What type of root tabs do you guys use and what? Tell me what you swear by and your success stories. I'm curious, I just got the flourish tabs today, and want, need opinions.
I just started using the Gro-soil tabs from Riparium Supply. I broke them up and put under specific plants to test out. So far, so good. Crypts have really responded with faster growth and other plants have colored up much more than before.
I've only tried the flourish tabs. I have about 8 small clumps of micro sword. I put the tabs under 3 of them. The three with tabs sent creepers after a few weeks, the other 5 have not.
I tried diy root tabs, they work pretty good. here's a link about it.
I like it because you can tailor the ingredients to be stronger or weaker or whatever. When I did it I used real pottery clay, mts, iron oxide and greensand as well as some crushed up jobes organic root tabs and two crushed up seachem root tabs.
You put the dirt & fert in the clay, form little tabs, then bake
Yeah Osmocote Plus is hands down the best poly coated slow release pellet. Too bad it has been discontinued. The next best thing is Dynamite plant food, the red container, or Ferti-lome Garden Cote 6. It is a little more than the Dynamite and doesn't contain quite as many nutrients. Get your hands on some Osmocote Plus while you still can!
ive used the ones aquariumplants.com sells for a few years and they work well but as im expanding tanks there getting a bit pricey so i switched to the diy osmocote tabs and they seem to be working well but still early. I decided to try them however because so many members had very positive reviews of them.
I use gro soil tabs also and have had nice growth from all of my plants after adding them. Before those, I was using the flourish root tabs and I see better growth in the plants that now have gro soil tabs.
I just ordered some o+ tabs because of so many great reviews, but I still haven't used the flourish ones either. There sitting on my tank, I have to many plants to plant still lol. The glosso is the hardest still
Has anyone used 16-16-16 to fert there plants in gel caps? I have a bunch of that laying around.
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