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Originally Posted by hypersushi2
Good info Ari. Mind sharing what is your dosing regime for Rotala Macranda once it is settled? How often iron tabs (and how many), any other tabs as well, when do you dose liquids (does time of day matter?) and how much each time. Any other supplements...
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Dosing regime?...non existant. i dont keep a track record, sometimes i do it once every two weeks, sometime 3 weeks...depending if i could remember, but i will put in liquid iron ferts after water change...which is about 20 to 30% per month...no weekly 50% water change for me. but at times when i notice the reds are losing its colour i will make a water change and add it iron ferts, so theres no such thing as regime for me...everything is flexible and depending on the situation.
iron tabs...i put in 2 tabs per stem every 6 weeks, i rely heavily on monster root ferts coz i need to have the stem big and fat...if u dont do that...the resulting shoots that shoots up after each trimming will get thinner and the leafs becomes narrow.....in the end the rotala will begin to look like a Ludwigia species. Remember...Macranda is a broad leaf species.
i have seen wild rotala in their natural habbitat during one of my Ikan Kelah fishing trip in India...boy are those stem big. but they found mostly emerged.
just like the Eustralis species if the emerged rotala had flowered...they will not turn submerged.
yes ...its best to do your liquid dosage in the morning .. an hour or so after turning the lights on...no point doing your dosage in the late evening or nite.
the reason is during the later part of the day ...plants already had enough light for the day..they start to close up meaning the fotosintensis process is slowing down....the plants will not absord the ferts in such a time.
another method of mine is to turn the filerations off during dosage...so the liquid ferts would stay suspended in mid water in a more concentrated form.
u could turn the pumps on in the evening...no harm done to the fishes or plants. some of the people i know apply a sort of gelantine substance to get C02 to remain suspended in mid water...the same gelantine substance could be use during liquid fert dosage....i havent tried this substance before ...but the word is it works. i try to ask more about this ok.
no other supplemments apart that when red plants are presence in my tank ...i would put some dried Terminalia catappa leafs in the filter box