Hi everybody,
This is my first post on this forum, but I've been lurking around for a while now slowly soaking up the massive amount of info!
I posted this same question on TPT, but didn't really get a clear answer so I was hoping that people who were more familiar with EI could chime in and help ease my worries.
I've been dosing plantex CSM+B as micros, but would like to try out flourish comp. a few weeks as a micro just to compare. There is alot of info about CSM+B dosing, but there seems to be lots of conflicting answers for flourish dosing.
According to Wet's EI calculator, it bases the micro dose on iron to 0.5ppm. The tank I am dosing is 29g - so the calc says that I would need to add 17ml of flourish comp 3x a week for my micros. In some of the threads I found during my search, people were recommending 5-6ml dose for a 29 gallon? Wouldn't this not be enough iron or an I completely missing something here or using the calculator wrong...?
Specs of my tank:
29 gal
2x 24 t5ho
pressurized CO2 ~30ppm
EI dosing, 50% wc once a week
very heavily planted with lots of fast stems:
Alternanthera Reineckii
Rotala Roundifolia
Cabomba Pulcherrima
Limnophila Aromatica
Nesaea Crassicaulis
Also, should I be supplimenting iron in addition to normal micro dose to help bring out reds in some of the above plants?
Thanks in advance!
This is my first post on this forum, but I've been lurking around for a while now slowly soaking up the massive amount of info!
I posted this same question on TPT, but didn't really get a clear answer so I was hoping that people who were more familiar with EI could chime in and help ease my worries.
I've been dosing plantex CSM+B as micros, but would like to try out flourish comp. a few weeks as a micro just to compare. There is alot of info about CSM+B dosing, but there seems to be lots of conflicting answers for flourish dosing.
According to Wet's EI calculator, it bases the micro dose on iron to 0.5ppm. The tank I am dosing is 29g - so the calc says that I would need to add 17ml of flourish comp 3x a week for my micros. In some of the threads I found during my search, people were recommending 5-6ml dose for a 29 gallon? Wouldn't this not be enough iron or an I completely missing something here or using the calculator wrong...?
Specs of my tank:
29 gal
2x 24 t5ho
pressurized CO2 ~30ppm
EI dosing, 50% wc once a week
very heavily planted with lots of fast stems:
Alternanthera Reineckii
Rotala Roundifolia
Cabomba Pulcherrima
Limnophila Aromatica
Nesaea Crassicaulis
Also, should I be supplimenting iron in addition to normal micro dose to help bring out reds in some of the above plants?
Thanks in advance!
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