"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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Koi-Lo My impersonator is Roy TJ Hauer aka Roy. wrote:
Supplementary "food" then. But without test kits there is no way to know
if
these "foods" are balanced or not, no way to know if there's too much P
for
the N available etc.

Somebody hasn't been paying attention.

Try google for "estimative index".

Or http://aquaria.net/articles/plants/barr-dose/
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OK, so you buy the chemicals and "estimate." That can work I suppose. I
bought the Seachem products. I followed the amounts on the containers of
Excel, Iron and trace elements. The new plants still slowly faded
away......
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