Why Do People Say Flora Boost Is Useless?

[Miah002]

So you know the queation but why?

It's A plant food that contains highly available essential trace elements including iron.

Formula is nitrate and phosphate free, so avoids encouraging unwanted algae.

 

[OldMan47]

It sounds like your description came off the label. There is nothing wrong with adding a trace element fertilizer to a regular balanced fertilizer regime. I use a dry product called CSM+B as my dry trace fertilizer but I also use nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers in a balanced proportion to give my plants their nutrients in my high light tanks. The plants also get fed pressurized CO2 in those tanks. The trace feeding by itself will do almost nothing to produce good plant growth unless the major fertilizers are already being taken care of some other way.
It is also quite possible to have happy healthy plants without any artificial fertilizers. This tank has no added CO2 and no added fertilizers at all. The plants grow slowly under moderately low lights and stay healthy.

 

[Miah002]

My plants are growing very fast since i've increased there lighting hours.

I just want to know if i should use it. My plants are growing and i don't feed them anything else, no pressurised Co2 or anything like that.

 

[Truck]

My plants are growing very fast since i've increased there lighting hours.

I just want to know if i should use it. My plants are growing and i don't feed them anything else, no pressurised Co2 or anything like that.

we say its rubbish because it contains no N or P, because american manufacturers get it wrong they think N and P in excess causes algae, but it does not.

you can use it but theres no real need

 

[SuperColey1]

And most other manufacturers around the world including English ones!!!

There are only a few manufacturers that understand that N and P do not cause algae. The majority still go by old beliefs that they do and therefore omit them from their fertiliser.

Problem is that without N and P then the fertiliser is useless. If there is already enough N and P in the tank naturally there is more than likely enough of everything naturally.

Why? Because if you assume that fish waste and food contains enough N and P then you should also understand that this waste will also contain all the other traces too!!! Fish require trace elements just as plants do and their food contains it.

In reality your tank doesn't require the trace elements. If anything it won't require anything at all other than possibly adding a little KNO3 every now and again to top up the level on top of that produced from waste. Howeverthey will still say you do need it because you will believe it and spend some money

If you are low light <1.5WPG, with an 8-10 hour photoperiod, no CO2 it is likely that you can get by with adding no ferts at all.

AC

 

[Miah002]

Ok thanks for all the help people.

I won't be getting flora boost anymore.