Thread: Iron help...
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Old 17-07-2003, 08:43 PM
Troy Bruder
 
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Default Iron help...

Leigh,

Since I have a 27 gallon, what would you recommend as a dosage of Flourish
to try and get things back on track??? They recommend 1-2 ml per WEEK for
60 gallons...

Troy




"LeighMo" wrote in message
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Here's the problem... I have a test kit which shows ZERO FE in the water
after doing this for at least a YEAR.. Over the last week or so, I have
added over 600 ml of FE to the water and still can't get a reading
(actually, I think it's reading .1 ppm right now)... What gives?!?!?


Iron test kits are notoriously inaccurate. Especially if you've got a Red

Sea
test kit. A lot of people complain they are worthless.

You don't say how much light you have over your tank, but it's possible

you
need a more complete fertilizer than you are using. I would switch to

Tropica
Mastergrow or Seachem Flourish. And don't bother measuring iron. Just

keep
adding more until the plants are nice and green.

Depending on how much light you have, and your fish load, you may need to

add
nitrate and phospate, too.



Leigh

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