Ok, so firstly I was wondering how / if you can compare the various Liquid Carbon products. At the moment I have only looked at the ones that Aqua Essentials Sells;
Easy Life Easy Carbo
'Medium planted' dose is 1ml / 50L, (or 5ml for 250L for ease of comparisons)
£19.99 per Litre
Seachem Flourish Excel
5ml / 200L
£18 / L (Calculated from the cost of £35.99 / 2L)
AE Design Liquid Carbon
5ml / 250L
£14.99 / L
So roughly speaking I can see that all of these recomend roughly the same dosing, so does that mean that they are all going to be roughly the same 'strength' ?
In which case is anyone of these going to be better than the other? I don't see how it could be? So do I just go for the cheapest?
At the moment I am using the AE Design one, but I wanted to see what else was available.
Also onto the second problem, I am running a 300L (80 US gal) tank, with 2 x 39w T5HO over it with reflectors.
I am dosing El and also approx. 6ml of the AE Design Liquid Carbon each day before lights-on, but I have BBA on my bogwood and it also seems to be finely on the leaves of the amazon sword, and perhaps getting into my flame moss too.
What is the recomendation here? I have seen posts about overdosing liquid carbon, but also on almost all of the liquid carbon products there are big bold warnings not to overdose
I noticed that the EasyCarbo actually says that for 'heavy' planted aquariums you should dose at 1ml / 25L, which would be the equivalent of me putting 12ml into my tank instead of the 6ml I do at the moment. I wouldn't class my tank as particularly heavily planted, but would this help to combat the BBA?
Thanks for any and all replies
Easy Life Easy Carbo
'Medium planted' dose is 1ml / 50L, (or 5ml for 250L for ease of comparisons)
£19.99 per Litre
Seachem Flourish Excel
5ml / 200L
£18 / L (Calculated from the cost of £35.99 / 2L)
AE Design Liquid Carbon
5ml / 250L
£14.99 / L
So roughly speaking I can see that all of these recomend roughly the same dosing, so does that mean that they are all going to be roughly the same 'strength' ?
In which case is anyone of these going to be better than the other? I don't see how it could be? So do I just go for the cheapest?
At the moment I am using the AE Design one, but I wanted to see what else was available.
Also onto the second problem, I am running a 300L (80 US gal) tank, with 2 x 39w T5HO over it with reflectors.
I am dosing El and also approx. 6ml of the AE Design Liquid Carbon each day before lights-on, but I have BBA on my bogwood and it also seems to be finely on the leaves of the amazon sword, and perhaps getting into my flame moss too.
What is the recomendation here? I have seen posts about overdosing liquid carbon, but also on almost all of the liquid carbon products there are big bold warnings not to overdose
I noticed that the EasyCarbo actually says that for 'heavy' planted aquariums you should dose at 1ml / 25L, which would be the equivalent of me putting 12ml into my tank instead of the 6ml I do at the moment. I wouldn't class my tank as particularly heavily planted, but would this help to combat the BBA?
Thanks for any and all replies