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How often/much iron do you add?
Hey all! Quick question: How much iron/potassium supplement do you add to your planted tanks? I've got a youngish, planted (about 16 species) 30-gal with 80 watts (400 Lux) broad-spectrum fluorescent lighting, DIY CO2, and a light to moderate fauna load with a latterite enriched substrate. This tank is just starting to really take off and I'm finding it hard to keep the iron concentration up. I'm having to add up to between 10 and 15 mL per day of (pick your favorite iron/potasium supplement) Leaf Zone (0-0-3), which instructs 5mL per 10gal once a week. Just curious how hungry some of your well planted tanks are. Perhaps I've got something that just eats it up, like my Hygrophilia corymbosa or perhaps Ceratophyllum demersum or Aponogeton crispus? Anyway, what is the consumption on your tanks? -Doug -- Spammers be DAMNED! Friendlies: change notmail to hotmail to reply. Just keeping the web bots and crawlers from filling our inboxes with junk! May they eternally spam addresses that swamp their servers with bounced mail! |
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How often/much iron do you add?
"Doug" wrote in message ... Hey all! Quick question: How much iron/potassium supplement do you add to your planted tanks? I've got a youngish, planted (about 16 species) 30-gal with 80 watts (400 Lux) broad-spectrum fluorescent lighting, DIY CO2, and a light to moderate fauna load with a latterite enriched substrate. This tank is just starting to really take off and I'm finding it hard to keep the iron concentration up. I'm having to add up to between 10 and 15 mL per day of (pick your favorite iron/potasium supplement) Leaf Zone (0-0-3), which instructs 5mL per 10gal once a week. Just curious how hungry some of your well planted tanks are. Perhaps I've got something that just eats it up, like my Hygrophilia corymbosa or perhaps Ceratophyllum demersum or Aponogeton crispus? Anyway, what is the consumption on your tanks? -Doug I found it impossible to keep my iron levels at the correct amount (0.3 ppm) using just LeafZone, I had to supplement it with Hagen's "Plant Grow - Iron Enriched" (0.15-0-0). For my tank I now use 3/4 LeafZone and 1/4 PlantGrow once a week and my iron levels stay spot on. It should be noted that my tank is "low light" at only 2 watts per gallon. If I use PlantGrow by itself my iron levels get too high. |
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How often/much iron do you add?
"Doug" wrote in message ... Hey all! Quick question: How much iron/potassium supplement do you add to your planted tanks? I've got a youngish, planted (about 16 species) 30-gal with 80 watts (400 Lux) broad-spectrum fluorescent lighting, DIY CO2, and a light to moderate fauna load with a latterite enriched substrate. This tank is just starting to really take off and I'm finding it hard to keep the iron concentration up. I'm having to add up to between 10 and 15 mL per day of (pick your favorite iron/potasium supplement) Leaf Zone (0-0-3), which instructs 5mL per 10gal once a week. Just curious how hungry some of your well planted tanks are. Perhaps I've got something that just eats it up, like my Hygrophilia corymbosa or perhaps Ceratophyllum demersum or Aponogeton crispus? Anyway, what is the consumption on your tanks? -Doug I found it impossible to keep my iron levels at the correct amount (0.3 ppm) using just LeafZone, I had to supplement it with Hagen's "Plant Grow - Iron Enriched" (0.15-0-0). For my tank I now use 3/4 LeafZone and 1/4 PlantGrow once a week and my iron levels stay spot on. It should be noted that my tank is "low light" at only 2 watts per gallon. If I use PlantGrow by itself my iron levels get too high. |
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How often/much iron do you add?
Doug, generally 2-3x a the recommened amount is a common range for
folks with CO2/good light. I'd add 7mls 3x a week. Don't bother testing. Search for testing for iron on this and other forums, it's a rather in depth issue and iron water cheosirty is complicatd to say the last and the test kits do not tell what you need to related to plant health. The eye ball works better than a test kit here. Keep everything else in good shape: CO2/GH/NO3/K/PO4 then plpay with this variable. Adding X amount per tank volume so many times a week yields the best results, give 3-4 weeks before trying another dosage etc. I've done this in the past, TMG, Flourish, Sera etc all are pretty close. At max light, 6w/gal, the max uptake/needed for good growth was 5 mls dosed 3x a week. Few folks will go beyond this light value. Excess does not harm at lower light. Test kits vary considerably, but volume in mls x frequency x tank size is a stable parameter and is constant. Regards, Tom Barr Doug wrote in message ... Hey all! Quick question: How much iron/potassium supplement do you add to your planted tanks? I've got a youngish, planted (about 16 species) 30-gal with 80 watts (400 Lux) broad-spectrum fluorescent lighting, DIY CO2, and a light to moderate fauna load with a latterite enriched substrate. This tank is just starting to really take off and I'm finding it hard to keep the iron concentration up. I'm having to add up to between 10 and 15 mL per day of (pick your favorite iron/potasium supplement) Leaf Zone (0-0-3), which instructs 5mL per 10gal once a week. Just curious how hungry some of your well planted tanks are. Perhaps I've got something that just eats it up, like my Hygrophilia corymbosa or perhaps Ceratophyllum demersum or Aponogeton crispus? Anyway, what is the consumption on your tanks? -Doug |
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