I've seen some use as much as 30% to 35% dosing before now, it's all depends on what species of fast growing stem plants or how many plants you have. From your images your are needing more ferts, 15ml might be enough for a while but as the plants grow and develop your dosing will have increase to cover what the plants need.Benville wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:03 am Mixing my own, using the kit below:
https://www.aquariumplantfood.co.uk/fer ... r-kit.html
It recommends 10ml per 50L, so with my 240L I would dose 48ml, but then I read without CO2 you go down to 20% so I was trying 10ml. Last 3 doses have been 15ml now and I was going to monitor. I've tried reading up on EI but it seems the more I read the more I find it confusing and it gets pretty math-sy, and my brain isn't what it used to be.
Your instructions are most probably the same but here's Tom Barr's recommendation for dosing a aquarium size you have.
Nutrient target ranges in parts per million (ppm) for EI Dosing:
Nitrate (NO3) range 20-30 ppm
Potassium (K) range 15-30 ppm
Phosphate (PO4) range 2-6 ppm
(Fe) range 0.5-1ppm (or higher in some cases)
For your aquarium water volume as follows;
+/- 3/4 teaspoon KN03 3x a week
+/- 3/16 teaspoon KH2P04 3x a week
+/- ¼ teaspoon Trace 3x a week
50% weekly water change