Plant fertilizers

[pitchblack]

hey all just wondering what plant fertilizers people use????

[duck]

I use
aqua sonic substrate ferts.
Flourish.
A little flourish excel.
Phosphate.
potassium nitrate.
Iron.
A little Flourish potassium.

[Tryhard]

I tend to use dino dung its alow release and looks natural in the tank.

[DR.V]

u chuck all those ferts into your tank ????

[DR.V]

ah... just looked at your tank duck, on the other thread, looks GRRRRRREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAATTTT!!!

[pitchblack]

do you use co2 duck???????

[duck]

Sorry i should of mention that i do use CO2 diy through a reactor.

[duck]

I should also add that i have 6 T5's running, 4 daylight 6500k and 2 coolwhite's total 168 watts works out around the 2.5WPG.

[duck]

u chuck all those ferts into your tank ????

Yes but not all at once.
to give you a basic and (sometime's i do forget to add the stuff) run down on my ferts regime goes like this
At WC i add phosphate's and potassium nitrate and substarte ferts and potassium.
Next day i add flourish then on the 3 day
Then on the 4 day i add alittle more phosphate's and potassium.
iron every other week if not more time in between.
The only thing i test for is nitrate every now and then to give me an idea how thing's a travelling,If they a getting a bit high i won't dose nitrate.

[sleepers]

In a simpler tank containing discus/goramis, two powerful standard filters (an aquafin 70 and an eheim 90) any advice on what I can use to fertilize the swords I've just put in there?

Also, with carbon, do you recommend the dissolved powder stuff or is it only good through an actual filter?