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

[Berg <bergatron@gmail.com>]

Question for all of you:  How do you go about dosing in ML.  I imagine there
is some kinda monster syringe type thing to do it.  If so where do I get
something like that?  Right now I am dosing fertilizer in cap sized
increments. (not very accurate)

Berg

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Bryan Nichols <b_monius_funk@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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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