[APD] Seachem Equilibrium & Urban Legend?

["Rachel Sandage" <rachelsor at hotmail_com>]

I was at my LFS recently talking about problem I'm having growing certain 
plants (including willow hygro) where the growth is all twisted and stunted. 
Here in the greater Portland, OR area we have very soft water (we call it 
liquid silk), so I add baking soda and Equilibrium to raise the KH and GH. 
The fish store emplyess told me that At some point Seachem had gotten the 
Mg/Ca ratio wrong, so that there was too much Mg and not enough Ca, but had 
so many of the old labels that the new, corrected formula still had the old 
labels, so there was no way to tell which formulation was in any given 
bottle. True, or Urban Legend?

Later on that weekend I had a chance to corner, I mean chat with, Karen 
Randall about the same problem. She also thought it sounded like a Ca 
deficiency, or possibly an Mg overdose.

Could it be that I have "bad" Equilibrium? I am thinking about going to 
straight CaCO3 for a week or two to test this out, but I wondered if anybody 
had any information or thoughts about this?

You can see an example of the stunting at
http://groups.msn.com/rsfish/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=94.
Bonus points if you can ID the plant.

Thanks,
Rachel
(hoping this post makes sense; still woozy from a great weekend at the 
Greater Portland Aquarium Society show)

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