Hey guys,
I'm armed with a 500ml bottle of Excel, it arrived today.
I was thinking that rather than misting the plants etc, I might just try water column dosing first to see how that goes.
My tank is 100g, approximately 400L.
How does the following sound:
1. Do a 50% water change like normal.
2. Pour in 50mls Excel (5ml per 40L initial dosage)
3. The next day, and every following day pour in 30mls Excel (Triple strength dose, 5ml per 200L (standard daily dose) X 3)
4. Keep going until the bottle runs out (should last 450mls/30mls = 15 days), so this would last me the typical fortnight 'treatment'.
During this time I would continue everything else exactly as normal.
I don't have a UV filter so no need to worry about that.
I'm a bit uncertain as to whether to dose at lights on or at lights off? I'm really dosing this to knock out the red algae, not so much for the plants which are growing pretty well anyway. So I guess dosing it before I go to bed would be the best time so that it stays as strong as possible during the night without light weakening it?
Some pretty mixed reports on this stuff; some people see results within a few days, another guy didn't see any change at all. Perhaps some people have a dud (old) batch, perhaps some peoples circulation is very poor etc etc.
Scott.
I'm armed with a 500ml bottle of Excel, it arrived today.
I was thinking that rather than misting the plants etc, I might just try water column dosing first to see how that goes.
My tank is 100g, approximately 400L.
How does the following sound:
1. Do a 50% water change like normal.
2. Pour in 50mls Excel (5ml per 40L initial dosage)
3. The next day, and every following day pour in 30mls Excel (Triple strength dose, 5ml per 200L (standard daily dose) X 3)
4. Keep going until the bottle runs out (should last 450mls/30mls = 15 days), so this would last me the typical fortnight 'treatment'.
During this time I would continue everything else exactly as normal.
I don't have a UV filter so no need to worry about that.
I'm a bit uncertain as to whether to dose at lights on or at lights off? I'm really dosing this to knock out the red algae, not so much for the plants which are growing pretty well anyway. So I guess dosing it before I go to bed would be the best time so that it stays as strong as possible during the night without light weakening it?
Some pretty mixed reports on this stuff; some people see results within a few days, another guy didn't see any change at all. Perhaps some people have a dud (old) batch, perhaps some peoples circulation is very poor etc etc.
Scott.