Ferts with Calcium in hard water?

[Jace M]

I have never used fertilizer before, I am starting a planted tank that will not be heavily planted, I will just had a few plants that feed mainly from the water column. I wanted to get a liquid fertilizer that was cheap and pretty low key. I will not be keeping demanding plants so I think fish poop will honestly give my 1 or 2 plants in a well stocked 60 gallon but I figured I may as well add some light ferts as well. I wanted to use seachem flourish, but I noticed it has calcium in it. I live in an area with insanely hard water that is a ridiculously high ph. My tap water is basically liquid rock. My fish have been fine so far but the last thing I want is to be adding calcium when it's already so hard. I liked seachem flourish though because it seems to me like it's a pretty low key fert that won't load my tank with anything but just provides small amounts of some things to give my plants a little added boost. Does anyone know if adding this extra calcium will make my water harder? or will it not affect it? it also contains a very small amount of copper, will that hurt my snails? Here is the ingredients
Total Nitrogen 0.07%
Available Phosphate (P205) 0.01%
Soluble Potash 0.37%
Calcium (Ca) 0.14%
Magnesium (Mg) 0.11%
Sulfur (S) 0.2773%
Boron (B) 0.009%
Chlorine (C) 1.15%
Cobalt (Co) 0.0004%
Copper (Cu) 0.0001%
Iron (Fe) 0.32%
Manganese (Mn) 0.0118%
Molybdenum (Mo) 0.0009%
Sodium (Na) 0.13%
Zinc (Zn) 0.0007%
Soluble Iron (Fe) 1.0%
Thanks to anyone who helps out I would love to hear what you have to say

 

[Colin_T]

That amount of calcium won't make any difference to the GH of the water.
The copper is unlikely to do anything to the snails.

That's a weird fertiliser, it has more chlorine than anything else and has such low % you will need a lot more of it to treat the tank. I guess that's the company selling it, make a low % so you use more and have to buy more

It also has two different iron levels in it, one is soluble and one isn't

 

[fishorama]

What plants do you (will you) have? Post a pic or 2 if you don't know. I am a lame fertilizer, mostly root tabs when I remember. But that works for many "easy" plants. In tanks with fish, their poo is often enough for plants like java fern & anubias. I love cryptocorynes & they like a bit of root tab near their roots every 3 or 4 months.

Tell us more about your tank please. What size? 60g, 4ft or breeder? What fish? How many?

 

[Jace M]

I do not have any plants yet but i will soon be getting mostly Anubis species and maybe bacopa caroliniana. It's a 60 gallon tank with 7 neon tetras, 8 gold barbs. and 9 tiger barbs. (and 2 nerite snails) I think I have decided I think I will just go with leaf zone which i know is just iron and potassium but I was thinking the poop would probably be enough nitrates for just a few slow growers. I have an under gravel filter so I don't plan on using root tabs. Thanks for the replies!

 

[fishorama]

Well, we're going to need pics please! I've never used Leaf Zone so I have no opinion.

 

[Jace M]

I'll post some pics when i get them won't be for a while though but i am interested to see how leaf zone works as well