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Please clear up dosing for a newbie

1K views 5 replies 4 participants last post by  freydo 
Hi tenball,

Although I am not a lighting expert, I suspect part of your problem may be your bulb. Plants need light in the spectrum of about 6700k for optimum growth. Your light bulbs are more for a marine tank, not a freshwater planted tank.
That being said, if you visit the Flourish website, it recommends N-P-K as well as other some of their other formulas for optimum growth. However, when I first started my tank, all I used was Flourish Comprehensive and Flourish Trace and my plants did fine. Now I dose DIY fertilizers per the PPS Pro system that you will find in this forum. Good luck, I hope this helps.
 
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