So if my tank isn't high tech do I just do 1-2 squirts a week? I've decided not to use Co2, it seems a little bit too complicated.Easy green and Thrive have similar N and K, everything else is different. Easy green doesn’t have copper, which is a micro nutrient.
Also for those who don’t like the nitrate, Thrive only adds 7 ppm nitrate per dose. At the high tech recommendation, which is 3 doses per week, assuming your plants don’t use ANY at all, that’s only 21 ppm added, max.
Yep!So if my tank isn't high tech do I just do 1-2 squirts a week? I've decided not to use Co2, it seems a little bit too complicated.
It's really going to depend on what your plants use. High tech and low tech, in regards to fertilizer, just makes assumptions on how much your plants will eat. You just have to dial it in. Just remember, in normal amounts and ratios, some excess fertilizer won't do anything. As long as your lighting isn't too much, you won't get algae blooms or anything. You are just throwing a bit away with water changes.So if my tank isn't high tech do I just do 1-2 squirts a week? I've decided not to use Co2, it seems a little bit too complicated.
A lot of people that are new to plants will not have a lot of plant mass soaking up nitrates and they are afraid of high doses accumulating. Once the momentum starts going, then you have to adjust to higher nitrate doses. My tank consumes nitrates with or without plants so I have to start dosing and feeding in higher levels and it's starting to show. I'll be whipping up a hotter batch tomorrow myself.I prefer Thrive to Easy Green.
Also, what is up with the negative stigma against nitrates in a planted aquarium? I dose anywhere from 70-90ppm nitrate per week and my fish are super healthy. They are breeding like crazy and grow very fast.
In a lowtech tank, 7ppm nitrate per dose is not enough to hurt fish.
4 planted tanks and I use thrive
I use Thrive C as I do not use co2, I also dose with all of the seachem productsWhich one
I use Thrive C in my Fluval Flex. I also pair it with Seachem root tabs. My plants are growing wonderfully.
-Edit- Thrive C is for low tech planted tanks. I don't use CO2 so Thrive C it is.
I use Thrive C as I do not use co2, I also dose with all of the seachem products
Thrive S for shrimpCan thrive c be used I shrimp tanks? And which thrivevis for co2 tanks
Thrive S for shrimp
Just do thrive S in all three tanks ... if u go to Nilog thrive site I think they claim all thrive is shrimp safe but check wit them firstSo in other words I need 3 different thrive wow that's to much
Just do thrive S in all three tanks ... if u go to Nilog thrive site I think they claim all thrive is shrimp safe but check wit them first
I'll buy a big thrive S or big easy green both are shrimp safe just waiting till friday. Wait do thive ever get black Friday deals? Can't break the pockets already have to pay alotttttttt to get them to hereAll thrive products are safe to use with shrimp, they claim
Most likely the name. The nutrients in either the easy green or thrive are most likely very similar. but willing to bet Thrive may add a bit more of some nutrients in the ingredients list.What's the real differences between thrive and easy green