Best Root Tabs

[LordBarron7692]

Soo.... just wondering do you all use root tabs and if so which ones do you use?

[TattedUpFishGuy]

Seachem flourish tabs is what I use, they last 3 or 4 months and do a great job

[LordBarron7692]

Yeah that's normally what I use but have been hearing alot of good things about osmocote plus

[TattedUpFishGuy]

Oh I've heard the same as well on the osmocote plus but I haven't tried em yet. The seachem tabs combined with co2 injection and flourish excel does wonders!


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[TattedUpFishGuy]

Of course co2 and flourish excel would do great with probably any tabs lol. What type of lighting do you have, and what size tank?Just curious

[LordBarron7692]

I have a 90 gal tank no co2 with led lights thinking about going with co2 but will probably have to change lights ad well

[TattedUpFishGuy]

Nice! Yes I plan on anywhere from a 90-200g uprade and selling both my 55's. I have LEDs on my 30G Oscar tank and love them

[Crush]

same here..flourish tabs

[mnemenoi]

I have tried some osmocote plus tabs (am a die hard flourish fan), they were crazy heavy in iron and had numerous tank imbalance issues afterwards. Lesson learned and will stick with Seachem from now on

[LordBarron7692]

Thanks Roy while doing research I only came across one other person that even mentioned have an imbalance with osmocote but haven't seen or heard of anyone having problems with Seachem but it gets kinda expensive

[mnemenoi]

It does indeed, our issue was Iron. They were crazy heavy in it and we were unaware at the time. It was only after breaking the tank down and removing the substrate that we realized the glass was stained with rust and the substrate was red under the surface. It could be they were using a non chelated Iron and assuming it acted the same. Not really sure, but that was our only real issue with them. I suppose if we had some heavy Iron feeding swords it might have been a bit different. Think we still have a few bags of them laying around

[LordBarron7692]

so I'm thinking of stepping my game up not sure about changing out lights just yet though as the led's have been growing the plants well, but will definitely be adding co2 to the tank.

[TattedUpFishGuy]

Yezzurr co2 will do the trick!

[morpheus]

i use flourish root tabs myself, and i dont do CO2. i used to dose with Excel, but ran out a ways back. i probably should pick that up again at some point, but plants seem to be doing descent. i am sure they could be greener, but i havent killed them yet which is a plus in my book

[LordBarron7692]

yeah mine too lol. right now I dose with excel and flourish but have been looking into the diy root tabs as its like almost ten bucks for 8 or 9 from seachem but trying to decide the specifics of add pressurized co2 sooo diffuser or reactor?