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Dosing / water change question

Brad123

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Tank coming up to 3 weeks plants are growing and doing 50% water change daily. Was thinking of starting to dosing the tank with specialised nutrition.
But doing daily water changes I think it will just be a waist.
When should 1 start dosing?
 
@Brad123 I would have started dosing fertilizer on day 1 - after planting! your tank is coming along though. Not sure if doing 50% WC's every day! is overkill - I would usually just do 2-3 x 30-40% per week on a new tank (which may not be enough), but I don't know the pros and cons when running a CO2-injected tank. When you say "specialised nutrition" do you mean Tropica specialized nutrition?
Cheers,
Michael
 
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I would have started 3 weeks ago when you first planted! Just because you are doing 50% daily water changes, saving money by not dosing food for the plants is a false economy.

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Just thought I would be taking it out every time I did a water change( well some of it). Will start dosing in the morning.
@Brad123 I would have started dosing fertilizer on day 1 - after planting! your tank is coming along though. Not sure if doing 50% WC's every day! is overkill - I would usually just do 2-3 x 30-40% per week on a new tank (which may not be enough), but I don't know the pros and cons when running a CO2-injected tank. When you say "specialised nutrition" do you mean Tropica specialized nutrition?
Cheers,
Michael
Yes it is tropica specialised nutrition. As for the 50% WC got into a habit of doing it every night will start to cutting it back to every second day have been thinking about it. Will start dosing in the morning.
 
Just thought I would be taking it out every time I did a water change( well some of it). Will start dosing in the morning.

Yes it is tropica specialised nutrition. As for the 50% WC got into a habit of doing it every night will start to cutting it back to every second day have been thinking about it. Will start dosing in the morning.
@Brad123 I've had good experience with Tropica Specialized - I use it after each WC and premium mid-week. Yes, after 3-4 weeks you probably don't have to do more than a couple of large WC's per week depending on bio load, fertilizer regime etc. I am doing one 40-50% per week in my two moderately stocked, but heavily planted 150 liter low-tech tanks, but I used to do only 20% weekly WCs for many months (after the initial 2-3 times per week), and that just didn't cut it.

Cheers,
Michael
 
Tank coming up to 3 weeks plants are growing and doing 50% water change daily. Was thinking of starting to dosing the tank with specialised nutrition.
But doing daily water changes I think it will just be a waist.
When should 1 start dosing?
Daily water changes is not really necessary. A 2X or max 3X per week is good for the first 3-4 weeks and then once per week is the standard thereafter. As mentioned, with this scheme dosing after the water change makes more sense.

Cheers,
 
Daily water changes is not really necessary. A 2X or max 3X per week is good for the first 3-4 weeks and then once per week is the standard thereafter. As mentioned, with this scheme dosing after the water change makes more sense.

Cheers,
Thank you will back off a bit on water changes got the old dosing pump out the shed and got it set up so will be dosing just before light come on.
Cheers all for the advice
 
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