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PMDD Question
I am sure noone has ever asked this question here (kidding).
Does anyone have a recipe for PMDD and where to get the ingredients (such as how the recipe translates to something I can buy at Wal-mart)? Believe it or not, this town has NO decent pet stores to purchase stuff at. The only thing in town is the obligitory pet store at the mall. |
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PMDD Question
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 10:27:21 -0600, "Robert Tucker"
wrote: I am sure noone has ever asked this question here (kidding). Does anyone have a recipe for PMDD and where to get the ingredients (such as how the recipe translates to something I can buy at Wal-mart)? Believe it or not, this town has NO decent pet stores to purchase stuff at. The only thing in town is the obligitory pet store at the mall. Well you may or may not be able to get the Potassium Nitrate at Wal-Mat, and you may or may not need the Nitrate. You want to test your Nitrates before you add more. As for the rest, the trace mix is the hardest. It seems that the Plantex is very hard to find in the United States. Potassium Sulfate can be found at http://www.litemanu.com Epsom Salts can be found at Wal-Mart that adds the Magnesium. You can also pick up Boric Acid at Wal-Mart for the Boron. That said I have found that for any tank with around or over 2 watts per gallon and CO2 injection that the PPMD mixture (Sears and Conlin) formula doesn't quite cut it. I have mixed up a batch of trace mix using the Plantex and Boric Acid. I add Nitrates as needed separately, the same for Phosphates and Potassium. I add these as dry powders most of the time but always for the Potassium as it's impossible to make a stock mix that will add enough Potassium without using 100's of ml of mix. I also use Seachem Flourish as my main fertilizer. Once in a while when I have a hard time with my Iron I will use Seachem Flourish Iron. Every tank is different. You need to adjust your ferts to your tank for best results. I know I'm dosing about 5x the recommended amount of Flourish and about the same on the trace mix. And don't forget that the Sears and Conlin paper and mix was designed with the idea that limiting Phosphates would limit algae. |
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