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I have heard about people freezing osmocote into sticks then placing them under the substrate, must be cheaper than gel caps ...

I don't know yet i'll see how they go with just the nutrients from the fish waste and tapwater.

Java fern will be the main plant so I dont think a soil capped substrate would be beneficial

I know I could try any off the shelf ferts but alot of these offer poor value for money compared to buying the chemials and if I started getting nitate defficiany I could always add extra nitrate. I'll see how the plants go without ferts and in a month or two i'll go to half EI dosing.

The link was the water quality report for my area, it said I have hard water, pH of 7.47, nitrate at 38.08 mg/l, iron at 10.25 micrograms per litre. One of the reasons I dont want to dose nitrates is that im only going with lowlight plants and low light intensity so I dont think the plants will...

What dry ferts would you suggest? I dont really want to dose nitrates as my tapwater contains too much of them already, this is a water report of my postcode- http://www.stwater.co.uk/category/536?postcode=tf74ht&btnWaterQualitySubmit=

Tank is 200x50x70 so about 700l but there is a built in filter box on either side so I measured it wilthout filters and its 180x50x70 and 630l. Either way what ferts would you recommend for a tank full of java fern with moderate lighting (either 120w or 240w of t8 lights). I plan to add crinium...