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I have some plants in my Tank & i would like to give them some Plant Food. I would like to know if anyone uses this brand of Plant Food. The name is Plant Pack & it has 3 bottles with Flourish, Flourish Iron & Flourish Excel. The make is Seachem. Anyone can help me, please.




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Jason,

The flourish brands are supposedly pretty good. But irregardless of how good a brand the fertilzer is the real question is do your plants need it ? Fertilizer should only be used under certain circumstances , you may feel using fertilizer is for their benefit but if they don't need it you may be doing more harm then good in the long run.

Before the question of whether or not the fertilizer should be used or is appropiate we need to know what lighting you have , species of plant and whether or not you have Co2 or if there are any signs of deficiency. If you are not using C02 and there is no signs of poor plant health adding un-needed ferts could lead to algae problems.Remember without sufficient light and carbon you can't push plant growth with ferts.

Flourish Excel is a source of Carbon and should be safe to use.

Excess Iron can lead to thread algae.

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The lighting of my tank is 3 x 20W & 3 x 25W tubes.
No, i don't use any Co2 in my tank & the tank is 320L.
The Tank substrate is Sand & yes, i can see some poor plant health.
I don't know the name of the plants, but i can send you a picture if you want.
The plant just runs the roots underneath the sand & every 3/4cm a small plant pops up.
Thanks alot. jason.



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Poor plant growth might be helped by a general fert such as regular flourish. I think the sand may be causing you some trouble unless you've got alot of MTS in the tank it's likely crushing the roots.

And if my math is correct you havent got much more than 1wpg (I've got a sleep deprived brain though so dont blame me) which might be causeing lack of plant happiness.

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According to my calculations (being European I'm probably more familiar with litres then Babel) you have almost 2 watts per gallon.

Yes a picture or description of the syptoms would help, then you could add the lacking nutrient.

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Here are 2 photos of my plants & the problems.

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/s8xi5heh/detail?.dir=/6c29&.dnm=3e0f.jpg&.src=ph

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/s8xi5heh/detail?.dir=/6c29&.dnm=8681.jpg&.src=ph



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Anyone identify this plant & an help me?.
Thanks in advance.



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looks like dwarf sag maybe?

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It is dwarf saggitaria, and that's the way it propagates by doing runners beneath the substrate, if you let it it can even do so many that you'll en up having a carpet.

IMO if the plant is doing runners, then it does not need any fertilizers. Specially saggitarias, they are really slow growers and they only do them when they are in optimal conditions, maybe if you can do a picture of a close-up of the leaves we can see what is the problem, usually they are such slow growers that they are victims of many kinds of algae.

From your pictures, the plant resembles sagittaria subulata but it may be echinodorus tenellus. I noted a couple of things going through your album:

Your substrate is thin, it should be a minimum of 2 inches in depth to 4 inches in depth for plants. Some of your plants are potted in clay pots. This is an excellent way to provide a nutrient rich substrate for specimen plants without mucking up your aquarium substrate.

The shot of your aquarium does not appear to have 2 watts per gallon as the tank interior is dim.

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Here are 2 close pictures of the Plants. There is some Algae on the leaves. Any help please?.

Thanks in advance.

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/s8xi5heh/detail?.dir=/6c29&.dnm=e824.jpg&.src=ph
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/s8xi5heh/detail?.dir=/6c29&.dnm=1772.jpg&.src=ph





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by the shape of the leaves it is Saggitaria Subulata,

and you do have a BBA (black beard algae) growth if you look close these algae attaches to the sides of the leave.

I've been fighting it myself and all i've acomplished so far with water changes is stop the growth but not erradicated.

No not add ferts, the only thing taking them will be the BBA.


Last edited by Falstaf at 30-Jan-2005 13:59

Thanks alot for all your reply's & help.




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