Plant Fert Dosing Schedule?

I'm finding so much conflicting info about ferts and when to dose. I use to just dose flourish weekly (the day after a water change) and call it good. I’ve since added a brighter plant light and some pickier plants. In my junk trunk of chemicals I have Thrive S, flourish comprehensive, flourish root tabs, excel. I use Prime for water changes. Just curious if I’m supposed to wait a day after wc due to prime. Really dose excel every other day? Can I alternate flourish and thrive or use together? Lights on or off? Hallllp! Any advice welcome. Thanks.
I have:
Alternanthera ReineckiI
Ludwigia Ovalis
Java fern
Anubias
Moss balls

Inhabitants:
Corydoras habrosus
Cpd’s
Mystery snails and a nerite

 

Honestly I would say it's more of what your plants like and what your goal is. If you're wanting a jungle, keep dosing weekly and maybe add another type of fertilizer to it. If you're wanting to maintain and keep plants happy, just play around with scheduling on a monthly basis(since it takes plants a while to do their thing) and adjust it to what you are after(too much growth cut back a little, not enough increase it a little)

 

The java fern anubias and moss balls won’t be using up much of those ferts simply because they are slow growing. The ludwigia will use the bulk of them as it grows faster. I don’t see why you would need thrive (a complete Fert) and flourish at the same time.

Also, what substrate do you have?

 

Thanks both...I have sand. I only bought thrive after adding the ludwigia and reineckii, the others were great on flourish. Just didn’t want to waste a whole bottle. Lol. Does prime affect any of these?

 

Yea, with sand, since it has no "nutritional" value, dosing is the thing to do. Prime should be balanced to have no effect on them as they should be balanced to not contain any heavy metals or chlorine that it's designed to pull from the water column

 

I did an 18/6 on/off cycle with my lights but I used potting soil with sand and small gravel layers as a topper so my plants did a bit too well and I didn't have any algae problems. That's another one of those see what you can get away with situations. 12/12 or 8/16 are good cycles depending on algae growth

 

I did an 18/6 on/off cycle with my lights but I used potting soil with sand and small gravel layers as a topper so my plants did a bit too well and I didn't have any algae problems. That's another one of those see what you can get away with situations. 12/12 or 8/16 are good cycles depending on algae growth

Ok thank so much. I was doing 12/12 and algae boomed! Then I got excel, trying to up the time on again. I’ll just have to play around I guess.

 

And two pumps of thrive 2-3 times a week shall get stupid expensive,

 

Root tabs are a big help for me even with co2 and ferts. Before co2, I tried excell and it melted my crypts. Be careful increasing the dose on excel. I've had good results with "all in one" products while supplementing iron separately.

 

If you have Thrive S lying around I would totally use that instead. Flourish is really light on nutrients. Think of flourish as a salad and Thrive (even S which is less concentrated) as a 3 course meal. No harm in using flourish once in a while as well, it has a couple micros thrive doesn't have.

 

Thank you all, I’ll continue to play around with it, fingers crossed that I don’t kill everything. Ha!