I use Flourish fertilizer and Flourish Excel for carbon on my 6 gallon Eclipse. My java fern is doing good with excellent color and my crypt is growing like a weed. With the amount of fertilizer you add and the regularity of it I've never had an issue with water color or smell.
What is this Flourish Excel? I will go google it here in a minute, but should i get some? Right now I am keeping pretty basic plants. Just trying to figure out what the added bonus of excel is to determine if and when i should get it.
Flourish is a fertilizer, Flourish Excel is a carbon supplement. The tank I use them in is only 6 gallons and also at my office. A full on CO2 injection system would be both overkill and an unsightly mess in my office. Excel supplies the plants with the carbon they need but in a liquid form that's easy to dose.
excel is a carbon substitute, it stays in your tank longer than co2, but get pricey if you does it regularly since its not a cheap fert. However, it does wonders if your tank is lacking in co2. Also, some people overdoes excel to fight some types of algae growth
So as long as i am growing easy care plants i shouldnt need excel? When i get to the point of needing CO2 injection i will be buying it before adding the plants that need it.
excel is basically liquid co2 so it wont leave the tank with surface agitation and such. It depends, my plants i only dose excel once a week because i ahve very little surface agitation so i retain a lot of the co2 my fish generate. In my 20 gallon w/ bubblewand, i had to dose it once every 2 days.
In a small tank a single bottle will last a long time. I got my bottle for $7 bucks at the LFS and it's lasted me about 4 months so far and it's only half empty.
Oops sorry. I meant Excel. Haha.. no worries tho. I just picked up a bottle of Leaf zone, as well as setup a DIY co2 for my 16, well see how this combo goes. Getting about 1 bubble per 4 sec
well excel is just liquid carbon so i think its essentially the same as having a co2 injection but easier to control... also more expensive in the long run.
Does anyone have any experience with Nutrafin Plant Gro? It was on sale when I bought some plants for my 10 gallon.
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