Adding Plant Food

[blazinloud]

Hi everyone! I have a question, I just bought 30ml of "plant gro" aquatic plant fertilizer, iron enriched, made by nutrafin.

ingredients are:

total nitrogen 0.15%
Iron 0.26%
Manganese 0.05%
Zinc 0.003%
Boron 0.0005%
Copper 0.0005%
Molybdate 0.0007%

I read that copper is really bad for inverts and was wondering if i can add any of this to help my plants.

Tank is 10 gallon with 2 rosey barbs a flame gourami, male betta, candy barb, 1 ghost shrimp(carrying eggs) and 1 ADF

the plants are 2 wisteria and 2 aluminum plants, and alls i have for lighting are 2 halogens and 1 external florescent(9watt) shining right in from the side.....tank also gets some indirect sunlight.......

Also can I add any pickling salt to the tank to help out the fish? or is even a tiny bit bad for the shrimp and adf?

thanks for any help

 

[blazinloud]

13 hits and not 1 post I'm sure someone can help me out......

 

[three-fingers]

Read http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=178036. I would say you should be OK with such a small amount of it, but it's still a risk.

Also can I add any pickling salt to the tank to help out the fish? or is even a tiny bit bad for the shrimp and adf?

I don't know the difference between regular and pickling salt, but in general, adding salt is a bad idea. It doesn't really help, but people used to think it did in the early days of fishkeeping and the thought lives on today. The only time salt is useful if if you have a tank full of marine or brackish water fish, or when treating parasites.

 

[~T~]

Copper will kill shrimp.