Nope it's bc it's a leaner fertilizer so it requires to be dosed daily which is also better for the plants, it's made to pair with Amaziona soil with how rich the soil is
Hey JJ. In the manuals for each of these brighty series fertilizers, ADA mentions that its acceptable to double or triple the standard dose according to plant mass. Is that something you do or do you more or less stick to 1 pump per 20L throughout the tank's life cycle? Thanks.
Hi, I've been using them for 2 weeks and it works really well! I just have one question please. From how long do you fertilize? I use automatic fertilizer pumps. I put the fertilizers on at 8:00 a.m. when my lights start to come on...is this ideal? or do I have to wait 1 hour later for example? Thanks
would love to see a video on how you know what to dose, are you doing tests to know which one you need to dose more or less of or watching the plants and know what to look for to cut back or increase on e or another. seems like someone like me might as well mix them up and dose it as an all in one.
You can get individual test kits but I've done it long enough, I can just look at the plants and know what I need more or less of but that would still make a good video thanks
Subscribed and liked! I’ve been waiting for info and news on ADA inventory. It’s all super expensive. For example I just got wave shears for $8, ADA wants $175? Wtf?
How often do I do water changes, and how much water do I change with ADA Ferts? Obviously this isn't like the Estimative Index method where I'll be doing 50% water changes weekly right?
Great Video! I have a 21 gallon long tank and almost 7weeks old of “dry start method”. Planning to flood my tank and i noticed that my monte carlo and s.repens are have brown color in their leaves. Any suggestion which ADA ferts should i use?
Hey JJ, how strong is the buffering effect of the green brighty K? I am wondering if you would use that or the neutral K for RO water in a scape with rocks that affect water chemistry like seiryu. Thanks! I purchased the buffering kind then realized maybe I should have got the neutral because of the rocks I used.
Thanks for the helpful video! I need your help, I set up a new 20L planted tank where I use sand as a subtrastrate and no CO2. Plants include java ferns, anubias, bacopa, cryptocoryne, and DHG. Do you think I should dose iron + nitrogen once the tank have finished cycling? Right now I’m dosing brighty neutral K + brighty mineral.Thanks!!!
You could and that's what ada kinda says to do but everyone just doses all from the beginning the only reason ada says not to is even your using new amazionia which has a lot of iron and nitrogen so just prevents you from having a big algae outbreak at first
Yes you have to dose it daily or you might as well not use it, it's super lean, and on a 90P it last maybe a month, but I buy the 500ml bottles which do a year
Hey JJ, Your tanks looking stunning mate, and Im also really inspired by your love of ADA products, I started to use ADA ferts to my 60P, but Im keep getting staghorn, and hair algea, I just wonder if its because Im underdosing, I got lots of plants, using only Brighty K + Minerals 3 pumps a day. Useing RO, reminiralized with Equilibrium, high end lights and filter, amazonia + powersand. No sign of ammonia, all test are good. Any suggestions ?
Just setup my 60U as an iwagumi using HC as my only plant and I am using the full ADA substrate system and wanted to ask you. When should I start fertilizing?
The whole set of ada fertilizer is made to be dosed all together so all four and dosed daily bc its a lean fertilizer, but each pump does about 5 gallons, so 10 pumps of each daily
Hi Johnny, I have been using the ADA fertilizers for my bucephalandra tank. It's only a two foot/60L tank with Contro Soil substrate, CO2 and a Chihiros Vivid ii light running at 40% power. Everything started off well with nice steady growth until recently when the plant leaves started to grow smaller with curled edges. They look like they haven't opened fully. I've noticed a general drop in color also. I've increased GH using Seachem's Equilibrium as I read the problem could be caused by a calcium deficiency, however no noticeable improvement on new growth after 3 weeks. All ferts are dosed according to the recommended amount on the bottle (1ml/20L per day). The tank has 40L of water (the remaining volume is taken up by hardscape), so two pumps each of N, P, K, iron and minerals are dosed daily. The plants are obviously lacking something and I'm kind of leaning towards a lack of nitrogen now. 70% of the substrate is covered with plants. I'd be really interested to hear what you would do to combat this problem or any advice you have to rectify this. Thank you : )
Can you make a video on the ADA Air Sweeper or ada water conditioners? it's hard to find videos on them and i'm not sure whether they are worth the money because they are very expensive in my country.
The air sweeper is discontinued so I can't get one unless I found someone with one, but it's not needed I can tell you that now amd the water conditioners is a good one I will put that on the list thanks
@@jjaquariums Thanks! one last question lol, I am confused by the description of the "vita mix" product. It's described as an aqua conditioner for tap water, does this mean it removes chorine/chloramine like other water conditioners or is it just for adding vitamins to the water?
@@jjaquariums I use RO water but not RODI. I think my water still has chloramines in it so I use a water conditioner. I am assuming vita mix removes chloramines but it's not mentioned in the description so a bit unclear.
@@jjaquariums flourish trace has more trace elements than flourish. On the other hand flourish has a little bit of everything NPK & trace in small quantities. Please clear if I am wrong Thanks for being so quick to read comments
What would you suggest if you're going to be out of town for a week or so? Higher fertilizer dose before you leave or reduce lighting while you're gone? Great video!
Dosing it everyday seems to me too much. Sounds like a marketing gimmick making you buy this stuff constantly.
Nope it's bc it's a leaner fertilizer so it requires to be dosed daily which is also better for the plants, it's made to pair with Amaziona soil with how rich the soil is
Hey JJ. In the manuals for each of these brighty series fertilizers, ADA mentions that its acceptable to double or triple the standard dose according to plant mass. Is that something you do or do you more or less stick to 1 pump per 20L throughout the tank's life cycle? Thanks.
Yes but if you pair with ada soil I would start with a normal dose rate
Hi, I've been using them for 2 weeks and it works really well! I just have one question please. From how long do you fertilize? I use automatic fertilizer pumps. I put the fertilizers on at 8:00 a.m. when my lights start to come on...is this ideal? or do I have to wait 1 hour later for example? Thanks
Nope that's good as long as it's consistent
For a 60p you would do 5 pumps of Ada fertilizer
I'm so glad I found this video! I just ordered some Green Brighty Mineral
would love to see a video on how you know what to dose, are you doing tests to know which one you need to dose more or less of or watching the plants and know what to look for to cut back or increase on e or another. seems like someone like me might as well mix them up and dose it as an all in one.
You can get individual test kits but I've done it long enough, I can just look at the plants and know what I need more or less of but that would still make a good video thanks
I have many fishes in my tank, do i still need to add Nitrogen ?
You can go without it and see
Keep up with the videos! ☺️
Thanks
Subscribed and liked! I’ve been waiting for info and news on ADA inventory. It’s all super expensive. For example I just got wave shears for $8, ADA wants $175? Wtf?
Ada tools are worth every penny, I own every single one
How often do I do water changes, and how much water do I change with ADA Ferts? Obviously this isn't like the Estimative Index method where I'll be doing 50% water changes weekly right?
Just depends on your tank, I still do 50 every week you just gotta make sure your dosing daily
Great Video! I have a 21 gallon long tank and almost 7weeks old of “dry start method”. Planning to flood my tank and i noticed that my monte carlo and s.repens are have brown color in their leaves. Any suggestion which ADA ferts should i use?
You'll need to dose them all to work
Hey JJ, how strong is the buffering effect of the green brighty K? I am wondering if you would use that or the neutral K for RO water in a scape with rocks that affect water chemistry like seiryu. Thanks! I purchased the buffering kind then realized maybe I should have got the neutral because of the rocks I used.
If you have seriyu stone just use the neutral
Do you dose all of them everyday? I started using them awhile back.
Yes you have to dose daily
Thanks for the helpful video! I need your help, I set up a new 20L planted tank where I use sand as a subtrastrate and no CO2. Plants include java ferns, anubias, bacopa, cryptocoryne, and DHG. Do you think I should dose iron + nitrogen once the tank have finished cycling? Right now I’m dosing brighty neutral K + brighty mineral.Thanks!!!
You could and that's what ada kinda says to do but everyone just doses all from the beginning the only reason ada says not to is even your using new amazionia which has a lot of iron and nitrogen so just prevents you from having a big algae outbreak at first
Does ADA have phosphate in it or do I need to use Seachem phosphorus?
Ads ferts don't have phosphorus
Since Phosphate is a macro nutrient why doesn’t ADA have it? Do you dose Phosphate?
@@Kevin144 it's in the soil
@Kevin144 and to much phosphate I'd algae issues
So you dose ADA ferts daily? How long does a 300ml bottle typically last you?
Yes you have to dose it daily or you might as well not use it, it's super lean, and on a 90P it last maybe a month, but I buy the 500ml bottles which do a year
Which ada fert do you use in the first month after a clean start? I read only brighty k + mineral.. then the other 2 after the cycling period.
Yup correct
Hi! Thanks for the videos. For 60p do you think 3 or 4 pumps a day?
4 pumps
Hey JJ, Your tanks looking stunning mate, and Im also really inspired by your love of ADA products, I started to use ADA ferts to my 60P, but Im keep getting staghorn, and hair algea, I just wonder if its because Im underdosing, I got lots of plants, using only Brighty K + Minerals 3 pumps a day. Useing RO, reminiralized with Equilibrium, high end lights and filter, amazonia + powersand. No sign of ammonia, all test are good. Any suggestions ?
Ya in a 60p should dose 5 pumps
@@jjaquariums Thanks for the reply ! Ill use more ferts, thank You
Just setup my 60U as an iwagumi using HC as my only plant and I am using the full ADA substrate system and wanted to ask you. When should I start fertilizing?
From day 1
@@jjaquariums Thank you !!
Hi I have ada bright k iron and mineral. And I have 50 gallon tank .how much ml should I put my tank .do I need do every day ?
The whole set of ada fertilizer is made to be dosed all together so all four and dosed daily bc its a lean fertilizer, but each pump does about 5 gallons, so 10 pumps of each daily
@@jjaquariums thank you
Is the ADA brighty mineral safe for neocaridina shrimp?
Yup
@@jjaquariums Thank you
Hi Johnny, I have been using the ADA fertilizers for my bucephalandra tank. It's only a two foot/60L tank with Contro Soil substrate, CO2 and a Chihiros Vivid ii light running at 40% power. Everything started off well with nice steady growth until recently when the plant leaves started to grow smaller with curled edges. They look like they haven't opened fully. I've noticed a general drop in color also. I've increased GH using Seachem's Equilibrium as I read the problem could be caused by a calcium deficiency, however no noticeable improvement on new growth after 3 weeks. All ferts are dosed according to the recommended amount on the bottle (1ml/20L per day). The tank has 40L of water (the remaining volume is taken up by hardscape), so two pumps each of N, P, K, iron and minerals are dosed daily. The plants are obviously lacking something and I'm kind of leaning towards a lack of nitrogen now. 70% of the substrate is covered with plants. I'd be really interested to hear what you would do to combat this problem or any advice you have to rectify this. Thank you : )
Even if the hardscape takes up volume still dose to your tank size, ada is very lean so your more likely just not getting enough
@@jjaquariums Thanks for the quick reply! I'll increase dosage..
Thanks! 👍
Can you make a video on the ADA Air Sweeper or ada water conditioners? it's hard to find videos on them and i'm not sure whether they are worth the money because they are very expensive in my country.
The air sweeper is discontinued so I can't get one unless I found someone with one, but it's not needed I can tell you that now amd the water conditioners is a good one I will put that on the list thanks
@@jjaquariums Thanks. Keep up the amazing videos. They have helped me a lot 👍
Love watching your videos man keep it up
Thanks
would you recommend using fertiliser and co2 to grow monte carlo?
Monte can grow without it but takes a long time
@@jjaquariums thanks!
What is your opinion of the additives like eca, green gain, and phyton git? Do you use any of these?
Yes all them
@@jjaquariums Thanks! one last question lol, I am confused by the description of the "vita mix" product. It's described as an aqua conditioner for tap water, does this mean it removes chorine/chloramine like other water conditioners or is it just for adding vitamins to the water?
@@zlk718 yes its not needed if you gave rodi
@@jjaquariums I use RO water but not RODI. I think my water still has chloramines in it so I use a water conditioner. I am assuming vita mix removes chloramines but it's not mentioned in the description so a bit unclear.
@@zlk718 yes that will help
Nice informative video
Thanks
Please make a video for seachem fertiliser also .
Ok
In seachem it has flourish, trace ,N ,P, K, iron . can I use only NPK , trace , iron and skip flourish?
@@sachinpanigrahi5902 flourish has your micros which is important
@@jjaquariums flourish trace has more trace elements than flourish.
On the other hand flourish has a little bit of everything NPK & trace in small quantities. Please clear if I am wrong
Thanks for being so quick to read comments
@@sachinpanigrahi5902 it just all depends what your keeping and trying to do seachem even has dosing schedules
What would you suggest if you're going to be out of town for a week or so? Higher fertilizer dose before you leave or reduce lighting while you're gone? Great video!
I just leave everything alone like is and not fertilize