Fertilizers

How to use dry fertilisers to make your own fertiliser? Follow this guide.

Fertilizer labels can be confusing. This is how to read fertilizer labels for your planted tank or aquarium.

Do you need to fertilise your planted aquarium? What kind of nutrients do plants need to grow well? This comprehensive guide will give you the lowdown on planted tank fertiliser 101.

Somewhere along the way the hobby came to the belief that plants with large root systems are "root feeders" while stem plants with smaller root systems feed through their leaves... so is it true that root feeders will do better with root fertiliser in your planted tank?

The ultimate dosage guide for planted aquariums. So you know what to dose. But exactly how much? Here we look at the details of 2 popular approaches to fertiliser dosing for planted aquariums: EI and ADA, plus a middle ground...

Why are my plants not growing well? Nutrient deficiency is often not the answer...

Nitrate limitation is the term used by advanced aquascapers to describe the strategy of unlocking the richest, deepest possible coloration in selected plant species that respond well to those conditions.

Should we use root tablets or dose directly into the water column for your planted tank? What works and why...

Why are my aquatic plants yellowing or stunting? Does my planted tank have a nutrient deficiency? What nutrients do my aquatic plants need? This guide discuss plant nutrients and deficiency in planted tank.

Do I really need fertilizers for my aquarium? There are so many choices in the market- which is the right one for me?

The short answer is that you should start dosing water column fertilizers as soon as you have plants in the new tank and no later.

New plants have no established root system, which limits their ability to draw nutrients from the soil.

This seductively easy path is unfortunately heavily based on survivorship bias. The few examples that do make it are paraded as the norm when it is not a dependable method for most folks.