Iron Deficiency

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McgJosh

Discussion Starter · Aug 23, 2007

I noticed new growth on all of my plants is very yellow, so I assume I have an iron deficiency. I went to the lfs and saw they had flourish and flourish iron. I decided to go with regular flourish, because I figured it was a good idea to have that anyway, and if I started dosing just iron, my plants would run out of some other nutrient. Good idea?

So I just started dosing flourish today, with about 2.5 ml for my 37 gallon. I am wondering if the yellow leaves will start to turn green, or if those will stay yellow and new growth will be green?

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frozenbarb

· #2 · Aug 23, 2007

2.5 ml for a 37 gallon ? Will that be Enough?..

Im not sure there will be enough Iron to turn the leafs back to green..

Like Rex said. FLourish is a Supplement.. not food

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McgJosh

Discussion Starter · #3 · Aug 23, 2007

Well the bottle says 5ml treats 60 gallons. So 2.5ml would treat 30 gallons, and there isn't much more water than that. Do you think I should add more?

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PhotoJon01

· #4 · Aug 23, 2007

I really don't know too much about dosing yet. As I am just starting that adventure!

I had a similar problem and dosed both Iron and Potassium. I am not sure which worked (should have done them seperately for trial and error purposes), but it does take some time for the leaves to regain color with a low-tech tank. My leaves are starting to recolor and the growth has really picked back up over the past two weeks. I would give it some time. You can always dose more later on.

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frozenbarb

· #5 · Aug 23, 2007

OK then dont add more.. though i doubt such little would help

You need to Buy the fert that are Food ,Potassium,Nitrogen,Phosphorus.

Or you could go With Dr Watson Dry Fert

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McgJosh

Discussion Starter · #6 · Aug 23, 2007

frozenbarb said:
You need to Buy the fert that are Food ,Potassium,Nitrogen,Phosphorus.

I understand those are the macro nutrients, and I am dosing micros. However, right now I have a symptom, and I am trying to treat it. If that goes away and in a month I see symptoms that lead me to believe I have a deficiency in one of the macro nutrients, I will dose that.

Is there anywhere that tells what ppm of each nutrient flourish will dose to?

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frozenbarb

· #7 · Aug 23, 2007

http://www.seachem.com/products/product_pages/Flourish.html

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McgJosh

Discussion Starter · #8 · Aug 23, 2007

Is it possible to turn those percentages into ppm?

Also, do you guys refrigerate your flourish? I would prefer not to, and they say it is not required. What do you think?

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PhotoJon01

· #9 · Aug 23, 2007

I refrigerate. I think its a pain too, but I would hate for it to go bad.

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