I was currently testing the osmocote plus for over the month or so, I added handful of osmocote deep into the aqua soil just to see what will happen. I already knew what was likely to happen because I have done a similar experiment before. But this one was more intense compare to the last one.
First week or two nothing happened because TDS was still reading low 30s then it started to go up, it was 150 over night and algae startred to appear eventually, NH4 and NO3 reading were quite off the chart.
As you can see the tank was taken over by algae and cyanobacteria. The tank was still reading high TDS after multiple water changes, only recently the TDS shows less Increase and there appear to be less algae.
I did not add any fertilizer to the water and only used 100% RO water for this experiment. Several plant melted away during this experiment.
In conclusion, I would recommend not to use root tabs, maybe one pellet here and there is fine but I don't recommend adding hand full. This experiment was mainly just to show you guys what to expect.
Now I have two choices, either wait for osmocote to complete its realese or redo the entire tank. The aqua soil must be completely charged with nutrients though 😄
First week or two nothing happened because TDS was still reading low 30s then it started to go up, it was 150 over night and algae startred to appear eventually, NH4 and NO3 reading were quite off the chart.
As you can see the tank was taken over by algae and cyanobacteria. The tank was still reading high TDS after multiple water changes, only recently the TDS shows less Increase and there appear to be less algae.
I did not add any fertilizer to the water and only used 100% RO water for this experiment. Several plant melted away during this experiment.
In conclusion, I would recommend not to use root tabs, maybe one pellet here and there is fine but I don't recommend adding hand full. This experiment was mainly just to show you guys what to expect.
Now I have two choices, either wait for osmocote to complete its realese or redo the entire tank. The aqua soil must be completely charged with nutrients though 😄