EI and first week water changes

[Wisey]

Doing my initial setup tomorrow, so I know that I need to change 50% of my water daily for the first week. Do I flood the tank tomorrow, dose macro, change 50% the next day, dose micro, repeat through the week?

 

[Jose]

I would dose macros and micros right after the daily w.c.

 

[Wisey]

But they can't be dosed together without causing other issues as far as I have read?

 

[alto]

But they can't be dosed together without causing other issues as far as I have read?

Precipitation? or what are you thinking??? I'm lazy so I just dose Tropica 😎 then dump in the KH (potassium bicarbonate - as tap water is very soft)

If you're starting with 1,2-Grow, Tropica suggests half dosing ferts for the first few weeks (remember I'm lazy so I only dose when I remember ... I'm rewarded with not so rapid plant growth but also not much algae so not much motivation to tackle the laziness issue 😉)

 

[Wisey]

I was thinking precipitation if they were dosed same day.

I have an Anubis, a microsorum and an echinodorus, the rest are in vitro caps.

If someone could advise on dosing for the first week it would be appreciated, I'm setting up today.

 

[Andy Thurston]

I've been dosing macro and micro at the same time for over a year everything seem fine and plant are growing nice and healthy but the ph in my tank never gets above ph6 and is around ph 5.2 as lights come on, in harder water I think precipitation will be more of a problem

 

[Wisey]

Thanks, I'll chuck both in today then. My water is soft here in Aberdeen.

 

[Andy Thurston]

is everything in the tank "brand new"? If your using mature filter media and old substrate you can get away with water change every other day then you don't need to dose ferts at the same time
you can also make your own all in one mix, I'll try find you the link for the recipe

 

[Wisey]

Brand new, just flooded! Will start a journal later. Have seen the all in one mentioned before but was planning on using two dosing pumps to alternate, it's just this first week with the daily changes I'm a bit unsure about.