EA James
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Hi all,
During lockdown i bought my first lot of dry salts, individually from Aqua plants care. Since then I've had a few minor issues caused by excess nutrients and from posts on here a few people thought my nitrates were high enough from the tap to not need to add any more.
I Haven't been dosing for around a month now and surprisingly the diatom looking algae has cleared up and the glass is staying clean in between water changes. I'm also injecting co2 so i'm quite shocked that i'm not having any issues.....BUT!... I know that its probably not going to stay like that?! Saying that I'm starting to see a bit of a difference in some of the leaves of my crypts (yellow dots) but I'm not sure on what that is but generally the tanks doing ok.
So according to my water report my minimum nitrate level is 31.6 and i think the max was around 40ppm. I was using potassium nitrate in my old recipe so firstly does the APFUK starter contain that and if so should i not add any? Or should i swap the KNO3 for something else?
Also on that note how long would it take for the nitrates in my tank to deplete? I'm guessing plant volume would play a big part in that answer so probably a stupid question?!
I'll post a pic of the tank in it's current condition so you can see the plant mass for the fert help, as always, any help will be appreciated 👍
Cheers, James
During lockdown i bought my first lot of dry salts, individually from Aqua plants care. Since then I've had a few minor issues caused by excess nutrients and from posts on here a few people thought my nitrates were high enough from the tap to not need to add any more.
I Haven't been dosing for around a month now and surprisingly the diatom looking algae has cleared up and the glass is staying clean in between water changes. I'm also injecting co2 so i'm quite shocked that i'm not having any issues.....BUT!... I know that its probably not going to stay like that?! Saying that I'm starting to see a bit of a difference in some of the leaves of my crypts (yellow dots) but I'm not sure on what that is but generally the tanks doing ok.
So according to my water report my minimum nitrate level is 31.6 and i think the max was around 40ppm. I was using potassium nitrate in my old recipe so firstly does the APFUK starter contain that and if so should i not add any? Or should i swap the KNO3 for something else?
Also on that note how long would it take for the nitrates in my tank to deplete? I'm guessing plant volume would play a big part in that answer so probably a stupid question?!
I'll post a pic of the tank in it's current condition so you can see the plant mass for the fert help, as always, any help will be appreciated 👍
Cheers, James