Spezial N - Nitrogen Fertilizer

[EdwinK]

Agree. But you need to know what goal you are trying to achieve, what are you trying to improve. If plants are in their top condition they wont become different.

 

[Eduard18]

I used Spezial N in my RIO 300 and it didn't affect the shrimps or the otos ; so you have green light
And I currently use Mikrospezial Flowgrow in my nano - the force awakens post - doesn't affect shrimps and otos, either

some exchanges in this thread makes it look like a matter of life and death ; and gave me some headaches

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[EdwinK]

OK, somehow majority of folks did not notice that any ferts with urea or amonium nitrate require soft, acidic water and good biological filtration to be harmless. Don't forget to start dosing in small amounts and watch closely for inhabitants behaviour.

 

[Eduard18]

True, in both tanks KH 4-5 and pH around 6.4

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[xandro007]

I use it to with very good results


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[aquascape1987]

OK so would I just replace my current macro with the spezial n or would I use this in addition?

 

[aquascape1987]

Edwin, my plants are in good quality at present but I wouldn't say the best that they could be. Especially my hc Cuba, which reading through this I can see that some people have had particularly good results specifically with that plant. That's really what I'm testing this in the hope of achieving.

 

[EdwinK]

OK so would I just replace my current macro with the spezial n or would I use this in addition?

You can replace your current macro but don't forget to dose phosphates as well.

 

[aquascape1987]

Would anyone know if there would be a problem in simply adding the spezial n (mixed separately) to my current ei dosing regime, WITHOUTstopping the ei macro. I.e dosing as a super EI and Spezial N combination reigime. That way I would assume that the plants would have an abundance of all nutrients, with a specific boost to the nitrogen available as well. I know some of the responses to this would be that it's not necessary, but I'm not interested in that for what it would cost... What I'm interested in is,whether or not this would have any negative effects on the plants or the fauna rather than just a positive on the plants? If no negative then the combination of both of these ferts dosed simultaneously would surely just provide a guaranteed abundance of all elements required... I am talking about the Spezial N minus the urea by the way plus standard EI

 

[EdwinK]

In case you are skipping the urea can't see the reason why you need Spezial N at all. I think that urea is the key ingredient in that traces because plants need less energy to withdraw the nitrogen and get additional source of carbon.

 

[aquascape1987]

Oh right... some others posting on here are using the mix minus urea.. If so what's the point??

 

[EdwinK]

Perhaps they tap water is soft and they need additional calcium and magnesium.

 

[aquascape1987]

So what do you think of the concept of adding in addition to standard EI? Would there be any negative effects to the plants or fauna?

 

[EdwinK]

I'm not a on the side of EI so for me is very difficult to mention any positive effect of this method except maybe a fast increase of plant biomass. And I don't like too many nitrogen in the water column because it somehow blocks the plant's ability to achieve a deep red colour.

 

[aquascape1987]

So what regime so you use to achieve good results with red plants then?

 

[EdwinK]

As source of nitrogen I dose only urea and 2 ppm/week PO4. Duckweed index helps me to estimate if I'm not overdosing with nitrogen. Half the recommended dose of micro traces and 0,03 ppm/week iron. Don't take this regime as an absolute truth because with different soil and water I would choose absolutely different approach.

 

[nayr88]

Hi is any one using this currently?
I'm dosing aqua rebel EI, Eisen and spezial N.

I'm dosing Co2 with the drop checker green and lights on and off
I have 12 x turn over and am doing weekly 60% water change.
I have high light that's in for 8 hours a dayand have medium plant density(planted about a month ago)

As per the website I'm dosing as per the website calculator around
1.2ml of N per day
1.8 of EI and
0.6 of eisen Mikro

I'm not really getting any growth over the past 3 weeks and have tons of brown fuzzy algae,

 

[Viet1357911]

I found this topic too late. I have hard time try many fert approaches, only lowering K can help my plant become better. If my K go high i will got calcium deficiency sign. Lowering K and add more calcium help me solve it