Does Flourish And Flourish Excel?

I bought some flourish excel and flourish liquid fertilizers along with root tabs to help my plants grow. My question is how much of each do I use and how often? How long should I have my lights on? It's a 10 gallon tank. With a current algae problem.

 

I would start at 6hrs for the light until you get the algae under control. Recommend dosing the excel at the initial dose printed on the bottle 5ml per 1 0 gallons daily until the algae is gone.
Excel is a mild algaecide, would not recommend the products in stores to kill algae. I dose at this rate daily anyway so its safe for you tank. Do you have any vals, they can be sensitive to excel.

Would dose the Flourish once a week as its only trace elements anyway.
Trace elements are needed by plants in fairly small quantities and are called micros. N-p-k are nitrogen, phoshhate, &ptassium (macros) which are needed in larger quantites in high tech tanks. Npk are the elements used on house plants and lawns, for low tech easy to grow aquatic plants these are helpful for increased growth but the plants will grow without them.

Would be helpful to know your tank size, what light you have and distance from light to the substrate to provide additional tips to reduce the algae.

 

I've been using plain Flourish for past 30 days, I add 5ml every 2-3 days. I also have root tabs which seem like kicked in week and half later for my rooted plants. Yesterday I finally got better lighting, I had 2x t8 6500k 13watt bulbs.
Now I have 10k 7200 lumen LED fixture under 50 bucks. Cant wait to see results in a week or 2

Long story short, all plants that needed light were dying out slowly, all other plants that required root tabs and water micro-nutrients improved. Hope this will give you bit of idea what to expect.

This is in 55 gallon tank.

 

Flourish and Flourish Excel have dosing instructions on the bottle. For Excel, skip the loading dose and just go with the maintenance dose.

Root tabs will need to be replaced every few months.

 

I would start at 6hrs for the light until you get the algae under control. Recommend dosing the excel at the initial dose printed on the bottle 5ml per 1 0 gallons daily until the algae is gone.
Excel is a mild algaecide, would not recommend the products in stores to kill algae. I dose at this rate daily anyway so its safe for you tank. Do you have any vals, they can be sensitive to excel.

Would dose the Flourish once a week as its only trace elements anyway.
Trace elements are needed by plants in fairly small quantities and are called micros. N-p-k are nitrogen, phoshhate, &ptassium (macros) which are needed in larger quantites in high tech tanks. Npk are the elements used on house plants and lawns, for low tech easy to grow aquatic plants these are helpful for increased growth but the plants will grow without them.

Would be helpful to know your tank size, what light you have and distance from light to the substrate to provide additional tips to reduce the algae.

Tank is 10 gallons and I use a chihiros light

 

These are the plants as you can see there's a lot of algae, I have my light on for 10 hours a day as recommended by the internet but I will change it to 6. Also my light has white light and blue lights with red, should I only keep the colours on or just the white light or both? And at what brightness?

 

What setting do you have the chihiros on????
Is it the single color or 5 color?
How long are your lights on for?

You are going to need more then just flourish for your tank
You can get separate bottles of seachem nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus and use the comprehensive as trace.


Alternately you can change ferts to thrive by nilocg or plant food by ultum nature systems. Both are all in ones that have more macros.

The more lighting you give, the more you ask the plants to grow. They more they grow, the more nutrients they will need.

I would likely double dose excel about an hr before lights on. This dose will help control new algae, but likely won't do much for the algae already existing. However, it will also boost the carbon levels in the tank that in combination will full ferts will support the plants growth over the algae.

Can you post a close up of the algae you are having issues with?

For a ten gallon I would start with lights on the fifth setting for five hrs. After two weeks if you notice an improvement increase photoperiod by 30min a week/two weeks. Chances are you will max out at 6-6.5 hrs on the fifth setting....
(I have the chihiros on many tanks)