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Your almost there. How about using a plastic funnel to add your salts to an empty dosing bottle then measuring out water from the tap into a measuring jug, pouring into dosing bottle, cap it and shake it well. :thumbup:

If you have gone "full whack ADA" then you also have the ferts? I've never used them but I believe they are lower concentrations than that supplied by the average EI user and come in many flavours for different times during a tanks development. They should also have instructions for use. I...

Jim & staff @ TGM should know their stuff with ADA substrate systems. 6 weeks sounds a bit long though. Personally I start ferting as soon as I flood but I use kitty litter. I can't afford the expensive stuff :(

When I researched EI and started mixing I was supposed to be using 6 tsp's. I cut it down to 4 tsp's and things seem ok. Water is fairly hard around here I believe, I haven't tested any water, tank or tap. I might try and whittle it down a little more to see what happens. If you don't need...

James Planted Tank for a guess Clive. http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/allinone.htm

Have you always ran the full 4 x T5's for 10 hours a day on this tank?

EI is designed around supplying excess ferts. You should put the test kit down and keep dosing. :thumbup:

I think is in higher concentrations though. I have no worries dosing both macro & micro on 1 day if I skipped a dose the previous day.

Tap for me too. No problems as yet and my Trace mix is made in 2 month batches. :thumbup:

Dosing EI levels will mean you are dosing excess ferts. As a reply states in one of your other EI threads, unless you are running extreme levels of lighting your plants would not consume all of the available ferts. I'd guess using a substrate with a good CEC would assist with any possible...

Eewww :(

Plants should be fine in the bucket for a few days. Stand them upright if possible, avoid bright lights and if you have a small internal filter to hand that will help. If no filter then just pop the bucket under a running tap every day to freshen things up in there. People perform 3-4 day...

Yup, cat litter all the way. :thumbup:

This is something I've been playing with for some time. I dose EI levels but only dose Macro's, Mondays+Fridays, trace goes in Wednesdays. My latest low tech adventure is for RCS and I'm still unsure how to go about the dosing. Hope someone else chips in that can give more useful info than...

I use the teaspoon approach and not weighing salts. I add the salts to the dosing bottle then top up with required amount of water from a jug. Either way I don't think it really matters which way around you put them in. This is where I started from some dosing calculator...

Your doubling the salts and water so I can't see any reason for it not to dissolve in that amount of water.

I would slap it on the back wall so the flow matches the direction of the spraybar flow.

You could always try a dirt tank, capped soil substrate, unless your already running. Troi had a thread and a web page about it. No dosing, low light, low maintenance. Might be worth a peek.

Yes it opened in the end. I'm at a loss, you could try any off the shelf ferts tbh. As your worried about nitrate build up you would dilute this with your 50% weekly water changes, even though it's not considered essential for low energy tanks and more suited to high enrgy, co2 supplimented...

Link wouldn't open for me. But still. As you want to go with low - moderate lighting I'll presume you wont be adding any co2. You could use half dose of EI and work from there. You could skip out the KNo3 if you wish and trust your water but I guess it could fluctuate. An excess of nutrients...

Dry ferts on that volume unless you want to pay through your teeth for water and shipping water!

I use tap and make 8 weeks supply. Not had any issues. When empty or close to it, I rinse out with tap water and mixup the next batch.

Makes sense. If you dose after the photoperiod then your dosing for the following day. Im sure Clive would say don't worry about it and do it when it suits you, just be consistent.

If the flourish is trace then yes all your trace elements are in there. For your tank you could use what I use in my 125. 4 Tsp Potassium Nitrate 2 Tsp Potassium Phosphate (I upped this half tsp to 2.5 tsp to deal with GSA) 10 Tsp Magnesium Sulphate (this can be lowered if your tap provides...

As Alastair put it, you got it all in the kit. You can then just buy what you need to top up when you running low. If you post the volume of your tank someone can recommend a starting point for your mix.

Gently melted then poured into a pot noodle container :mrgreen: :jawdrop

And to answer your question I would lean towards removing waste but not just from plants. Diluting nutrient levels just happens to come as part of the package.

I think this has come up in a few threads recently. If I happen to stumble on them again I'll link them up here for you.

Start dosing when you fill it up. If you do an unscheduled water change best to do it prior to photoperiod if possible and dose as normal. I have at time dosed both Macro's and Micros on the same day if I missed a dose the day before. Never noticed any problems.

Your dosing this standard twice per week? My calculations came to around 1/2 tsp per 4 weeks on 60l. I use 1tsp to 400ml dosing 25ml twice per week (8 week supply). Without doing all the maths it seems your dosing close to half my value. On a 50l tank you stretch 1 tsp over 25 days. I did round...

Re: is my EI mix ok? plants are not any better after 3-4mont Tom. This was replied to in your other thread mate. Just to recap, you have very little plant mass to utilize these nutrients hence the buildup. Comparing your quantities to my base 60l mix I use they look around average. although...

Dug this up for you. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16032 Took me a while to get my head around it but I'm so glad I did. I got the starter kit from the sponsors about 5 months ago, feeding a 60l + 30l and haven't made a dent in the salts. Not had to buy anything else either. Onced mixed these are also...

This got a :thumbup: for 60ltr so tripling will give you a good starting point. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16032 As for water go for what divides into your required dose. My bottles were marked at 10ml and 25ml.

EI was daunting at first but take the time to read through the articles and get your measurements checked here. I went straight in with the EI starter kit. http://www.aquariumplantfood.co.uk/fert ... r-kit.html

Always a quality read. :clap:

Cheers clive, 1st batch already mixed. Using half dose in my 28 litre too. Easy to scale up for me to 125l when I get to plant it. ;)

After using the calculator I came up with the following. 5/32 Tsp Kno3 1/16 Tsp KH2Po4 3/8 Tsp Mgso4 Multiplying these by 12 for 4 week dosing gives aprox, 2 tsp Kno3, 1 Tsp Kh2po4 and around 5.5-6 tsp of Mgso4. I plan to use 300 ml of water to keep the dosing to a simple 25ml per dose. Trace...