Tobi said:
Hi,
i will not go into the details again guys 😉. You can read everything in the posts before.
Especially regarding Clive I do not get you man. Have you read any sentence from my former posts? Is my English that bad?
HAHA
Plenty of folks have long dosed poorly and not enough traces, if they try something, they often pay more attention and keep up on things more. This has little to do with the dosing, make up etc and is much more the general care and watching of the aquarist. Still, for anyone that is limiting something in their own tank, whether it's K+, traces, etc...NH4.............all you have to do is add more of that one thing and see the effects. Nutrients are VERY easy to test and manipulate. So folks can certain explore once they have a nice growth and a nice tank to begin with. Only when you have a nice tank to start with, can you have any sense of a control tank to test any treatment against, a semi poorly growign tank suddenly comes into full bloom.......maybe it was 5 different things that helped?
Hard to say or be sure.
But if you have a nice tank to start with, then do a treatment, and are left with the same tank after........then the treatment really had no effect. There is a big difference between the two cases above.
I have never said that any system fails ... i have only told that some people have problems with certain systems and maybe need other options.
True........
I think why they fail and how to answer the question as to why something works, does not......... is much more important and useful knowledge than mere mechanistic "do this to cure your problem if A, B, C and D do not work".
Do you agree?
I do the same with GH booster.....maybe it was the CaSO4? Maybe it was the K2SO4? Maybe it was the MgSO4?
Maybe it was a general increase in TDS?
I cannot say either :silent:
Still, when added, it rules out a few things.
Same here.
From there, more questions can be explored.
That's useful.
And... I was never here for big discussions, just for sharing. Feel free to test the mix and make your own decision. Wheter it's related to K+ or some other synergetic effect.
But please remember that when using this mix that you maybe need to adjust the micronutrient dosage and/or the K+ dosage. There are some tanks that need more K+ than others. Especially when using the Spezial N for a longer time it maybe neccessary to dose a little bit more K+.
Best regards
Tobi
True, we can always adjust any mix. Most do. ADA, you, me anyone pretty much, we all adjust and stweak.
Maybe it's something else, eg, they where limiting things to begin with, and now are paying more attention to the tank(human bais factors, of which, there are a great many), maybe it's a nicer balance between NH4 and NO3, maybe they did not add a complete dosing routine, hard to say.
Problem is, many try something and then make the leap and say far more than the evidence/results suggest, without 1st seeing if the alternatives are true as well. Or if they can falsify them.......
Or we might also target the sediment also, and add a non limiting supply of ferts there as well for the roots.
Such methods, dosing etc..........all have one thing in common..........they provide excess nutrients so the plants are not limited. This hits a much larger target than say PMDD which limited PO4 and assume there was ample amounts in the tap, fish waste etc. Soils are easy also. It might be just there are few folks using soil + water column ferts together in Europe?? Many that use soil often avoid the water column, thinking that it is the cause of all their woes........Many water column folks have issues using soils, so it's hard to make that leap and get folsk to do both methods. I believe that would cure more so called issues for plant growth, then folks could focus more on good CO2 management.
So.......have you considered a specific soil to be made?
Many do the MTS, worm casting etc here, or they go with commercial brands etc (ADA mostly in the USA, Up Aqua is popular in Oz, Asia etc). It would seem to be a wise NEXT move in development for fert routine.
