Why alternate between macro and trace?

is hihohiho shortened for something or simply a friendly "hi"?

 

Im not sure of the exact answer but i do them seperate because if i add them together it makes the water cloud.

 

The reason that it was originally suggested to dose them on seperate days was to avoid the risk of the Iron and Phosphate reacting together to form Iron Phosphate and precipitate out of solution, making the water cloudy and at the same time making the Iron less readily available to the plants.

However, given the low concentration levels once in the tank water, I've never noticed a problem with dosing them the same day. I do allow some time between adding the two though.

On the other hand, I wouldn't store concentrated micros in the same container with concentrated macros. In this case you will definitely get precipitation.

 

Do you dose Macros along with Traces on Waterchanges? Or do you wait with Traces until next day?
Also, Iron is less readily at high pH. Shouldnt we dose the Traces after a couple of hours of CO2 beeing on, lowering the pH?

 

Could we clarify things?
Is there gain in adding macros and traces 1 day apart?
Is there a gain in adding traces in lower pH (as some of the iron gets less readily in >6.5 pH).

 

Hmmm....so it's not anything to do with a "feast or famine" scenario? I was thinking that maybe having everything dosed every other day might have adverse affected plant or fish health. I guess I was making too much of an animal analogy, where multiple small meals a day is more efficient than fewer larger meals.

 

Im only thinking of pH as many people use citric acid to lower pH in their trace-mix. Also in emers plant growing they use low pH with their traces cause iron gets chelated in pH > 6.5 (and some of the iron in pH >4.5).

But you mean with higher alkalinity iron gets less readily and we should instead aim for low alkalinity (and salinity)?

 

I've switched from dosing traces every other day to every day. The reason being is that it's just convenient for me to get up in the morning and squirt in the ferts. I can't see any difference in plant growth at all. I still dose macros every other day and that's after I get home from work.