whats the best fertilizer in your opinion guys?

there's so many good ones on the market. just get something high in iron. iron is the first thing to go in a tank and if you want high color like the reds and pinks to really come out then keep the iron up. they do make iron-only supplements. also i like root tabs. you shove them into the gravel beside a rooted plant and they slowly feed the roots. they really help amazons swords.

yeah i was gonna get some of those tablets they look good, also just noticed i asked "whats the best fertilizer for live plants?" what as aposed to fake ones!!!! d'oh

yeah, those fake plants are pretty undemanding! i reccomend them for beginners

lol, I have some general purpose pond fertiliser that my plants love, my amazon swords go mad with growth, you can see an oinch of growth a day on new leaves

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when they lack iron you get those thin pale leaves. those trace elements are overlooked sometimes. i use flora pride as a general fetilizer twice a month. my wisteria is going mad!. i constantly have to prune. i hate throwing away perfectly good plants because of no room! i got a jungle. also indirect sunlight is really good but most shops try to tell you not to put a tank near a wndow. the more higher plants though, the better the out competition of algae. i love my tank. i might set up my old saltwater. a freind wants to give me his fish!! i'm temped, a few $$ fish for free!

lol, never look a gift horse in the mouth mate

and also, nitrate is good for plant growth, but an excess will cause an algae bloom

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that's the great thing about planted tanks, the nitrates aren't such a big deal. i've converted so many customers to plants in the past. everybodies afraid of them for some reason. i used to give free plants to my customers to get them hooked. it worked everytime. for every free plant i gave away, i'd sell a half dozen or more to them later on. that's one of the things i don't like about saltwater, no plants. oh, ive kept calerpa but it's not the same. but with plants in a tank you have both a fish habitat and a garden!

my freind has a koran angel, a coral beauty, a clown(occel) two yellow tangs a black velvet damsel

the denernle (i think thats how its spelt) is good, a little more expensive than some of the other stuff, but is easily the best on the market

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