aquarium dosing help

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DoctaQ

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Dec 12, 2008
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i plan on getting ferts from http://www.aquariumfertilizer.com/index.asp?Option1=cats&Edit=2&EditU=1&Regit=2
into a high light pressurized co2 tank 20 gal long (in my signature)

what do you reccomend for a dosing schedule? i suppose i plan on dosing the 1/8th tsp of potassium nitrate and 1/32nd tsp of potassium phosphate, 3 times a week
should i worry about iron and what would you reccomend for that? how important is the trace as well?

can i mix the potassium nitrate and phosphate together , iron and trace as well? i was under the impression that two ferts ( i forget which two) will precipitate
 
it's iron and phosphate that precip.

i dump all mine in a pill organizer. if they're dry precip should not be an issue in the tank. it's just not concentrated enough at that point.

the one i would consider not dosing according to the post by john n. in the sticky in this section would be k2so4 (potassium). it should be supplied sufficiently by dosing kh2po4 and kno3. you could dose iron too if you'd like but it's in plantex as well.
 
absolutely
 
coach_z said:
Solutions, IMHO, are a pain in the rear to make and to dose. Dry dosing so so much easier.
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dry dosing is dumping dry fertilizers into the current in the tank as opposed to making mixes in liquid form to dose later.

kh2po4, kno3, k2so4, plantex, gh booster, etc. can all be dry dosed.
 
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