Everything You Need to Know About All-In-One Liquid Fertilizers for Planted Aquariums Fertilizer 101

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It's time to take a closer look at the most popular fertilizer for aquariums, liquid all-in-one fertilizers. Whether you use Aquarium Co-Op's Easy Green, NilocG Thrive, Brightwell's Florin Multi, Dustin's Grow Juice, Seachem Flourish or any of the many, many fertilizers out there, this video will tell you all you need to know about why they're great and what problems can occur with them.
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@ajctropicals1704 4 года назад

These videos are great Bentley! Appreciate the time and effort you put into making these to help us all, hats off to you man, great job.

@boebender 8 месяцев назад

I’m slowly getting through your video content. Man!! You’re great!!! Thank you for all your teachings and expertise.

@TheChubbyGuppy 4 года назад

The daily dose is the way to go! Especially for shrimp keepers. Most micro nutrients oxidize and bind up into unusable forms in hours. Precipitating out of the water column. I have read some research suggesting dosing at about 1/3 of the way into your light cycle for maximum uptake. Loving the series Bentley!

@clayd9477 4 года назад

Thanks Bentley for putting in the work to break all this info down for us!

@clayd9477 4 года назад

Also I use easy green in the Northeast corner of the US. Have not tried others

@zeftlovescats2433 3 года назад

Tropica specialized is my favorite all in one, Ada brighty k and mineral are my favorite two bottles to use in my display tanks ;) Lean fertilization style, like green aqua.

@MT88_YouTube 4 года назад

Great intro to liquid fertilizers!

@alexkostel3777 4 года назад

Thank you. I am currently using easy green, and I used to use api leaf zone. Easy green is so much better for my plants. I used to dose 1 or 2 times a week, but I started dosing a little each day and things are looking better, less algae.

@claytongrubbs2045 2 года назад

Awesome video man, it really helped me understand some of the issues I am having

@josemontalvo4532 8 месяцев назад

I used Aquarium Co-op Liquid fertilizers for years. I used Easy Green, the Red one and the other one. I got out of aquarium Fish keeping, because I moved to Florida from Arizona. I will get into it once again. My made and sold my own Root Tabs. I used Mexican Red Clay and Crushed Egg Shells, and those worked out great for me. Every three months I would dose my Root Tabs. I would use the Aquarium Co-op Liquid Fertilizers as directed. Using the siesta 4 hour off and 4.5 hours twice a day have my plants very healthy. When I lived in Arizona, I had people from San Diego, El Centro, California coming over to Yuma, Arizona to buy my plants and Root Tabs. I would make 5 times my money back on the 5 LBS box of Red Mexican Clay. I grew all kinds of plants too. I sold Mostly Red and Green plants.

@benoitlevesque9609 2 года назад

Planted tank newbie, thanks to I diagnosed a Nitrogen deficiency, turs out I was used to do too big water changes and was starving my plants! Skipped a water change and already seeing new growth in my annubias even though I am barely breaking 5 PPm of Nitrates. Thanks man!

@BentleyPascoe 2 года назад

Glad this helped!

@TankTastic 4 года назад

Thanks for the information per usual. What I want to know is, who the hell gave this a thumbs down?

@damionmarkham9835 4 года назад

I started with seachem , then found out I needed the whole line . Was kinda fun being sciencey and using different bottles threw the week . Then I found out about thrive , then ended up ordering easy green because I've been following Cory since the beginning and wanted to support him and get a variety of stuff in one order . Still want to try thrive but I have a jug of easy green . Currently interested in trying the tropica with out nitrate in tanks that nitrate run high and also getting some thrive s for my shrimp . I use easy iron sparingly because it can cause algae problems but benefit red plants and growth . I use easy carbon even though I know better because the plant game is still new to me and I have a variety of algae issues . all in one's are great but I'm seeing the benefits of having individual supplements around if needed

@StanTheObserver-lo8rx 4 года назад

I never dosed until November,any aquarium..had been super low tech. Now that I've gotten on that mule,I see. Iron is an absolute. Potassium is next..and even with many rainbows fed many times a day in portions and variety ,I still see a need for jolt of nitrogen aka acid loving plant ferts that are high moly and iron and others. I don't have Co2..but I do have sunlight and that makes plants metabolize much more than the usual LED or fluorescent lights. If you want a more professional looking water garden? You HAVE to do more. That's for life too!

@seandaly6378 3 года назад

I appreciate your talks every time

@kerrypitt9789 2 года назад

My two favorites are Aquarium Co-op Easy Green and Thrive "S" both are Shrimp friendly and simple to use. Bentley I started dosing daily, because my average planted tank has zero ppm of Nitrates. I tend to plant heavily to keep Nitrates down, but sometimes that is too much and then you use all of the Nitrates in the water column and it can start starving your plants. I mix it up with root tabs quite often, as well as adding more liquid fertilizer. It is a bit of A balance act. If you start with R/O water, you need an everything type of Fertilizer. The other thing I have begun over a month ago, is a dirted tank. It is great method to apply to your planted tank. Anyway, thanks as always, a greatly helpful video!

@RWAquariumPages 2 года назад

what a great informative series, i'm going to share with my local aquascaping and planted groups! keep up the great work and i lol at the thumbs comment!

@willparsons32 8 месяцев назад

Hmm.. dosing once a day is easy if you do the math... First thing is is that one need to determine the amount of light they're pushing into their water column (low or high) always follow the instructions on the bottle but just make sure you know what your light par is.

@henriquealves5464 3 года назад

Nice video! Thanks for sharing! Greentings from Brazil!

@warriors475 4 года назад

Bentley what can i say another great series of videos what would we do without you

@javonr7794 3 года назад

Another great video!! I find the topics you talk about very informative!!!

@newmexicoaquatics282 4 года назад

Love your videos Bentley. Thank you for these overviews and primers. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby

@bradfowler4488 4 года назад

Thanks Bentley. I have been using easy green but looking into others for the knowledge and other reasons. I have hard but acidic water during winter months.

@shawnwitte216 4 года назад

I use the Aquarium Co-Op brand of fertilizers and they are working well for me right now. I have a high-tech 29 gallon that I dose Easy Green twice weekly and Easy Iron every other day....I get insane red coloration on my banana plants, lilies, crypts, bacopa, etc. Growth is so rapid I have to propogate nearly every week. For substrate, I have standard gravel but add Easy Root Tabs. I wish I would have used a planted tank substrate, but what I've done instead is every couple months I sprinkle Fluval Stratum throughout the tank...it seems to work its way down through the gravel to get to the plant roots (I'm guessing the Malaysian trumpet snails are helping with that). Didn't want to change the gravel on a two-year old tank so I experimented with the Statum and it seems to be working for me! Great videos like always :)

@chevyfish4028 4 года назад

I sporadically use easy green. Rarely iron. Years ago was Flourish & Excel but not on any schedule. I'm hoping to learn more of the "difficult" plants along with their needs. I have easy low light plants for the most part. I hope to have the ability to be as good with aquarium plants as I've been with fish. Thanks for being my teacher Bentley.

@deletethemedia3445 2 года назад

Just started my journey down the Bentley Pascoe rabbit hole! Did a lot of research before starting my first planted tank. Started off low tech then added co2 after six months. Things have gone downhill since then. My plants are suffering because everything is covered in diatoms and I can't get rid of it. Three days after removing as much off the leaves by hand and a 60% water change, it is covered again. Thinking of going back to low tech until I get more experience. As for the topic of this video, I use Thrive!

@Airdaman1 Год назад

I had this on my first tank with no co2.

@jaxntax5509 4 года назад

I use easy green from co-op I have used flourish and sechem but with both in my water I had algae issues with Easy green no issues. I live in Washington State near Olympia. My water is very soft. I use Tums for my calcium that I do add about every ten days 1 1000 mg tab per 10 gallons but that is different in my 29s and my 40s. I add Iron too mostly for color. I too have root feeders well mostly.

@Handygrrl 7 месяцев назад

Using Nilocg Thrive C in my guppy fry breeding tanks with adults and their fry in nurseries, in a heavily planted tank with med-high lights are on 12 hours a day and ZERO ALGAE. It's a keeper! No algae in other tanks either.

@softaco3088 2 года назад

Do well with Thrive +. 75g tank with Plant 3.0 lighting at 100% other than the Blue 5%, C02, 6.6 PH and dirted substrate.

@mikefrost1312 Год назад

I gave up on tank fertilizers & just started letting my fish BE the fertilizer lol. Heavy feeding once a week makes some extra waste & the plants LOVE it

@damiangrouse4564 3 года назад

Saw the video over a week ago and tried the one light pump of Easy Green a day…no bueno for me…Algae and leaves coated with brown/black crap (forget name). equipment: fluval 32.5G tank with two aquasky lights, seachem planted substrate granted not as thickly planted as the tank in the background. Maybe as I get more growth that will work.for now I’ve cut out any fertilizer, halved the blue light setting and started feeding a bit lighter to get the hillstream loaches, molies, ghost shrimp and mystery snail to work a little harder

@damiangrouse4564 3 года назад

@ThenX Everything was fine till that point the lights are set at exactly the same parameters the only thing they do is provide better front to back coverage needed because of the wood and rocks in use and the fact that the cover brings the lights very close to the water surface. BTW, I didn’t say nor did I have any issues with easy green used as directed. My problem started because i thought the once a day application would work for anything other than a “jungle”.

@ryan-xr1st 3 года назад

I use Seachem in a zero water change tank. It works pretty well since it does not have a lot of nitrogen

@timchancey7859 4 года назад

Another great moment...Have 10 tanks from 10 gal to 30 hi an 5 tanks from 1.5 gal to 2 gal, an 3 ponds out side. Having to redo all after contracting a beast of a disease from a breeder in this social circle. The meds wrecked my live plants. But by over dosing Easy Green from aquarium co-OP I was able to save most an they are come back .

@ejfishes7610 4 года назад

I have had the most success with Easy Green. Great content Bentley!

@garyduncan6657 2 года назад

I am thinking about trying Brightwell Florin Multi instead of Easy Green. I have noticed Brightwell doesn't have nitrogen in it and does have a few things Easy Green doesn't. What are the benefits of using 1 over the other? Thank you Sir.

@jayjohnson2322 4 года назад

I use dirt from my back yard/swamp and plants grow at an unreal pace. Mostly stem plants and a few val. I am getting bad bba now after 2-3 yrs

@davidkinch2100 4 года назад

RO water, seachem equilibrium to a kh of 3 or about 150tds. Then daily dose of tropica the green bottle and a couple drips every two days of seachem iron now that I have reds in the tank. Co2 and high lighting.

@XxSwagGamersxX 3 года назад

I went from dosing 1 time a week on my 30 gallon with easy green, now I dose 3 times a week and my nitrates are alway under 20 mostly 10

@edstaart8548 4 года назад

I try and have the impression it works for me: 2 different brands of "all in one"; I use them both but one at the time and I think they do more for my plants than just one. I used them both exclusive for a few months but using both makes my plants healthier it seems. The only difference between the two is one contains nitrates.( for as far as I read the bottle) .

@vb2377 4 года назад

Fish Poo is the best ferts for low tech

@olivezelm5897 4 года назад

Thank you for demystifying tank fertilizers! To answer your posting request: I started my first planted tank with (what I realize now was) too many root tabs-algae hell ensued 😭. Now that the tabs have expired (and I got a mystery snail and 3 ottos), zero algae issues! In the interest of keeping the plants healthy, I've just started dosing Aquarium Co-Op's all in one this week... I'm hopeful, but worried about my snail. Their promo video for the stuff shows lots of happy snails cruising around, so I hope that's their non-verbal way a saying this stuff is safe for invertebrates. 🤞🏼

@GirlTalksFish 4 года назад

Yup, it's safe for snails. :)

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

I can also confirm, safe for inverts. I've used it with snails and shrimp for years now

@FridayFishFacts 3 года назад

Very well explained

@MsLila44 3 года назад

It might depend on your areas water quality and mineral content as to what substrate to use.

@KeViN-wg5xs 3 года назад

I was using seachem but the price is crazy, i just order thrive all in one for my 55, 🤞here's to a change ill up date..

@anthonybrown8158 4 года назад

I use aquarium Co-Op easy green. And my on diy root tabs

@mamag8753 3 года назад

I use easy green and root tabs.

@pugamusmaximus 4 года назад

Thrive made my plants grow way better than Easy green. I think Easy green changed the formula so i may try them again.

@cesarcabanillas9333 3 года назад

New subscribers I’ve been looking for a channel like yours can’t wait till I go on Christmas vacation to binge watch your channel new to planted tanks the bad thing is that I started off with a high tech tank lol shooting CO2 in it and now started using the brightwell multiflorin+ I hope all goes well

@3982snyd 4 года назад

NA thrive. Dealing with BBA lately and seem to have high nitrates. Thinking of switching to easy green.

@jcarney502 4 года назад

Nice video but what is your favorite all-in-one fertilizer

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

I've used Easy Green for a long time, but currently using Brightwell Florin Multi which has been very nice

@randicornell9849 4 года назад

I've been using easy green 😊 Still trying to find a good balance with lights and nutrients.

@martylavender7854 4 года назад

Yea Buddy, Go Hawks!!

@michaelloncaric7081 2 года назад

Been using Shultz for fifty years🤝‼️

@ludokerfluffle6232 2 года назад

Good talk. Can iron supplement pills be used like root tabs?

@Panoslrf Год назад

I ve been using flourish and tropica specialised...can t say i saw something different.I ve also used tropica root tabs,same with those...I ll try cutting flourish and switching to tr.special and tabs only to check.I just worry that spexialised has no expiration date on it...Usually ferts expire after certain time

@BentleyPascoe Год назад

Usually the expiration is tied to the non-ferts. All our ferts are just salts and can keep effectively indefinitely, but the trace amounts of binders to keep them suspended in liquid and not settling can expire.

@heroshotaquatics 4 года назад

I’m enjoying this series👍. Quick question, using EZ green in my heavily planted and stocked 40 breeder, constantly fighting beard algae. I was thinking of switching to the orange Tropica, forgot the name, because it’s low in N, and think my fish are producing plenty... Any thoughts? Water parameters (pH 7.8, fighting to keep nitrates at 20ppm, KH and GH off the scale, temp 75-77. Thanks again for the fert info

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

Typically when I get BBA, it's because I've been over feeding - I do love spoiling my fish! Try feeding half as much as you normally do, maybe feed every other day or just a lighter amount per day. Monitor that for a couple weeks and see if the BBA stops spreading. If so, its phosphates out of what and not specifically the nitrates. If that has no impact, then look at the low-nitrate fertilizer and see how that treats you.

@ctsfiddler Год назад

I like to use platies, man do they fertilize.

@swatch12345 4 года назад

What is the best ratio of macro and micros? Should the N-P-K be like 2 parts Nitrogen for 1.5 parts Phosphorus to 1 part Potassium? Curious of how it compares to regular terrestrial plants. Like a "starter" or "flowering" fertilizer would be a 5-20-10 or similar. High in Phosphorus to push the root structure or secondary functions of the plant as in flowers and fruit. Something like a lawn food would be almost all nitrogen since you just want foliar green growth. I wonder how that would change for aquarium plants that grow under water. Is the limiting factor CO2 since is dissolved in the water?

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

Typically if you want to push flowering for example, you'd want boron, but rather than pick each one, let me go with a broader and more important view point. All of this depends on your water. If you have water like mine here in Seattle where there's basically nothing in it, I would say keep a balanced overall nutrient load, basically following the EI method, and a bit of patience will pay off much more than playing with pushing certain nutrients for specific results. Hope that makes sense and I'll try to cover more when we do EI and powdered ferts.

@swatch12345 4 года назад

@@BentleyPascoe Yeah it does for sure. My water here in Norcal is very soft as well. I've been using Nilocg Thrive which seems to work pretty well although I usually run out of nitrates in 4 to 5 days. Maybe I should split the dosage in half and do it twice a week. Have you ever used the PPS Pro method? Seems like just a roundabout way to make your own All-in-one just with dry ferts.

@TypicalMT 4 года назад

Finally found the video, I don’t know what’s wrong with my tank, I have a 10 gallon, I’d say 80% of the substrate is planted, I have been dosing full dose of not 1.5 doses everyday, I don’t ever go more than 20 nitrates, and I’m still seeing signs of deficiencies... I have only a tiny bit of algae on a few leaves and I have a spot of hair algae I’ve isolated on one spot of the driftwood

@TypicalMT 4 года назад

Ferts I use, thrive aio, easy iron, easy carbon, flourish advanced, dosing everyday for the most part I’ll skip a day like once a week.

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

Which deficiency are you seeing?

@TypicalMT 4 года назад

Bentley Pascoe I’m not too sure exactly, when I look from underneath my crypts I see pinholes, and some crypts and my tiger lotus is starting to consume itself and the older leaves are starting to melt away!

@iowainterstaterailroadfan6543 3 года назад

I've been using Aquarium Co-op Easy green and their root tabs for my plants. I'm very new to keep aquatic plants and I'm kind of struggling on knowing if what I'm doing is working. Some plants have new growth and others don't. I have some swords that the leaves are browning and other plants the steams look thin at the base. To be fair I just went to my local fish store and asked for an assortment of plants not really knowing 100% what I was getting (not a good idea on my part). So now I'm trying to identify plants and figure out what is "normal" for that plant.

@BentleyPascoe 3 года назад

The swords almost certainly were grown emersed and are converting.

@desireeallen3805 3 года назад

What one do you recommend for a newbie for planted aquarium?

@BentleyPascoe 3 года назад

Liquid all-in-one like Easy Green or Brightwell Florin Multi

@desireeallen3805 3 года назад

@@BentleyPascoe can you send me the links for those please.

@BugzNBeanz 4 года назад

Is it a good rule of thumb to dose your fertilizer immediately after a water change? Or is it better to leave the new water alone a day or two in the tank and add fertilizer say the third day post waterchange?

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

We typically do the water change to remove excess ferts in addition to normal maintenance, I think waiting a day is pretty safe.

@BugzNBeanz 4 года назад

Bentley Pascoe okay cool! That’s what I was thinking but wanting to get a second opinion. Thank you!

@garyduncan6657 4 года назад

Hey Bentley how are you Sir? I am curious to know if you have any crypt florida sunset for sale. Thank you and you stay awesome as well.

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

I don't currently have any for sale as I'm still growing them out

@garyduncan6657 4 года назад

@@BentleyPascoe Ok thank you Sir. I will try to patiently wait for some lol

@psychedtraveler6611 2 года назад

When should I dose a new tank that's still cycling?

@BentleyPascoe 2 года назад

If you have a nutrient rich soil, wait until you're fully cycled. Otherwise I would start about 2-3 days in with light dosing.

@garyduncan6657 2 года назад

Did I hear you correctly that you should not add fertilizer on water change day? I have a 20 gallon high with an aquasky at 70% settings and low light plants. Easy green says 2 pumps once a week. Please tell me how you would spread this out please Sir. Thank you Sir.

@BentleyPascoe 2 года назад

Day after water change, one pump, three days later one more, three days later is water change, repeat.

@garyduncan6657 2 года назад

@@BentleyPascoe Thank you so much for your help Sir!

@ElderPinto254 2 года назад

its like a multi vitamine if you only need vit D than you maybe get to much of the other vitamines

@michaelloncaric7081 2 года назад

What about ph parameters especially for specific fish?

@BentleyPascoe 2 года назад

Most fish are flexible on pH, so it's not as strict. Usually though you see fish that like softer water in heavily planted tanks

@FrankyMitsu 3 года назад

Lets say I use this all in one fert, usually my tank consumes phosphates faster than nitrates, so with that said don't the all in one will double my nitrates? and maybe other nutrients that are not consume? I mean this all in one must be use with a really stable tank right?

@BentleyPascoe 3 года назад

Your plants don't need as much phosphate as they do nitrates. So even if they consume it faster it's normally because the amount present is minimal.

@RheaTempleton 2 года назад

I've read a lot of reviews on amazon saying they killed their fish so I've been scared to use them for that reason. Is there one that is guaranteed not to do that?

@BentleyPascoe 2 года назад

Easy green or thrive don't if you use them as instructed

@tobitaboyme1149 3 года назад

Excuse me, would it be okay to dose an all-in-one fertilizer together with macro and micro ferts?

@BentleyPascoe 3 года назад

My question here is why? Usually we do macro/micro dosing to be more calibrated and cheaper than all-in-one. All-in-one gives us convenience, so if we're doing macro/micro why not just increase where necessary to get it right?

@baum8981 3 года назад

My all in one fertilizer is called fish food :D And no i dont mind the hair algae They are plants too

@ross4869 3 года назад

Do you use liquid co2, like Seachem Excel? In low tech tanks?

@BentleyPascoe 3 года назад

I do not

@mamag8753 3 года назад

Great video

@michelleparsons9881 2 года назад

Just ordered Thrive and they're root tabs, Anyone else use those? and what is your experence with that line?

@BentleyPascoe 2 года назад

Fairly similar to Co-op, which is to say it's good.

@philo149 3 года назад

what happens if you over fertilize your tank please i cannot find a straight answer

@BentleyPascoe 3 года назад

Typically this spikes nitrates to potentially dangerous levels depending on how much you over fertilized vs the plants ability to uptake. Most commonly this results in algae out breaks, but can occasionally result in dead fish.

@kpNov23 4 года назад

CO2 is where it is at, real substrate and strong light.

@aquaticthumb5193 2 года назад

How deep for the eco-complete

@BentleyPascoe 2 года назад

Whatever makes it easiest to plant, I like 3-4" of substrate

@yarihercules 3 года назад

Dosing every day!? Are we talking about planted aquariums WITH fish in it???

@BentleyPascoe 3 года назад

Yes, but you do a lower dose each day. Spreading the dosage out over many days

@zimrianispresent8123 4 года назад

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

@Aquatic_Amigo 4 года назад

What does it mean when my Anubis’s have vanes shoeing

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

Depends on coloration, if you email me a photo I can try to help

@Aquatic_Amigo 4 года назад

Bentley Pascoe what’s your email

@andrescott2794 4 года назад

I youse NA

@andrescott2794 4 года назад

I youse NA that what I Ben youse for a while

@na1du 3 года назад

All - In one should be banned lol it is like treating an aquarium like a lawn! All you need is trace (Seachem) + Fe + K + CA:MG in 3:1 ratio + fish food and fish poop. No extra N or P = Win! Like 2HR AQUARIST All-in-one APT Zero!

@strikeout77777 4 года назад

49ers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

Have a good team, but we'll see if they can repeat that performance whenever the heck we get football again

@menergy3267 4 года назад

Is it Florin-Multi + Florin-Axis a good combination for planted aquarium? I'm a begginner, where i live Seachem is more expensive, so the other options that are cheaper are Florin and Easy Life.

@BentleyPascoe 4 года назад

Yes, Florin is a good product as an all in one and have some additional like axis helps