Macro & Micro Nutrients

**pinkertd** · 08-23-2007, 01:08 PM

This might be a really dumb (can't remember my science) question, but I need to know...... are the contents of macro and micro ferts made up of purely naturally occuring elements and minerals or chemically synthesized elements and minerals?

Debbi

KevinC · 08-23-2007, 01:42 PM

There is no difference in what you buy in a bottle. The periodic table is what it is. Potassium is potassium no matter where it comes from. We don't make potassium in a lab. Only marketers want you to belive that something called "natural" is better than some other product. It is just hype - and in some cases the "natural" product for your own health could be worse since many of these types of products (herbal remedies . . .) are not FDA regulated. If I wanted, I could start selling my own "Ginseng" tablets today - and you'd have no way to know what I was actually selling you.

In the case of a planted tank, I guess you could call fish the "natural" fertilizer. Anything else you would buy most likely went through some sort of purification process before getting to you anyway.

08-23-2007, 01:08 PM	#1
pinkertd Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (74/100%) Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Belvidere, New Jersey Posts: 411	Macro & Micro Nutrients This might be a really dumb (can't remember my science) question, but I need to know...... are the contents of macro and micro ferts made up of purely naturally occuring elements and minerals or chemically synthesized elements and minerals? Debbi

08-23-2007, 01:42 PM	#2
KevinC Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (6/100%) Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oshkosh, WI Posts: 687	There is no difference in what you buy in a bottle. The periodic table is what it is. Potassium is potassium no matter where it comes from. We don't make potassium in a lab. Only marketers want you to belive that something called "natural" is better than some other product. It is just hype - and in some cases the "natural" product for your own health could be worse since many of these types of products (herbal remedies . . .) are not FDA regulated. If I wanted, I could start selling my own "Ginseng" tablets today - and you'd have no way to know what I was actually selling you. In the case of a planted tank, I guess you could call fish the "natural" fertilizer. Anything else you would buy most likely went through some sort of purification process before getting to you anyway. __________________ Kevin 72g bowfront planted, CO2, 2x - T5HO, Eheim 2213 and 2013, red tiger lotus, vals, java fern and moss, crypts, swords, mbuna tank: Yellow labs, Ps. demasoni, clown plecos, SAE's. 10g mini-reef. 16lbs LR, green mushroom, star polyps, wagon wheel polyps, purple mushroom, candycane, hammer, other zoas, CUC.

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