AgSafe Aquarium gravel conditioning tabs

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Since I've filled up my tank and upgraded my filtration, I've been concentrating more on the plants in my aquarium. I certainly don't have much experience or a fancy budget, but I have been doing my research.

This is a low light tank that has low light plants doing well. My tank is very soft with a pH stable at 6.5 from the peat moss, has low nitrates, but relatively high phosphate (0.42 ppm) from the tap water. I just started a simple CO2 reactor and was looking for a simple way to enrich my pure sand substrate for lusher growth since CO2 is no longer limiting.

Problem is that I didn't start out with a good substrate. I don't want to tear the tank down. I was looking for mostly potassium and iron, but I wanted some trace elements as well. I also wanted this in the ground.

Anyway, I found http://www.gardenlink.com/AquariumPlantFood.htm these. Seems to be everything I want. And they will send you a free sample. Is this exactly what I need?

The only problems I can think of are that is has cytokinin (a plant growth hormone). anyways, there is a nice technical summary of it here: http://www.gardenlink.com/agsafeaquariumplanttabletstechnical.pdf

What do you guys think?

Brandon
 
Those look like pretty good plant tabs, but I would still add either a laterite, flourite, eco-complete, or flora-base. Those will still work though if you don't want to do the substrate change. Expect to use them a little more often since you lack the substrate to keep levels more constant.
 
Hey if they give a free sample it's worth a try. I think i'll try some in my 29 gal tank.
good luck.
 
Let me know how they affect your plants, and test if you can! I'm thinking of order some of those to try them out.
 
What's to think about? It's free.

I'll be sure to let you know how they work, but my plants are still reeling from the CO2
 
Do you not use ferts??

I am thinking because, a free sample would last me one day. I'm looking at buying at least 600 tabs.
 
I finally got this free sample, but looks like they sent me 10 instead of 5. I put them in a second ago. I put them under some struggling crypts, so I'll let you know if they perk up.

Brandon
 
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