I'm going for a medium light, low tech setup. I saw a great write up on the PAR and PUR of the Beamswork DA FSPEC and decided to go with that for my 40 gallon breeder. It should provide the correct amount of light for medium light. I want to avoid CO2 injection. I currently only dose Flourish and use Flourish root tabs. The light is a brand new upgrade (literally only two days). I suspect that I'll start dosing Flourish Excel and Flourish Iron as well, but that is about the extent of where I want to take it. CO2 injection isn't something I'm interested in spending the money on or maintaining. My philosophy is that I keep some plants with my fish, rather than keeping some fish with my plants. Your videos are extremely informative and are helping me along with deciding how to dose and maintain this tank, so thank you!
Another great informative video. I am definitely going to make this KNo3 fertilizer for my tank. Thanks man for all the work and time you put in this videos.
Good video. The problems I have with my plants seem to revolve around nitrogen deficiencies. (Well, and carbon, too, but I hope to fix that with pressurized CO2, soon.) My dosing routine is two "pumps" of Aquarium Co-Op's "Easy Green" once a week, plus iron twice a week and Seachem Nitrogen once a week to supplement the Easy Green.
I used to dose the Dennerle CarboBooster MAX it gave my low tech tank a massive jumpstart i love it. I do not dose it anymore because my plants are thriving without it now that they have big roots
Old vid but if any of you guys have empty bottles of Thrive laying around you can clean it and reuse it with this mixture because those bottles use 2ml per pump
could you please tell me what type of swordtail that is in the tank shown at roughly 7:45. it swims right above the reddish colored plant on the left side. atleast I think it's a swordtail. I had issued buffing the video so it's fuzzy on my end. thanks for the info. and please keep up the great videos.
Question what time would be considered possibly the best time to dose? before the lights turn on, during the day when the lights are on or when the lights are turned off
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Hey, great video! I have heard of people adding stuff to their fertilizers to prevent the nutrients from mixing and keep mold from going. Do you do that at all? I have heard of Vitamin C or Flourish Excel being used. Any thoughts?
i dose seachem iron, seachem excel twice a day once in morning and evening at night. and i use ADA NPK, iron and trace, python git, green gain, and bactor. i only do this because my tank is 8 gallons. check it out. love the channel.
The end product of the nitrogen cycle is nitrates, so we do not need to be adding extra nitrates to our aquariums via Potassium nitrate. I use Potassium Phosphate, both potassium and phosphate are important for plant nutrition, and can limit plant growth if not added. I am surprised you are not adding any micro-nutrients?
I'm having problems with making my ludwigia red. I have root tab fertilizer, liquid iron, dirt tank, and on top of that Mexican pottery clay. My ludwigia couldn't be any more green that what it is. I have about 4 watts of lighting per gallon at 6500k. Any advice. Lights are left on 10 hours a day
Call me crazy but I use oridinary houseplant fertilizer containing all the trace elements. I have lots of plants shrimps and a catfish. It's a 200 litre aquarium. It does work, but I would be carefull if I had other types of fish.
Seriously I'm in L❤VE with his voice! He also reminds me of THE DIY KING. Look & kinda sound alike. Love them both & constantly learning from both channels! Thank you for this! God Bless! Jesus loves you! ❤ PS- this is brilliance broken down into simplicity.
Tyler Aldridge Yep, I prefer Seachem too. When it comes to meds, additives, and ferts, I'm more comfortable with a corp doing all the measurements and calculations. It's a bit more money, but I like to pay for a refined, stable, and finished product.
I'm having problem with it and I found that my heater is not working and I have another problem but the algae a clean it one week and it's back again and dumb I can't get rid of it are using salt water for freshwater can you help me out
Hi I just started aquascaping a month ago and really need some fertz. My plants growth isnt that great. My country isnt that famous aquascaping. I also cant really afford a test kit. So far no fish died yet so I assume all is good. You have any recipe for all in one fertz? The general ones. I dont really know when to use the specifics ones
Using this solution you do not need fertile substrate/fertile soil? sorry if it's answered on video, i'm from Brazil and my english it's not that great
KCL just adds potassium to your tank. KNO3 adds both nitrogen and potassium to your tank. So if you need more potassium add more KCL if you were just trying to increase potassium with KNO3 you would be over dosing the nitrogen.
@@gwendolynamy7462 change your water. I've been watching a lot of these planted tank videos during the pandemic shutdown and what some of them dont tell ya is they do constant water changes. And becareful with these DIY ferts. They can be a pain and are only meant for extremely demanding plants.
or you just go buy a 5$ bottle from the store. You have to buy scales the KNO3 the bottles etc, to much time and initial investment . Save your time and money and just go buy a bottle please everyone
Abstract Aquatics a 250ml for 10 to 20$ or 3 litres for 5 dollars. The money you save you spend on the scale which has multiple purposes. They only cost ten dollars on amazon.
Could be a Walstad aquarium, use slow growing plants and soil substrate you can use fish food as ferts and no CO2 injection and still get really good growth. Soil provides all the micro nutrients and breaks down to create CO2 for about 12 months.
I wish you would make an update video on how the dosing affected your tank.
Omg why have I never thought of the airline tube syringe attachment!? My life just got easier, dude. Thanks, lol.
Thanks a lot. Learned a few things. Talking about deficiencies and showing it on your plants, that's a ton of help for someone new to the hobby.
I'm going for a medium light, low tech setup. I saw a great write up on the PAR and PUR of the Beamswork DA FSPEC and decided to go with that for my 40 gallon breeder. It should provide the correct amount of light for medium light. I want to avoid CO2 injection. I currently only dose Flourish and use Flourish root tabs. The light is a brand new upgrade (literally only two days). I suspect that I'll start dosing Flourish Excel and Flourish Iron as well, but that is about the extent of where I want to take it. CO2 injection isn't something I'm interested in spending the money on or maintaining. My philosophy is that I keep some plants with my fish, rather than keeping some fish with my plants. Your videos are extremely informative and are helping me along with deciding how to dose and maintain this tank, so thank you!
man,this is so cool,I love that you explain everything like this,give us more chemistry more tips,and congrats on the avatar tank!!
Thank you for the video. This is so helpful!
Another great informative video. I am definitely going to make this KNo3 fertilizer for my tank. Thanks man for all the work and time you put in this videos.
+Manvar Tejas Thanks! Appreciate the support!
Sweetness!!!!! keep the expenses down!
Good video. The problems I have with my plants seem to revolve around nitrogen deficiencies. (Well, and carbon, too, but I hope to fix that with pressurized CO2, soon.) My dosing routine is two "pumps" of Aquarium Co-Op's "Easy Green" once a week, plus iron twice a week and Seachem Nitrogen once a week to supplement the Easy Green.
I used to dose the Dennerle CarboBooster MAX it gave my low tech tank a massive jumpstart i love it. I do not dose it anymore because my plants are thriving without it now that they have big roots
wow amazing info would u know how we would do this with iron also in the solution? and where would we get iron?
I use the green leaf dry frets and just add them with measuring spoons and just put it in the sump
hi mate, its good video, very helpful. is kno3 is enough to grow plants? or Do I have to add any other fertz with that?
Do you take into account the amount of water in your sump or canister when doing the math? Or is it not necessary?
awesome and informative...thanks for what you are doing
+Michael Autrey Anytime Michael!
Its very helpfull for my planted tank because they always die tnx for this
Old vid but if any of you guys have empty bottles of Thrive laying around you can clean it and reuse it with this mixture because those bottles use 2ml per pump
Nice Tank 👍👍👍👌
could you please tell me what type of swordtail that is in the tank shown at roughly 7:45. it swims right above the reddish colored plant on the left side. atleast I think it's a swordtail. I had issued buffing the video so it's fuzzy on my end. thanks for the info. and please keep up the great videos.
I just bought soecialised nutrition from tropica. Quite expensiv in kuwait. I love diy, i might check this ingredients if availble in the market
Excellent video more like this please!
Sounds like a great idea but i got so confused on that website so i think i will just stick with the premixed stuff
Hello.
How did you preserve the solution?
Is it fine to add ascorbic acid as a preservative?
Question what time would be considered possibly the best time to dose? before the lights turn on, during the day when the lights are on or when the lights are turned off
great info Mike thanks for sharing that
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nice video like always.
+Mrcerclees Thanks!!!!
exellent work,less 2 % dossage vill gives good results.
Can we get an update on this please? Btw, great content ✌️👍
Thanks for sharing your time, great information 😎
+jeremiemcd Thanks for the time spent watching! :D
Hey, great video! I have heard of people adding stuff to their fertilizers to prevent the nutrients from mixing and keep mold from going. Do you do that at all? I have heard of Vitamin C or Flourish Excel being used. Any thoughts?
Matthew Kluczinske use distilled water and avoid sunlight when storing the solution.
i dose seachem iron, seachem excel twice a day once in morning and evening at night. and i use ADA NPK, iron and trace, python git, green gain, and bactor. i only do this because my tank is 8 gallons. check it out. love the channel.
Hey Mike. If I go this path, where can we get the does for Phosphorus since KNO3 is just N and K.
great stuff buddy.
+john peter Thanks John!
Have you seen all the videos with DIY root tabs? Might be worth doing a video on those for people that don't want to dirt their tank.
Hello @aquapros I really like ur vids. I am making a KH2PO4 fertilizer. Can u please tell me what would be the ideal target PPM of this solution?
me too
Helpful! You do a great job of explaining. Much respect:)
The end product of the nitrogen cycle is nitrates, so we do not need to be adding extra nitrates to our aquariums via Potassium nitrate. I use Potassium Phosphate, both potassium and phosphate are important for plant nutrition, and can limit plant growth if not added. I am surprised you are not adding any micro-nutrients?
I'm having problems with making my ludwigia red. I have root tab fertilizer, liquid iron, dirt tank, and on top of that Mexican pottery clay. My ludwigia couldn't be any more green that what it is. I have about 4 watts of lighting per gallon at 6500k. Any advice. Lights are left on 10 hours a day
Thanks for sharing.. Great information
+Brian's Opinion/Comments :D Thanks B!
thanks
hey pal, as always, something new to learn...thank you :)
+michael a Thanks Michael, anytime :D
I use the PPS pro method, all dry ferts.
Is there any issue with heating the solution with a stir bar and supersaturing it? Is heat an issue with KNO(3)?
Can i use NPK powder and mix with substrate for fertilizer when setting up a new tank
Excellent.
What's the best heater brand to use in a 60 gallon tank ?! (Freshwater)
isn't it enough to with fish waist, co2, and proper light? is it really necessary to add more fertilizer ?
I add iron and potassium Gluconate tablets they sell in health food stores for humans to swallow. The soil in my substrate provides the rest.
Loved the video and the theme, I do 800gr of K2O for 5L of purified water, what do you think of it? Love from Portugal.
Call me crazy but I use oridinary houseplant fertilizer containing all the trace elements. I have lots of plants shrimps and a catfish. It's a 200 litre aquarium. It does work, but I would be carefull if I had other types of fish.
What is the stripped fish wirh the red tail in this aquarium?
I have ramshorns, will this hurt them?
Seriously I'm in L❤VE with his voice! He also reminds me of THE DIY KING. Look & kinda sound alike. Love them both & constantly learning from both channels! Thank you for this! God Bless! Jesus loves you! ❤
PS- this is brilliance broken down into simplicity.
What is the species of plant at 12:17? I've just got this but don't have an ID.
Josh Abbott pogostemon or limnophila aromatica
I just use rootabs and flourish excell. Plan on adding iron for my ar plant.
Flourish and flourish excel, excel daily, flourish every 3 days
Tyler Aldridge Yep, I prefer Seachem too. When it comes to meds, additives, and ferts, I'm more comfortable with a corp doing all the measurements and calculations. It's a bit more money, but I like to pay for a refined, stable, and finished product.
Ever since I switched to Seachem my plants started growing like crazy, there’s a noticeable growth each day I look at it.
Does dosing, or an excess of dosing affect the fish?
i use API plant food, and seachems iron.
Hey how come i get a 0 reading when i test for nitrates in my KNO3 solution???
How would i go on about if i wanted to Have Moles in instead of ppm? how much is 10ppm KNO3 in Mole/L?
Take your value in mg/L and divide by the molar mass of the compound, you will be left with mmol/L then /1000 to get mol/L
Ah thanks!
Hello,
I am Tanvir, would you give me the all mix fertilizer for 10 Gallon planted tank,
I can't understand your calculation.
What happens if my plants are stunted and melting, but my nitrates are 40-80 ppm?
Do I need to add kno3 because of the stunted growth?
the fish look so HAPPY!
Great video... Thanks for explaining some of this. Where's the playlist you mentioned about the other fertilizer videos?
I'm having problem with it and I found that my heater is not working and I have another problem but the algae a clean it one week and it's back again and dumb I can't get rid of it are using salt water for freshwater can you help me out
very informative !!
What are the really tall plants in the back of your aquarium?
+AGCexotics Unlimited ummm which one hahah
AQUAPROS uhh I think it was the first aquarium the plant that reached and bent at the top
I think you mean java fern?
ThisBoyPodcasts no I know what java fern is lol. When he fist starts talking the plant right beside his head that touches the top
ah ok sorry lol, looks like a vallisneria species. sorry best i could do..
1:52 okay I’m sold where is the link thanks
Thanks for the info! I’m a big plant nerd so know all about NPK ratios and what ferts to use in a garden, but I need more info on aquatic plants.
Hi I just started aquascaping a month ago and really need some fertz. My plants growth isnt that great. My country isnt that famous aquascaping. I also cant really afford a test kit. So far no fish died yet so I assume all is good. You have any recipe for all in one fertz? The general ones. I dont really know when to use the specifics ones
more videos Aquarium Fertilizer pliz
Using this solution you do not need fertile substrate/fertile soil? sorry if it's answered on video, i'm from Brazil and my english it's not that great
Is kno3 alone enough?
Can I use urea?
Tetramid evry 4 weeks. And happy carbo evry day
Lots of information..
my plants getting holes and brown spots..and i dose only macro nutrients..wht's the problem with my plants
holes is usually mean potassium deficiency, but you say you dose macro which contains potassium, so thats weird
How much W is tht led?
I dissolve rob taps in aquarium water idk if I’m doing wrong someone educate me
Great video Mike! Really needed that information. Awesome timing.
+toycar foushboy Thanks for watching as always :)
Just successfully 2 liters of this !
this is Old News. try the redfield ratio ;)
we have so much minerals in our untreated tap water hahaha!!! filled with iron... lucky me !
Use a distiller
what is the difference between the KCL and KNO3? Thank you. Im a bit confused now on what to buy.
KCL just adds potassium to your tank. KNO3 adds both nitrogen and potassium to your tank. So if you need more potassium add more KCL if you were just trying to increase potassium with KNO3 you would be over dosing the nitrogen.
hows that your tank size is 72 gal and u enter 10 gal ?
sdq sdq he explained in the video
metricide14 50/50 mix
cool
poor man dose , thats for me haha , how you get pure no3 from cano3 ?
why can't you just put the powder in the tank?
Alright so i had a spike in nitrates and my plants melted. What happened?
So this didnt work?
@@ManlyPHall-ce8dc i didnt try it
@@gwendolynamy7462 change your water. I've been watching a lot of these planted tank videos during the pandemic shutdown and what some of them dont tell ya is they do constant water changes. And becareful with these DIY ferts. They can be a pain and are only meant for extremely demanding plants.
I dont think this bag would get passed the border into my country xD
Doesn't this chemical harm fishes?
Ram Lamichhane not as much as japan.
I use the sea chem line twice a week
hehe knob hehe
+otto leeverink lol im gonna start calling it a knob solution for short hahah good one!
did we make sure to double check the math this time? ;)
or you just go buy a 5$ bottle from the store. You have to buy scales the KNO3 the bottles etc, to much time and initial investment . Save your time and money and just go buy a bottle please everyone
Abstract Aquatics a 250ml for 10 to 20$ or 3 litres for 5 dollars. The money you save you spend on the scale which has multiple purposes. They only cost ten dollars on amazon.
I mean if your that broke and cant afford to spend 10-20$ every month or so, you should be in this hobby. save yourself the time and headache
I dose ferts everyday, I dose fish waste!
Could be a Walstad aquarium, use slow growing plants and soil substrate you can use fish food as ferts and no CO2 injection and still get really good growth. Soil provides all the micro nutrients and breaks down to create CO2 for about 12 months.
LOL I don’t think the plants will be getting any iron from those. They can’t even absorb poop, they have to wait for something to break it down.
@@TheRicoBentley You dont need to dose ferts for most plants. plain and simple. all you need is a substrate
This dude is frightening lol
Just buy seachem
how easy is it to kill your fish this way
Can you elaborate on this?
@@NightFlight1973 it doesn't