Dosing Easy Green

[johnnyR2025]

Just received Easy Green 120ml fertilizer.  The dosing directions show 2 drops for every 1 gallon.  With my 40 gallon breeder tank that’s 80 drops!

I only have 2 Java Ferns,  a small bunch of Java moss and 2 Anubis’s plants besides a medium group of root feeding plants that I will feed with your Easy Root Tabs.

Since I have only 5 water column feeding plants 80 drops seems excessive.

Please advise

Thanks For all responses.

 

[FLFishChik]

According to the 500ml bottle it’s 1ml per 10g

You can always start with less and increase your dose as needed. 

Edited April 12 by FLFishChik

[johnnyR2025]

Thanks FLFishChik for the rapid response.

That sounds more reasonable.

[JoeQ]

The small bottle is for nano tanks, hence the dose recommendation measured in drops. For a 40 gallon you'll probably blow through that bottle pretty fast!

[Moose]

yeah seconding @FLFishChik -- the dose you need is going to depend on your plants and the bioload of your fish (more fish = generally, less need to fertilize as plants are getting more nutrients from waste). The 1 ml (1 pump on the larger bottle) per 10 gal is a good starting point, but it's one of those 'observe and adjust' things....I've got the opposite situation going on with a heavily planted 15 gal tank that has at the moment, very few fish, so I've found twice the recommended dose of fertilizer is a better level for my tank, at least with the current amount of livestock. I'd pick a consistent starting amount, give it about a month so it has some time to make an impact, and adjust based on what you're seeing. 

[johnnyR2025]

Thanks Moose.

Will do.  Just got back into tankful of live plants in this 40g community fish tank.  Next project will be to add a dirt substrate!

[johnnyxxl]

I adjusted based on 3 times a week testing