Product Review: CaribSea Eco Complete Plant Substrate

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Eco-complete is pretty good... Has anyone on this forum used RedSea Florabase; excellent substrate!
 
So, does one actually have to replace the substrate of would dosing with fertilizers be sufficient?
 
Eco-complete is a great substrate, many would agree that it's better than ADA aquasoil.
 
Ecocomplete has iron in it, but I don't know if it has potassium. I dose supplements anyway.
 
Eco-complete is a great substrate, many would agree that it's better than ADA aquasoil.
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I saw a review of Eco-Complete on another site and this guy had pictures of his tank with Eco-Complete and then with ADA Aquasoil and the plant growth and general appearance of all the vegitation was so much better with ADA!

Cheers,
Corin
 
C J Castle;829910; said:
I saw a review of Eco-Complete on another site and this guy had pictures of his tank with Eco-Complete and then with ADA Aquasoil and the plant growth and general appearance of all the vegitation was so much better with ADA!

Cheers,
Corin
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Yes Corin, but remember Tom Barr and the Behemoth tank, the ADA aquasoil was too messy for a large tank, so he switched to Eco-complete. I also heard that Eco-complete had TOO much potassium in one batch which contaminated the water, they do contain it. ADA aquasoil also has Ammonia and Nitrite spikes when starting up a tank and is more messy.

I'm not saying that Eco-complete is a better substrate, infact I would probably go for ADA next time, I'm just pointing out its disadvantages. PLus you can get more variety from Aquasoil, With Eco-complete there is only black and if your aquascape doesn't suit black then it's no good.

Mike
 
used that stuff for along time in a 45 and a 20L both with excelent results and never added a single supplement all plants thrived till I took them out of there my next planted venture will use all ADA products
 
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