lead to problems if it causes a crash in the levels of others. If I dose only one kind of fert to excess forgoing all others I most certainly have issues in my tank.
 
thanks Jeffrey. whats a good NPK product? and then to confirm- equilibrium is traces? and of my florapride ingredients listed earlier is it trace as well? Ive been using it for a month or two with no ill effects? Im not being a smartbutt, just thinking maybe I should just continue that. Like that I'd stubbled across the right mix already?

I know my wpg is 5.2 for my 5g and 1.6 with the 10g. But my 5g looks really nice.
 
Tetra Florapride isn't some magic all-in-one fertilizer. It's mostly potassium, very little N, very little P.

As I have mentioned before, there isn't any one product that will give you everything you need. The reason is because every tank is different. Therefore, you can either purchase all of these:

Flourish Iron
Flourish Nitrogen
Flourish Potassium
Flouish Phosphorus

All for about $15/bottle and it'll last you a month or two.

or

you can check out

www.rexgrigg.com and order enough dry ferts to last you two years, for a whopping total of about $20
 
Dry ferts is definatly the way to go for cost savings. And I still suggest you check out Aquatic Plant Central. They are very good at spelling out the various ways to use fertilizers in your tank.
 
I just might have too. I like the convience of purchasing locally and just squirting it in. I have to mix a couple of times a year? every few months and house the bottles of various mixed solutions, and dose some like each day?
 
I just made up two solutions, where I only have to dose 1 capful(measured to be 5mL) a day(from the way I made it), and that is in a 500mL bottle, therefore, that wil last me 100 dosings. Since I dose only one of the bottles, every other day, that mean's my solutions will last me approximately 200 days, so every 200 days I'll have to remix.
 
not too bad.
 
Mixing your own though, make sure to keep them refrigerated. Thinghs like KNO3 are fine but Micro fert mixes with iron can go moldy quickly.
 
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