Hi Emann,
the algae on the glass is greenish and very easy to remove....the same i think is the one on the 3d background...pity i did not take photos before...so it means that this cannot go away and i will remain with it?
No, it does not mean that it will never go away, it just means that it's very difficult to make it go away. Since we have not actually confirmed that it is GDA, then we don't really know what the situation is. If it does return then you will have the opportunity to take the photos again. If it does not return then you are in good shape.
Lush Max is a complete aquatic plant food mix containing everything your plants require including; Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Magnesium and Trace Elements.
Analysis % When mixed with 1 litre de-ionised water:
N 1.33%, P 0.12%, K 3.88%, Mg 0.39%, B 0.01%, Cu 0.002%, Fe 0.11%, Mn 0.02%, Mo 0.002%, Zn 0.01%
Yes, OK, but this is still irritating because they do not say what chemical they used to produce these percentages. Probably, to certify the product with the government, they need to specify the percentage of elements at that level, but without any more information it's very difficult for us to determine, for example, whether we are not dosing enough. So troubleshooting becomes difficult
1L of water weighs 1000g, so in that bottle, when brand new there will be 13.3 grams of Nitrogen - but we do not know how the Nitrogen is bound. They could have used an NO3 salt to get the Nitrogen.
Nitrogen is about 22.6% of NO3, which would mean that 59g of NO3 was dissolved in the bottle.
So it is possible that they dissolved a simple salt such as KNO3. to get their 59g.
NO3 is about 60% of KNO3 so that would mean they added about 102g of KNO3 to 1L of water in order to produce 1.33% N.
But we do not know this for sure. They could have used a different salt, such as Ammonium Nitrate, or Urea, or they could have used some combination, in which case, our calculations are completely wrong.
It's a similar situation with P and K. We do not really know what salts they are using and we have to guess.
It's better to know exactly what we are putting into the tank, to practice the simple maths, and gain an to gain an understanding of what we are doing. We can always calculate percentages of N P and K from our dry salts, but we cannot be sure when we go in the opposite direction.
Besides that, 100 grams of KNO3 costs less than 50 cents!
In any case, If Netro+ is the same as LUSH then why are you using one and then switching to the other?
Why not just use the one that is cheaper?
In consideration that I still have quite some more volume of each remaining, would you recommend forgetting them and start EI or else I can finish these and then will proceed with EI.
No, just continue to use it until it's finished. You've already spent the money, so I suggest to carry on.
I have gone rapidly through the tutorial you mentioned and oh boy what still i have to learn.
Really? It's so easy. Your tank is 240L / 60 US gallons right? So just use 3X the dosing that the reference 20G would use. In fact, you could easily round to the nearest teaspoon.
So 3X per week add 1 teaspoon KNO3 and 1/2 teaspoon KH2PO4
2X per week add 1/2 teaspoon Trace element mix.
That's all you need unless your water is low in magnesium and if so you could just add a few teaspoons of Epsom Salt at every water change.
How long will it take to learn that? 20 seconds or less.
Believe me, it much more difficult to read or write about it than to actually do it.
Cheers,
