Re: [GSAS-Member] How do you dose your tanks

["Matt Staroscik" <matt@wrongcrowd.com>]

For about $100 you can get a diastolic pump to make continuous dosing of
stuff easy. Reef people use them for a lot of things.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Berg <bergatron@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> Alright I am coming out with it!: I am having a hell of a time  figuring
> out
> the proper amounts of ferts to dose my tank.  I have been dealing with
> plants dyeing and different forms of algae for the last few months.  My
> co2
> is in the proper range so my assumption is that my nutrients are not
> correct.  I try to do a water change once a week sometimes once every
> other
> week.  During the water change I dose with the flourish line of macro and
> trace fertilizers. I roughly dose per their recommendations on the side of
> the bottle.  For the most part, I feel like I am blindly doseing the
> tank.... not good.  I'm not going to lie, I want to make this as easy as
> possible. I don't want to have to test everything/dose every day.  I have
> been doing a little bit of reading online today and I found this page:
> http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/EI.htm (Estimative Index by Tom Burr)
> which
> seems to make the dosing schedule a bit easier.  This is sort of what I am
> looking for.  The only down side to EI is that it require me to dose
> _every
> day_!  Is there an easier way?  What do you guys do?  Thanks for the help
> in
> advance.
>
>
> Berg
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