flourish trace vs iron vs excel?

[linda mar]

Hi all

more newbie questions.. I apologize if I'm pestering everybody with trivial
questions... (in hopes of not killing off too many plants along the way..)

I just bought some flourish... and from reading the posts, it seems like
many of the plants I would be getting requires lots of iron... (amazon
swords, crypts, apongetons, etc)

I've been trying to decide what other goodies I should get for the plants...
and am a bit confused between the merits of getting flourish trace vs
flourish iron vs flourish excel...

can somebody break the three choices down to why you want to use which
product, and how I would know which to get? (like, do I need to buy iron
tester? etc?)

linda

[Chuck Gadd]

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:43:37 -0800, "linda mar" >
wrote:

>I've been trying to decide what other goodies I should get for the plants...
>and am a bit confused between the merits of getting flourish trace vs
>flourish iron vs flourish excel...

It's not a "one or the other" thing. The various seachem products
compliment each other. Flourish provides the micro-nutrients,
including some iron, but not enough iron in most cases. Flourish iron
doesn't provide any of the other needed traces, just the iron. So,
Flourish Iron + Flourish = all micro nutrients should be good.

Flourish Excel is a source of carbon. It might be beneficial if you
are not injecting CO2. It doesn't completely replace CO2 injection,
but it can improve growth if you can't/won't do CO2 injection.


Chuck Gadd
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua

[Ron Kundla]

So would TMG be the equivalent of SeaChem Flourish and Flourish Iron?

"Chuck Gadd" > wrote in message
...
>
> It's not a "one or the other" thing. The various seachem products
> compliment each other. Flourish provides the micro-nutrients,
> including some iron, but not enough iron in most cases. Flourish iron
> doesn't provide any of the other needed traces, just the iron. So,
> Flourish Iron + Flourish = all micro nutrients should be good.
>

[Chuck Gadd]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:20:57 GMT, "Ron Kundla" >
wrote:

>So would TMG be the equivalent of SeaChem Flourish and Flourish Iron?
>

Yes, and I prefer using TMG, because I feel it gives me the iron and
other traces in the right proportion.

Chuck Gadd
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua

[linda mar]

what's TMG?

linda

"Chuck Gadd" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:20:57 GMT, "Ron Kundla" >
> wrote:
>
> >So would TMG be the equivalent of SeaChem Flourish and Flourish Iron?
> >
>
> Yes, and I prefer using TMG, because I feel it gives me the iron and
> other traces in the right proportion.
>
> Chuck Gadd
> http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua

[Daniel Whiting]

I just learned that it's Tropica MasterGrow. Do a quick search on google
for it.. Has anyone purchased this online? If so, where?


linda mar wrote:
> what's TMG?
>
> linda
>
> "Chuck Gadd" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:20:57 GMT, "Ron Kundla" >
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So would TMG be the equivalent of SeaChem Flourish and Flourish Iron?
>>>
>>
>>Yes, and I prefer using TMG, because I feel it gives me the iron and
>>other traces in the right proportion.
>>
>>Chuck Gadd
>>http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua
>
>
>

[Daniel Whiting]

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Never mind.. Quick search of the obvious sources (ie. bigal's) and I
find it quite easily..

Daniel Whiting wrote:
> I just learned that it's Tropica MasterGrow. Do a quick search on google
> for it.. Has anyone purchased this online? If so, where?
>
>
> linda mar wrote:
>
>> what's TMG?
>>
>> linda
>>
>> "Chuck Gadd" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:20:57 GMT, "Ron Kundla" >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> So would TMG be the equivalent of SeaChem Flourish and Flourish Iron?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, and I prefer using TMG, because I feel it gives me the iron and
>>> other traces in the right proportion.
>>>
>>> Chuck Gadd
>>> http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

[Ron Kundla]

Big Al's seems to have the best price on-line for the 500ml bottle,
which was going for $10.99 when I ordered some today.

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:36:05 -0800, Daniel Whiting >
wrote:

>Never mind.. Quick search of the obvious sources (ie. bigal's) and I
>find it quite easily..

[Sushil Prasad]

Would it make a difference if i added seachem iron tabs into gravel instead
of flourish iron in liquid form?
I am already doing flourish but my plants are suffering from lack of iron,
yellowish minute leaves on amazon sword.


"Ron Kundla" > wrote in message
...
> Big Al's seems to have the best price on-line for the 500ml bottle,
> which was going for $10.99 when I ordered some today.
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:36:05 -0800, Daniel Whiting >
> wrote:
>
> >Never mind.. Quick search of the obvious sources (ie. bigal's) and I
> >find it quite easily..
>