Re: [APD] New to keeping plants.

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

You can buy commerical preparations from SeaChem, for example. Or you can order some potassium phosphate from, for another example, gregwatson.com. It's a powder, just add to the tank. If your tap water has none, you can add about 1/4 tsp per 150 gallons, or adjust to suit your growing methods. You can test with a good test kit like Hach or LaMotte and aim for about 1.0 ppm. Add more with water changes or when needed based on tests or observation of plants or BGA. If BGA, then you probably need to add more.
 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Frank I. Reiter <Frank at WonderAndLight_com>
To: aquatic plants digest <aquatic-plants at actwin_com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:24:34 PM
Subject: Re: [APD] New to keeping plants.


The appreciation of phosphate is new since I stopped keeping up.  I 
didn't use PMDD myself, but I dosed a micro-nutrient solution based on 
iron test results, and KNO3 and K2SO4 based on nitrate test results.

How do people usually add phosphate?

Frank.

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