Questions

[aquaculture]

These are the plants that iam getting in the mail:
Bolbitis Heudelotii
Hydrotriche hottoniiflora
Nesaea sp red
Barclaya Longifolia

What would be the best and most economical fertilizer to use?

What are your experiences with these plants, have read up on them so I know what to expect, but i want experiences also.

 

[aquaculture]

Also how important is ph to plants, des it just need to be stable ?

 

[mgamer20o0]

http://www.aquariumfertilizer.com/

some plants need lower ph but none of those. i would worry about the light over ferts.

 

[aquaculture]

I already got my lighting figured out.Thanks for the link mgamer20o0, shipping looks like it would be killer with wieght being in pounds though.

Has anyone used seachem fertilizer tabs, I have a good chance of getting this fertilizer locally.

 

[mgamer20o0]

not really since you are in cali shipping even heavy packages are not that much. more so when you weigh in on bottle of liquid ferts that will last a month or two vs dry ferts which you can get cheaper and last over a year. its well worth it.

• If you are dosing 60gallons of water with Flourish Potassium you would need 100 ml to get to 20 ppm.
• If you are dosing 60 gallons of water with Flourish Phosphorus you would need to dose 48 ml to get to 1 ppm.
• If you are dosing 60 gallons of water with Flourish Nitrogen you would need to dose 30 ml to get to 10 ppm.
• Flourish Potassium is $6 mail order for 500 ml. So if you dose once a week that bottle will last you 5 weeks. Cost would $1.25 a week to dose potassium.
• Flourish Phosphorus is $7.50 mail order for 500 ml. So if you dose once a week that bottle would last you 10 weeks. Cost would be 75¢ a week to dose Phosphorus.
• Seachem Nitrogen is $7.50 mail order for 500 ml. So if you dose once a week that bottle will last you 16 weeks. Cost would be 47¢ a week to dose nitrates.
• Total cost for one dose a week with Seachem $~2.75. Note there is no shipping factored in here and there are some rounding errors.

To dose the same tank with bulk nutrients.

• Nitrates 2¢ a dose.
• Phosphates .2¢ a dose. Note that is 5 doses for a penny.
• Total cost for one dose a week with dry nutrients 6.2¢

root tabs are good but i dont see any heavy root feeders off hand.