matthewwoodgate
Member
Hi there can anyone help me
with how much tropica specialised I need to dose into my aquarium please.
A week ago I set up a dennerle nano cube 20 litre with 4 types of easy grow plants, Bacopa Caroliniana, Cryptocoryne wendti green, Helanthium Bolivian up and Marsilea hirsuta.
Obviously there is a dosage recommendation on the bottle which works out to 1ml per 10 litre of water per week. After I put my substrate, hardscape and plants in I put 15 litres of water in so I dosed 1.5ml of fert. Today will be my first water change so looking for advice on dosing going forward.
Some say dosing should be daily but dividing 1.5ml into 7 doses is impossible.
In his new book George Farmer recommends 1ml per 40 litre per day for low energy set up (I don’t have CO2 injection) so that would be 0.375 ml per day which is a lot more than tropica say. I will always do a 50% water change every week and I use a cut of 50% RO water and hard tap water.
I gave up this hobby a few years ago coz of algae (and massive snail infestation) so I’m trying to do everything right this time.
any advice would be helpful please.
A week ago I set up a dennerle nano cube 20 litre with 4 types of easy grow plants, Bacopa Caroliniana, Cryptocoryne wendti green, Helanthium Bolivian up and Marsilea hirsuta.
Obviously there is a dosage recommendation on the bottle which works out to 1ml per 10 litre of water per week. After I put my substrate, hardscape and plants in I put 15 litres of water in so I dosed 1.5ml of fert. Today will be my first water change so looking for advice on dosing going forward.
Some say dosing should be daily but dividing 1.5ml into 7 doses is impossible.
In his new book George Farmer recommends 1ml per 40 litre per day for low energy set up (I don’t have CO2 injection) so that would be 0.375 ml per day which is a lot more than tropica say. I will always do a 50% water change every week and I use a cut of 50% RO water and hard tap water.
I gave up this hobby a few years ago coz of algae (and massive snail infestation) so I’m trying to do everything right this time.
any advice would be helpful please.