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I am sure that the question has been asked and answered but I am not the type of person who's ever been keen on sifting through loads of information to find an answer. It bores me. Besides, I had 2 strokes last year and staring at the computer screen hurts my eyes. No sympathy please.
I have a 50 gallon tank that I have planted. My plants are doing well but I would like them to do better. I don't have a lot of fish (1 gold gourami, 2 tiger barbs, 1 green tiger barb, 2 albino corys and 4 otocinclus). I have been doing 30% water changes about every week and a half. I have also been dosing with FlorinMulti 2x weekly and iron once weekly. I have a substrate of river rocks. Not the ideal substrate for plants. I like my gravel but am thinking that maybe the addition something like Flourite would be beneficial. I don't want to change my gravel completely. My question is, if I mix the Flourite with my current gravel would it hold the nutrients that the plants need and help them to grow more lush and maybe a little more quickly?
Oh...I almost forgot...my lighting is sufficient. I invested in a plant light and since my plants have gotten nicer. Lighting is on 3:30pm-12:30am approximately 9 hours. I had longer but I grew a lot of algae. I finally controlled that and would not like to grow any more.
Should I add Flourite? How much?
I have a 50 gallon tank that I have planted. My plants are doing well but I would like them to do better. I don't have a lot of fish (1 gold gourami, 2 tiger barbs, 1 green tiger barb, 2 albino corys and 4 otocinclus). I have been doing 30% water changes about every week and a half. I have also been dosing with FlorinMulti 2x weekly and iron once weekly. I have a substrate of river rocks. Not the ideal substrate for plants. I like my gravel but am thinking that maybe the addition something like Flourite would be beneficial. I don't want to change my gravel completely. My question is, if I mix the Flourite with my current gravel would it hold the nutrients that the plants need and help them to grow more lush and maybe a little more quickly?
Oh...I almost forgot...my lighting is sufficient. I invested in a plant light and since my plants have gotten nicer. Lighting is on 3:30pm-12:30am approximately 9 hours. I had longer but I grew a lot of algae. I finally controlled that and would not like to grow any more.
Should I add Flourite? How much?