German plant guy

[Mescalero]

Hi all, while searching the web for easy and practical ways of fertilizing I stumbled upon Darrel's duckweed index, almost unknown or at least not very popular at all in this country. Some folks mix their own ferts, some might dose by eyeballing of some sorts....most go by lots of testing water and adding up to certain levels of elements.
So did I but with ~20 planted tanks it doesn't really work out well.

Happy to be here and learn!

Jan

 

[Teleos]

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[G H Nelson]

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[dw1305]

Hi all,
Welcome to UKAPS,

I stumbled upon Darrel's duckweed index, .....

I'm pleased you found it, I'm probably absurdly proud of it. It isn't exactly mine, it is a bit of a <"cut and paste job really">, from multiple sources.

After some research I found that a lot of the content I'd posted actually already existed in two books on fish-keeping, Diana Walstad's <"The Ecology of the Planted Aquarium"> and Horst and Kipper's <"The Optimum Aquarium">, so it was more a case that you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

Some folks mix their own ferts, some might dose by eyeballing of some sorts....most go by lots of testing water and adding up to certain levels of elements.
So did I but with ~20 planted tanks it doesn't really work out well.

That is one advantage of a visual method, <"you can scan a lot of information relatively quickly">.

almost unknown or at least not very popular at all in this country.

I know a few German Apistogramma keepers are using it: <"What to do now?">.

cheers Darrel

 

[Cazza]

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[sparkyweasel]

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[hypnogogia]

Hi @Mescalero, willkommen bei UKAPS. 👋