[AquaticLife] planted tanks.
Depends on the needs of the plants. Many plants do not need any special lighting, CO2 or nutrients… others need all three.
Do you know what kind of plants you have? What kind of lighting do you have? Do you have a fully stocked tank or lightly stocked tank? Before adding any nutrients, it’s best to know more about your existing ecology otherwise the nutrients could end up feeding an algae bloom, rather than the plants.
I have a recent blog about “Planted Tank - So you want a planted tank!” and there are links to lists of some easy and very easy plants. See if your plants fall into those categories. If they don’t, then while at Plantgeek.net, try to find the profiles on your plants to find out what their needs are.
Let us know which plants, fish, tank set-up, etc., that you have and we can help better.
I’ve never found the need for an Iron Test and all of my tanks have live plants but I do stick with the easy and very easy plants that do well with regular aquarium lights, normal substrate and nutrients provided. I also have harder water with lots of minerals and chemicals in it so my water probably provides lots of essential micronutrients.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas eve and day.
Lenny Vasbinder Fish Blog - http://GoldLenny.blogspot.com (Links to any articles referenced in above reply are listed on the right side, alphabetically under Labels and also under Archives by Year, Month)
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