plant fertalizer?

Question

I have a 29 g. trop. tank and have a lot! of plants, whats the deal with fertalizer? when? how mutch? why?anything!

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Fert are basically food for plants, to gather with CO2 and light they form the basic requirement for a planted tank.

How much you need depend on a few things, what type of plants you have, how much light are you providing and how much CO2 you're providing. Most of this are estimates you can use. The more CO2 and Light the more fert is require.

If there is a lack of any of the chemical that combine to form fert, your plants will show symptoms to indicate what chemical it's missing. It'll turn yellow, or have brown hole on it leave, or curling leaves, etc, etc. You can read up on chemical deficiency in planted tank on many websites on the Internet.

There are two type of fert, one is solid mixture which I call base fert, this is normally add to the bottom of the tank before gravel is added on top of that. The other is liquid fert which is added to the water column. If you have plants that have heavy root system base fert would be a good idea. Otherwise, liquid fert will do well for most.

As for liquid fert, you can buy it off the shelf from an aquarium or you could buy chemical and create the mixture yourself. I you know what to do the latter would be much more economy.

Answer 3

when your plants look a bit off, they might need fertilizer.
for instance, amazon swords' leaves will turn kind of transparent.
they come in powder, liquid, mixed with sand, or kinda alka-seltzer looking. the fish poop will provide some nutrients, as will leftover food, but fertilizer is good once in a while. since the concentration of fertilizers vary, the amount is written on the package.

Answer 4

just get the appropriate plant fertilizer for the aquatic plants you have. or get some generic type. follow the instructions (stick or pellet type) for putting it in. they basically contain minerals and other stuff you cant get from fish poop but which plants need.

plants grow, so if you dont see healthy offshoots of your plants and the leaves die without healthy replacement, you need fertilizer and/or carbon dioxide.

Answer 5

there's also liquid fertilizer... you can get it at the pet store.
You need the kind with potassium, iron, and other trace elements.

the fish poop already provides nitrogen and phosphate.

you can also make your own... you can check http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Fertilizer/

if you like chemistry.