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Yes, although I did say treated water changes, by which I meant treated for such.

Most Bacteria is not in the water column, it is in the filter media and hardsurfaces, large treated water changes should not have any significant impact on bacterial populations.

On large tanks diluting into liquid a pain, i just spoon directly into flow. Small tanks I prefer the ready made liquids.

Does it not give you a dosage guidence on the bottle? I would have thought it was in the order of 1ml per 10 litres, unless their mix is different from what I am used to seeing.

Are you thinking that your KH2PO4 salt might actually be somthing else. I guess it is possible they could have confused it with KNO3, although they are a slightly different shade of white and texture. have you tried testing for nitrate?

Re: 10 day old tank, stem plants sick - advice please. EI t I think that was from the PAR testing MR Barr did on several tanks a couple of years ago. I believe he found that 30-40 PAR was recorded at substrate level on most of them. I saw the post on the planted tank not long ago.

yup chuck (well sprinkle) the powders direct from the teaspoon into the tank, thats what ive been doing for two years on an 800 litre tank.

Good, good I thought you did do that, I was just wondering whether more people used it this way, i mean why not, its easier. :) Well perhaps unles you have an auto doser.

Meh, well apart from the tasting excel suggestion (although he did say read the bottle for any warning first)it is good to see people think out of the box, even if ultimately their ideas dont really work.

I have been doing this for a couple of years, i dont mix them up in solution just add them neat. I cant be sure, but I think Clive did/does this and that is what started me off, anything for a more simpler approach. I just add the powder from teaspoon measurements straight into the flow.