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Flourish experiences
Mike,
You asked recently:
>Could anyone out there relate their experiences using FLOURISH plant
>supplement?? Thanks Mike Bernardoni
Well, I don't even pretend to be an expert so take my experience with a
grain of salt. I have a very, very, low tech tank. It's only 10 gal. and
has a measly 30 watts of light over it. It has a med. size gravel
substrate with about 3 broken up laterite balls in it, 9 small fish, a pH
~7.4, and moderate hardness (which I try to keep low with RO water). I have
a variety of plants. Mostly amazon swords, crypts, two or three stems of
bacopa, and something that looks like a spindley bacopa that I haven't
identified yet. At first I tried Flourish by just adding 6 drops to the
water two times a week and there was absolutely no effect on my plants.
They just stayed listless and didn't grow at all. Then I started adding
about 5 drops directly into the gravel with an eyedropper. One drop per
group of plants. I did this about once every week and a half. Within a
couple of days of the first dose I noticed my sword plants putting out new
leaves and greening up. The the psuedo bacopa began growing, the real
bacopa stopped dying, and the crypts put out new runners.
Overall, I try to keep my plants growing at a rather slow pace because I
dislike pruning. Hence I have no injected CO2 and fertilize sparingly.
The only drawback I've noticed is that the day after fertilizing a clear
film forms on the water and sticks around for almost the rest of the week.
The fish and plants don't mind but its a might unattractive. In general, I
think Flourish is a good supplemental fertilizer but then I haven't tried
many others.
Side note: I noticed the effects of Flourish before I got my hands on the
laterite. I added the laterite about a month after I began dosing Flourish
into the substrate and didn't notice any big change after the addition.
Cindy