A Good All Around Fertilizer

[IovaykInD]

I have a low light planted tank and I don't want to go into the EI stuff because I don't have a high planted tank. What is a fertilizer that I should use that will help my plants. I am noticing that my amazon sword's new leaves are growing smaller and smaller. This is the same with my water sprite. Is Kent or Seachem Flourish a good fertilizer to help my plants? I don't have c02.

 

[simonbrown403]

I use seachem flourish in my low light tank with Hydrocotyle verticillata, Cryptocoryne x willisii ''lucens'', Microsorum pteropus ''Narrow'' (java moss) Vesicularia dubyana (java moss) and Anubias barteri var. nana and all are growing well, at a good rate as well.

 

[jimbooo]

if your specifically trying to improve your swords root tabs will be better than a liquid fertaliser. by nature they extract a much higher percentage of their nutrients from the substrate than from the water column. JBL 7 Balls or Ferrotabs will do the trick or any root fertaliser stick.

nutrafin make one that you stab into the gravel directly beneath the plant roots and it lasts about a year. you should see an improvement if you add those.

liquid ferts are more usefull for stem plants and anything generally smaller in size. a good pointer is the roots. if the plant has a massive root structure then root fertalisers are better.

 

[Dubby]

I'd definitely recommend a combination of a liquid fertiliser such as Leaf zone and Root tabs from API (www.aquariumpharm.com)

 

[gt568]

So you should push jbl ferrotabs directly into the substrate?