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

[Bryan Nichols <b_monius_funk@yahoo.com>]

The drug store has infant oral syringes for sale. Thats what I use for liquid 
measurements. For EI dry ferts it's convienent to buy one of those weekly pill 
boxes with the days labled on top. That way you can just measure our your ferts 
once a week and since you are supposed to alternate with EI you can easily 
distinguish which days of the week get which ferts (macro or micro). 

Berg <bergatron@gmail.com> wrote:
  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 
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 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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