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Originally Posted by AaronT I think you'll find that the Aquasoil by itself has some macros in it. If you heavily dose the water column and the plants have nutrients in the substrate as well you'll get algae...even with fast weeds. |
I dose normal EI levels from day 1 with no algae (also high CO2, lots of fast growing plants, no fish for the first month as well, adding mulm). There are always going to be macros in the water column whether or not you put them there... They will leach out of the substrate and leak out of the plants. Algae are triggered to grow when certain nutrients get depleted, rather than the assumption that most people make which is that algae grow when there are excess nutrients in the water column. Therefore, it makes sense to have the proper amounts of all nutrients available in the water column from the very beginning. Also, and this is just one of my thoughts... when you first plant a tank, most of the plants don't have established roots anyways, how could they be making an efficient use of nutrients in the substrate?
The "ADA method" obviously has great results as does EI from day 1. I choose to go with the EI because Tom has given us the science behind it, and it makes sense. It's just a matter of preference as to which method you go with.