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

[Bryan Nichols <b_monius_funk@yahoo.com>]

I use EI and it's not hard. 

I just pour it in when I feed my fish in the morning. :)

In reality, I only do the macro half of EI and I use Flouirsh for my micro 
nutrients. The only reason I do this is because I was dealing with a deficiency 
that I couldn't get wrestled down. Since I switched to the flourish, the plants 
look much better.

There are also cheaper effective means of dosing without using expensive 
peristaltic pumps. Check out the DIY section of The Planted Tank and search 
"dosing pumps" or something similar.

here's one good link: 
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/equipment/46367-overview-autodosing-methods.html


Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com> wrote: 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  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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