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Old 05-02-2012, 06:21 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'm using the full line of Seacchems frets. I did the math off the suggested daily dosing. It's been eight days and what a difference but as you can see in the pics there are evident problems. I'm just getting confused on what to do. My O2 is up to like 34Pam

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Old 05-02-2012, 06:39 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Pin holes in leaves tend to indicate potassium deficiency. As for the yellowing of the leaves it could be lack of iron or not enough nitrogen
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I dose iron everyday at 2.5ml.
Potassium at 4ml twice a week
Nitrogen at 1.5ml twice a week
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On what size tank? NPK are normally dosed three times a week and I usually dose macros twice a week. You may not be dosing enough
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On what size tank? NPK are normally dosed three times a week and I usually dose macros twice a week. You may not be dosing enough
Sorry about that its a 29gal. You'll have to excuse the ignorance but I'm going to have to learn the abbreviations .

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Old 05-03-2012, 05:40 AM   #6 (permalink)
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And that makes it a million times easier because I have a 29 too and i dosed flourish ferts for three years. Mon, wed, Fri I dosed 5ml N, 5ml P, and 5ml K. Tues, Thurs I dosed 4ml flourish macros. And everyday I added 5ml Excel. There was a time too while doing this where my plants looked unbelievable and I had virtually no algae..at all. So try upping your dosage regime.
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Also as per your picture, try adding some more stem plants. Than tend to grown the fastest and help suck up the extra nutrients in the water. I also forgot to add the days i dosed NPK I also added 2.5ml iron.
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Thank you. I will up my doses.
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That's amazing how far off my calculations are.
About the only thing we had the same was Iron at 2.5ml

My doses have been
Nitrogen 1.5ml
Phosphorus 1.5
Potassium 4
Flourish 1.9
Trace 6.25ml
Excel 2.5

I'm no math wiz but I can't be that far off are they?

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