Advice of fertilize products

[Federal]

Hi, members,

Which one is more effective for just started aquascape? I am planted Hemianthus callitrichoides.

• Dennerle V30 complete
• JBL Flora Ferropol
• Tropica Premium Nutrition
• Tropica Specialised Nutrition

Thanks in advance!

 

[_Maq_]

While I never use commercial blends, I can tell you that all the mentioned above are not bad, neither they present a guaranteed success. It depends, among other things, on the mineral contents of your water.

 

[PARAGUAY]

Tropica Specialised is the one l go to , Some of the Dennerle are part of a system were you add other nutrients seperatly but it mentions complete, the one mentionedThis is expensive though compared to say Solufeed ,which l will be trying sooner or later

 

[John q]

Which one is more effective.

• Dennerle V30 complete
• JBL Flora Ferropol
• Tropica Premium Nutrition
• Tropica Specialised Nutrition

Out of the 4 mentioned; Tropica Specialised, simply because its the only "Complete" fertilizer in the list, the others are basically blends of potassium and micro nutrients. Aka ~ expensive water.

Jbl Ferropol.
K fertilizer 1 liquid, nutrient content: 1.00 % K2O. With micro-nutrients: 0.0003 % B; 0.25 % MgO; 0.0002 % Co; 0.0002 % Mo. As complex of EDTA: 0.0009 % Cu; 0.001 % Zn; 0.1 % Fe; 0.0024 % Mn;

Dennerle V30 Complete.
K-fertilizer solution 3 with trace nutrients, with complexing agents DTPA, EDTA, HEDTA
3 % K2O water-soluble potassium oxide
0.024 % B total boron = water-soluble boron
0.003 %* Co total cobalt = water-soluble cobalt
0.006 %* Cu total copper = water-soluble copper
0.35 %* Fe total iron = water-soluble iron
0.15 %* Mn total manganese = water-soluble manganese
0.012 % Mo total molybdenum = water-soluble molybdenum
0.008 %* Zn total zinc = water-soluble zinc

Secondary constituents: 0.27 % N total nitrogen, 1.8 % S water-soluble sulphur, 0.75 % MgO water-soluble magnesium oxide, 0.32 % Na watersoluble sodium, 4 % organic matter.

 

[eminor]

Tropica specialized nutrition use NH4NO3 which make the plants to get incredibly green, like there is some gloss on the leaves, SD to 4K. never seen that using KNO3 & Urea, urea is better than KNO3 for me though

 

[MichaelJ]

Especially for soft to very soft water, slightly acidic tanks I can highly recommend Tropica Specialized. I've been using it exclusively in one of my tanks (2.5 GH, 0.5 KH, 6.2 pH) densely planted 150L low tech for over a year now. In my case I only dose every 10-14 days targeting 1.25 ppm N, 0.1 ppm P, 1 ppm K, 0.06 ppm Fe - very lean - for me a 750 ml bottle cost $30 usd and will last about 18 months - not bad at all. For larger high-tech tanks following a more aggressive dosing regime it might be a bit expensive in the long run.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[eminor]

Especially for soft to very soft water, slightly acidic tanks I can highly recommend Tropica Specialized. I’m using this exclusively in one of my tanks - densely planted 150L low tech - in my case I only dose every 10-14 days targeting 1.25 ppm N - very lean - for me a 750 ml bottle cost $30 usd and will last about 18 months - not bad at all. For larger high-tech tanks with more aggressive dosing it might be a bit expensive in the long run.

Cheers,
Michael

Yes, for small tank it don't worth bothering with powder, i also use ro water (0 °dKH - 6 °dGH) which is way better than tap water, plant definetly like soft way more