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  1. Ed Seeley

    TNC GH Boost

    Unless you're keeping sensitive wild Tanganyikans then any pH above 7 will be ok. The easiest way to raise it is to add aragonite into your filter somewhere which will slowly dissolve and raise the KH and GH. BYW GH doesn't effect pH it's KH that does. You can raise this using bicarb.
  2. Ed Seeley

    ADA Liquid fertilizers

    If you do a search here and look through a few threads you'll find one where Tom Barr talked about making them. Or detailed why you probably shouldn't bother but just stick to EI dosing.
  3. Ed Seeley

    KS04

    Thanks mate, glad it works for you. :D
  4. Ed Seeley

    KS04

    That's my mix Billy and I add the extra potassium for two reasons. First I use RO water remineralised with RO salts and had a problem with pin-holes in some leaves when I switched from Kent's product to another company's. When I added the extra potassium this disappeared. Since switching back...
  5. Ed Seeley

    when to start dosing

    You need to measure the CO2 level using a drop checker with 4dKH solution in so that when it's green you have 30ppm CO2. The bubble rate needed to do this will vary wildly from tank to tank.
  6. Ed Seeley

    Potassium Nitrate help

    Rely on your dosing calcuations rather than the test kits. Nitrate tests kits especially can give all sorts of inaccurate readings as every stage of the process needs to be done in almost laboratory conditions to get an accurate reading! Also bear in mind that as you add nitrate your plants...
  7. Ed Seeley

    fish eating root tabs?

    I've had fish pecking at the old fertiliser tablets I used to use years ago and they never seemed to have any problems from them. If you're worried then just shove them under the substrate so the fish can't get at them!
  8. Ed Seeley

    useing ie,why am i geting ploblems....beginer.....

    Or use the quote cutton top right! Just make sure you don't delete the parts in brackets at either end of the text!
  9. Ed Seeley

    Fertilising for the first time.

    I always add both ferts on the same day to the tank too. (In fact, if I remember, I dose them both every day). As Andy's said they aren't a problem once dispersed in the tank but you should never mix them together in the bottle unless you take steps to stop the reaction (See the threads on...
  10. Ed Seeley

    Easy Carbo and Flourish Excel

    I've used EasyCarbo at double dosage with my shrimp and they've been fine so I don't think that's the problem Clark. AFAIK they are the same, even in concentration and I believe the dosage rates are the same for both products too. The only difference was the price; EasyCarbo was cheaper!
  11. Ed Seeley

    PMDD & MKP Dosing - I think I am overdoing it...

    I'd sort the CO2 out first and then see how things are with the plants. If you still have yellowish tips on the plants then you can try upping the ferts. It won't cause any harm if you do.
  12. Ed Seeley

    PMDD & MKP Dosing - I think I am overdoing it...

    BBA is often linked to low or erratic CO2. You need to find out the ppm of your CO2 in your tank! If you can't buy 4dKH water then you need to make some. I used RO water and a KH test kit to make mine. It may not be as accurate as the bought stuff, but it's more than good enough for our...
  13. Ed Seeley

    GH/magnesium/calcium & KH/potassium

    With a low KH your pH should be lower to start with. I'd be investigating why your pH was at 8.5 with no CO2 rather than looking at CO2 to solve that. Bear in mind you never have no CO2 in the water and the only effect CO2 has is to lower the pH. pH should never rise above the usual (non-CO2)...
  14. Ed Seeley

    GH/magnesium/calcium & KH/potassium

    injecting CO2 doesn't affect whether a pH crash occurs. Injecting CO2 at 30ppm will lower the pH by around 1 degree, all that differs will be the starting pH which is governed by the other factors that govern pH in the tank. I only inject CO2 during daylight hours so my pH swings back and...
  15. Ed Seeley

    Help, I'm losing the algae battle.....

    You don't mention CO2. Have you got a stable 30ppm during the daylight hours? I find a dose of EasyCarbo (or Excel) often helps by spot treating the worst areas. You might also be best removing the worst affected leaves too. Have you got some algae grazers too?
  16. Ed Seeley

    PMDD

    All you have to do is dose the Potassium phosphate separately as the others are in your PMDD mix according to its recipe. You'll just have to add the phosphate from a separate tub as it'll cause the iron to precipitate if it's mixed together. You can still dose them on the same day (I do) as...
  17. Ed Seeley

    TPN+ with carbon sponge still in filter?

    In a planted tank carbon is best used only as a short term treatment if you have stained tank water or similar that you want to remove. I'd remove it and you can put another normal sponge in or just leave that area empty.
  18. Ed Seeley

    are these doses right..!!!

    I'm sure that's not what you meant because it's really not true. Lots of things effect pH. Various organic acids produced by biological processes and coming out of certain types of wood, peat and substrate will lower. You then also get bases that come from various rocks and gravels that will...
  19. Ed Seeley

    Tropica Plant Nutrition + How do you dose it?

    The siesta idea was a bit of a fad in my opinion. One idea behind it was that it allowed CO2 levels to increase during the dark period that the plants could then use when the lights were on. The other was that plants didn't mind having two short daylength periods whereas algae hated it. To be...
  20. Ed Seeley

    pointers on liquid ferts

    I'd dose straight away even with Aquasoil and PS. If you want a simple dosing system then Tropica Plant Nutrition Plus seems to be the best all in one solution. You can dose it daily and at much higher rates than the instructions state.
  21. Ed Seeley

    plants ?pearl following water change

    I have heard that too, although I have heard the opposite as well! I've never seen any conclusive evidence either way.
  22. Ed Seeley

    plants ?pearl following water change

    If you're using tap water then it is colder than your tank water when you add it. Colder liquids hold more dissolved oxygen and as this is added to the tank and warms all that oxygen (and some other gases too) cannot remain in solution. This leads to superstauration at worst that can harm...
  23. Ed Seeley

    idiots guide for me please

    I agree with Clive. I used Easycarbo daily with above 30ppm CO2 when I first set up my tank to make sure algae never got a foothold and it certainly didn't do any harm (except to my wallet maybe! :lol: ). I still add doses after water changes and after trimming/removing plants in case...
  24. Ed Seeley

    Which plants to use fert tabs on?

    You've got two fairly easy options IMO. When I was setting up my new tank I used the mulm that had collected in the base of my Ehiem filter on another tank. All I did was decant the water off and that left me with fairly concentrated mulm. Or you can use a gravel cleaner to get all the mulm out...
  25. Ed Seeley

    Substrate and ferts

    With my RO water I just reminerlaise the new water when doing water changes. The stuff I use to remineralise is either Seachem's Equilibrium or Kent's RO Right and they are my soruces of Mg, Ca and also add a load of Potassium too! I think you'd be fine simply dosing the Mg with your new RO...
  26. Ed Seeley

    Substrate and ferts

    Some guys on APC have their Aquasoil tanks set up for years and the plant growth is amazing. They are adding more ferts though I imagine after a year or so as the ADA range uses stronger micro nutrient ferts as time passes. pH changes caused by CO2 don't seem to effect fish. I have had tanks...
  27. Ed Seeley

    Fertilising for beginners

    The link in Clive's post works for me. Just click on it and it should take you to the thread. Depending on which browser you use though it may try to launch it in a new window and if you've got a pop-up blocker on that might stop it working? Anyway the thread's called, "EI daily methods or...
  28. Ed Seeley

    forum convert needs fert help

    I don't think you need to unplug the cable; it's just that they don't really seem to have any benefit and therefore aren't needed. If it's helping with your heating then you may as well leave it on as it will at least keep them substrate a little warmer. At the moment your lighting is under 2...
  29. Ed Seeley

    dry ferts not dissolving

    See here RO Right's a powder to remineralise RO water. Bascially it adds magnesium, calcium and a few other things. Basically it does the same as your GH booster.
  30. Ed Seeley

    dry ferts not dissolving

    I always have problems with the Equilibrium I use with my RO water dissolving very slowly, however I find that RO Right dissolves almost instantly so you could switch to that from your GH booster.
  31. Ed Seeley

    How does Plant Biomass affect EI Dosing

    It was Jeremy's Iwagima - definitely not Jeff's! :lol: I have to say that while Tom Barr has done excellent research on the use of mineral nutrient fertilisers in planted tanks and found results that support his hypotheses; I can't help feeling something's missing here. I have initiated EI...
  32. Ed Seeley

    Who doses what?

    I am currently just dosing trace and Potassium in my new tank and very little in all the others.
  33. Ed Seeley

    Is Brighty K a Bright Idea?

    As this thread is going nowhere I am locking it. I have also edited some more posts as I feel some of the language used was, at best, misguided. Keep things civil. This is supposed to be an open, honest and polite exchange of views, not somewhere to have a go at people.
  34. Ed Seeley

    DIY ADA Ferts

    According to the ADA catalogue; Step 1 has lots of trace elements and some iron Step 2 has trace elements and lots of iron Step 3 has trace elements, iron and potassium The only guide to amounts is that it has one circle if they're present and two to indicate higher levels. K has lots of...
  35. Ed Seeley

    Name the deficiency

    The translucent bits of the Java fern are the new growth and that's completely normal. Everything seems to growing nicely! AS for the DIY CO2 I only had a problem on my cube when I put a whole teaspoon of yeast in! If you mix it up with 1/2 teaspoon then you should have no problems IME. I...
  36. Ed Seeley

    Tropica Plant Nutrition +

    Oh my God yeah! What a nupty mistake! That's what happens when you don't really pay attention to what you're doing doesn't it?! Thought the numbers seemed wrong but never bothered to check it. Sorry :oops:
  37. Ed Seeley

    Tropica Plant Nutrition +

    PPM means parts per 1,000,000; percentages are parts per 100. Therefore just divide the percentages by 10,000 to get ppm. Of course you'll then have to work out the ppm of the dry ferts to compare them to the amounts in the fertiliser, as they will be the weight of the whole compound. You...
  38. Ed Seeley

    Ferts Help

    IMO, I think you really need to look at adding some CO2 first. I use simlar water conditions to you in all my tanks and have pressurised CO2 in one and DIY CO2 in another. Both are fine. In fact my water is usually less than 1dKH. Please bear in mind that if you up the light you'll need to...
  39. Ed Seeley

    Growing plants like HC and glosso without adding nutrients

    I don't quite understand the thrust of your arguement here Clive. Plant roots are the primary method for most plants to access nutrients and as, as far as I am aware, all aquatic plants are terrestrial in evolutionary origin and are surely therefore mainly the same. Plant roots are superbly...
  40. Ed Seeley

    Ferts.

    Forgot about the KSO4! I remember when I was trying to see if I could make my own GH booster cheaper as I couldn't get RO Right. Interestingly I've had a few issues with stunting in my cube. I'll see if stopping with the Equilibrium has an effect.
  41. Ed Seeley

    Ferts.

    Interesting about the Equilibrium. Isn't it just a mix of mainly CaSO4 and MgSO4 so therefore the high sulphates? Did you find they caused any problems James? I am going to have to go back to RO Right I think! I found it so much more user friendly. At the minute I'm using pure RO, but only...
  42. Ed Seeley

    Ferts.

    People generally use the term 'organic nitrate' to mean Nitrate that has been produced by the breakdown of ammonia produced by fish and other things. As you say, not the correct use of the word really. If I remember corectly (can't find the paper again!), the scientific paper Tom refers to...
  43. Ed Seeley

    EI Ferts - Where do you get yours?

    I'm sure I remember on APC someone talking about getting ferts with a percentage purity quoted on them as their ferts were agricutural in origin and not as pure. If you have got that then all you have to do is work out the percentage and up the amount used appropriately. E.g. if they were 80%...
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