Alternative fertilization strategy

[spidangular]

Problem: My plants suffer deficiencies.

Background info: I'm new to aquatic plants. I have high light, DIY CO2, use Eco complete, and was given dry ferts PNK and Plantex, as well as a dilluted aquaponic plant fertilizer (http://selectaquatics.com/Plant%20Fertilizer.htm) touted by Greg Sage (1 six ounce bottle doses like 44,000 gallons of water). Any I have micros. While there may be no excuse for it (laziness, probably) my plants don't look so great due to deficiencies. I have my nice planted tank in the living area.

Solution: place plants in a low-to-no-light, HIGHLY fertilized tank (imagine a hold tank in the basement) when they don't look so good. After a few days (or however long, TBD) they should absorb enough nutrients to color up, straighten up, or otherwise cure what ails them. Once they look all right, I can move them back into my other tank. There will be no CO2, and hopefully not enough light for algae problems (only light from the room). If there is algae, I can scrape it off the glass. If it's on the plants, I can stick them in my community tank and those fish can clean it up before I add it to my nicer display tank. The tank will have a HOB filter and a heater. I am aware I can't cure deficiencies related to minerals/nutrients that are only transported during new growth.

Besides the obvious "Why don't you just figure out how to dose your tank right, so your plants are green and you don't have algae", any comments, suggestions, or previous experience?
Thanks!

[Dave-H]

The trauma of the plants moving around might outweigh the beneifts. It seems to me that every time I pull up a plant then replant it, it sort of stunts for a while and takes a long time to recover.

Interesting idea, though

[Optix]

build an inexpensive dosing pump and forget about dosing for months at a time

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sh...419&highlight=

Im about to "upgrade" my fert bottle from 1700ml to a 1 gallon jug (~3780ml --> 6months of 0 effort dosing from 15mins of work making a dosing solution)

...sounds easier than setting up another tank...uprooting plants...buying equipment...then replanting

just a suggestion