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So should I just give the full amount? I'm surprised at how much magnesium they recommend, I thought NPK were the three main ones. I'm new to all this EI business.

That's a good point, I do have some floating plant in there already, it grows like mad in my other two tanks and I'm forever thinning it down but its good because I swap it for stuff at the tropical fish shops or sell it at the local tropical fish auctions.

How many hours would you recommend please? I recently heard about people giving their tank a siesta period. That sounds good as a way of keeping the light on when I'm there without giving the plants too many hours and so I can still see the tank on an evening when Im in, its a bonus if its good...

According to Yorkshire water I have some magnesium, here's the report although I'm not sure what level Im aiming for so i just guessed a bit. I don't think my tap water is particularly good for most plants being fairly hard. Water quality report Substance Typical value UK/European limit...

Yes, the nourish will have iron plus after i went onto solid ferts i added trace ferts. I tested my water and it came out at 0.5ppm iron.

In the calculation I used 300 litres for my tank volume, I only added 30 g of magnesium sulphate to the stock solution instead of 74 g as my water is fairly hard anyway (GH 11), its actually MgSO4.7H2O that I recieved too, I dont know if the calcualtion is meant for that?

The tank is about 75 gallons and I give it 12 hours light per day. I don't add CO2 To be honest I haven't followed EI properly, I used some stuff called nourish that I got from aqua essentials for the first week adding 17 mls per day and then I started looking into solid ferts. On the second...

Hi I have a tank which I set up a couple of weeks ago. the new growth is pale green, on my amazon swords the new leaves are the biggest so kind of a good sign but the leaves are much paler green like lime green and you can see through them, Its similar with the other plants. The tank is...