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Re: Flourish Trace by SeaChem
At 03:48 PM 3/4/01 -0500, Tom Wood wrote:
> I think the commercial
>sellers would do the hobby and the environment a great service by just
>selling the powdered forms of their products and then instruct consumers to
>go to the grocery store and buy a gallon of distilled water for mixing.
First let me say that for the moment I have a commercial interest in one of
the commercial fertilizers, so my post is not without some bias.
That said, I am told by folks I think know more about this than me that the
compounding of a multi-nutrient trace fertilizer is fraught with
difficulties, mostly involving involuntary formation of a precipitate that
cannot be redissolved or resuspended adequately. This results in totally
inaccurate dosing. If I had heard this from one of the hot heads on this
list (you know who you are) I would have dismissed it, but I heard it from
two of the calmest and levelest heads in this business, and since I respect
their intellect, I have to believe they are telling the truth. Therefore,
I respect their conclusions that shipping concentrate and diluting it later
won't work. Trust me, I tried to beat them into it. I pay the air
freight from Denmark on all the water in TMG.
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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco mailto:gomberg at wcf_com
NEW Planted Aquaria Magazine: http://www.wcf.com/pam
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