AverageWhiteBloke
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Yesterday when I laid out the Step1 and K (5pumps) I saw the monte carlo to do perling and the stem plants and anubias as well.
I know the water has PH 7 but the NO3 and the PO4 I think were always zero or close to that.
Couple of clues there I think buddy. Can't remember it off the top of my head but there's a law with plants. Plants will need All the traces, potassium, magnesium, Nitrate and Phosphate. Take any one of these away and it deesn't really matter what else you are dosing. Soon as one is missing the plant will fail and show deficiency as it needs them all for photosynthesis. I don't think there's any stage in the plants life when it doesn't need all of them regardless of what stage your tank is at.
ADA supply these through the substrate then compliment the others through the stuff in the bottles. Right now I don't think you are giving them anything so I would go ahead and get on with the dosing and make sure you are providing all of the above. Once you provide all of the above there's only co2 and flow left to worry about. Not sure what your fear of adding them is right now, obviously the plants are lacking something and not adding anything is going to cause more problems than it's going to solve.
The worst thing you can do right now is nothing at all.