How to feed your planted tank with liquid fertiliser! 

I’ve watched hundreds of videos let’s see how good he is

Your Aquascaper 1200 is a joy to watch, and thank you for this very informative video. The fertilizer I use is the one you use a lot in your videos; the liquid Tropica Specialized Nutrition. I use 1 mL every two days for my Dennerle 30 L aquascape, with two 50 % water changes weekly. This tank is stocked with amano shrimp and pygmy corydoras, and is full of several species of anubias, bucephalandra (green and purple), microsorum pteropus, java moss rotala H'ra, banana plants, marsilea hirsuta, limnobium laevigatum, hygrophila siamensis 53B, and salvinia auriculata. It's like watching a jungle. I also use the same liquid fertilizer for my five liter planted vase, where I feed about 0,2 mL daily. The plants in there are hemianthus micranthemum, some rotala H'ra, and salvinia auriculata. This one gets a daily water change because it is only a few days old. My big goldfish tank is full of anubias but there is no need for fertilizers in that tank, obviously. I have watched many of your videos and picked up your recommendations to use in my own aquascape, and I am happy to report that there has never been any issues at all in the tank. Not a single algae spot anywhere to be seen. Happy days :D

This scape looks like the head of a texas longhorn now that its trimmed back.

Thank you for this incredibly well-timed video! I just finished planting my new aquarium and sat down to look up info on dosing the Tropica Premium Nutrition I ordered with my plants! 🌱

Brilliant! Best overview of how to effectively use liquid fertiliser I’ve seen! Thanks, George.

Following philipes home routine. Potassium 3 times a week, iron biweekly and nitrogen+phosphorus biweekly

oh, your Scape looks so beautiful. Can't stop looking at it. Must be really enjoyable to sit in front of it and just relax

I’m going with with Dennis Wong’s APT COMPLETE it’s the most affordable compared to other AIOs where I live and has good nutrient levels.

Great video, I really like these deep dives. I recently switched from dry salts to an all-in-one liquid fertilizer for convenience and consistency, and my plants have never been healthier. For me, definitely worth the extra cost.

Love these educational videos George! What are your thoughts on seachem prime (and other conditioners) potentially rendering some components of the fertilizer inactive? some people suggest adding fertilizers 24 hours or so after prime.

Love all your great videos, I get to learn a lot with them. Albeit, you focus two different, common situations, either you have massively planted aquariums with a few fish or the opposite, not so many plants and loads of fish... My doubt is, in my case I have a massively planted aquarium with quite a lot of fish. My aquarium is 300 lts. (already deducting the gravel), and approximately 50cm depth of water column, I have a Twinstar 120B LED, CO2 injection and a Twinstar Yotta Plus sterilizer. The biggest fry is composed of cardinals, then have smaller groups of Rasboras (Mosquito, Chilli, Exclamation dot and Emerald dwarf), also Threadfin rainbow fish (my favourite), Spotted blue eyes, Oryzias woworae, Pencil fish (Nannostomus beckfordii), a few Otocinclus, Rosy loaches and striped and dark kuhli's. Also have a couple Bamboo shrimps, Amano shrimps, Red Cherry, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue Dream, Babaulti, Crystal Red, Tiger Blue and Blue Bolt shrimps. Also have snails, Neritina's, Taia naticoides, Clithon Corona and Planorbis. Plants I am more successful with are Cryptocoryne's and most Moss varieties like Christmas, Nano, Creeping, Flaming, etc. Not really successful with red plants, already tried Ludwigia's, Rotalas, and so on. Already increased light, tried a few brands of fertilizers, Tropica as well, both types, the green and yellow ones. Also tried the Tropica pills you place under the gravel. Is it feasible to inject liquid fertilizer in very small portions directly on more demanding plants? In the gravel underneath those plants I mean. I'd really appreciate some advice regarding this situation (lots of plants and fish). Thank you so much and keep making all these wonderful videos. ☺️☺️☺️

I dose Dennis Wong's 2hr Aquarist APT Complete fertilizer. I like that he provides lots of detailed information on the composition of the product. He has also provided a comprehensive explanation of the dosing methodology with research and a long guide on implementing it. For that reason I trust him and his product.

Very nice video, a very good help for any aquascaper. Thanks a lot George

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Thank you George for this educational video! Eye opener.

So by overdosing we do not risk algae outburst? I find this quite interesting. I always felt that if i added too much my algae grew more

This and previous video have been very informative george so thanks so much 👍 very helpful

2ml Tropica Specialised daily, 90cm fully planted tank.

Hi George. Thank you for the very informative videos. I’m a newbie here and wondering why you suggest doing a 50% water change each week. I’ve been told the fish in my tank don’t like lots of water changes but the plants will love it. Most info I’ve come across suggest no more than about 25% water change weekly.

These are the videos I’ve been waiting for. Thank you George!

Good bloke George.Very informative.New to hobby,great help.Thank you.

Excellent informative video George!

Hi George. Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

5ml of flolurish by sea chem, weekly on wednesdays strictly !

Great video, very interesting. I might look into auto dose as I often forget the ferts. I’m not brave enough to use Co2 yet. And your Krib looks amazing, he’s stunning 👍🏻😁💕

Great video. There are a million and one ways to achieve success with plants. Hit that sweet spot balance and you're good to go.

Great video. Until now, I used separate micro and macro from Green Aqua, but I got Tropica all in one fertilizer for a new aquarium. We are interested in how you dose the liquid fertilizer, once a week when changing 50% of the water, the entire prescribed dose, or do you spread the prescribed dose over several days a week ? Tropica says to dose 6ml per 50 liters of water all at once when changing the water and it lasts for a whole week. What do you recommend?

Great video! I love the "back to basics" style videos. While the aquascaping vids show a broader scope of the process of aquascaping and maintenance, these videos give a lot of tips and pointers to the everyday life of the aquarium enthusiast. Keep them coming!

Great video, I'm also going to fertilize with an automatic doser, I bought the same d-d. I wonder, you dose 20 ml in a 300L tank, shouldn't you dose 30 ml according to the high energy system? I have a ADA 90P aquarium and I have a high energy system and heavily planted tank, I only have had it going for 3 weeks and used the ada brighty k and minerals for those weeks. And now I want to start dosing with tropica specialised nutrition, how much would you recommend me dosing? You are a great inspiration. Really helpful videos, thank you! :)

This is what i have been after, thanks

Hey George thank you for the video! Tropicas recommendation is 5ml for 50l per week of the specialised. You dosing 5ml per day. Its 7 times higher. Why is tropicas recomendation so low? Please help

Very informative video 👍🏻

George. U missed quite important factor. 90% of aquarist use tap water. Some have very hard water which often contain one of the Macro in crazy ammounts. Example - my water has ton of Calcium - 140ppm, little magnesium 6ppm and two tons of phosphates 4ppm. No Nitrogen, no potassium, no iron. Using Tap water and all in one fertiliser in that case will cause never ending algae problems. Water chcange - phosphates up. Fertilising - phosphates up. Nitogen Potassium Magnesium always too low. Plants don't like it because of wrong proportions. Algae loves it. So? Before anyone decide what and how they going to feed their plants, first! Get to know Ur water You use for water changes.

I use Dennis Wong APT complete, best all in one fertiliser on the market atm...check it out. I love tropica plants but their fertiliser got too much no3 and not enough po4 and K, and that can lead to algae problem during time.

I use Tropica Plant Growth Premium Fertiliser 1 squeez/day in a 60l aquarium.

this is one of those videos you can revisit periodically due to so much good information. thanks again.

Very very well explained! Great video and I can safely say I’ve learnt a lot and I definitely don’t dose enough. My ferts say 20Ml once a week. So like you mentioned they are almost essentially fasting or hungry for the rest of the week. Going to drop it to around 2Ml a day and see how it goes

am new to aquarium plants. I am concerned about causing algae with aquarium soil. Do I need it if I am using an all in one liquid fertilizer? how can you tell if you are overdosing liquid fertilizer? in your video you say that you need to add nitrates and phosphate to a planted tank. I believe the Easygreen liquid I use does not have those; should I add them seperately? thank you very much

Hey George, thanks for these. Learned a lot. Just one question you mentioned to add fertz daily, you mean 6 days a week? And 7th day you do a water change?

I've just found your video, I was wondering what is the dose for medium/low planted tanks? thank you

What’s the link to you saying no to liquid CO2?

George, is there any test available to test the amount of different components? Thanks

Seachem advance, 5 ml per day. In a ten gallon. One day out of the week I’ll do seachem comprehensive. Use advance more because it doesn’t have nitrogen.

you been hitting the gym there George

I use Plantedbox all-in-one once a week, 1ml per 10liters

Great gas pedal analogy George. Looking forward to your book. Thanks.

Hi George..its a great informative video.. But i have a question if i use the specialised nutrition will it be beneficial for both green and red plants??i mean will it give the good red colour for red plats as well as green for the green plants?? (I have good lighting and CO2 injection in my tank.) Thank you very much....love your videos.❤🤍🙂

Can we dose phosphate during lights off? If yes does the plant absorb phosphate during lights off?

I have 50ppm+ of nitrate in my tap water that’s why years ago I decided to go dry salts route (plus it was popular at the time) and omit nitrogen. Didn’t think of changing up until I seen this video. My plants seem to be doing well so not sure if I should change?

I use tap water from Los Angeles. It’s hard and has a ton of nutrients in it already. Do I still need to dose ferts? My LFS told me to add iron once a week and keep up with water changes and I’d be good..

Fantastic video George. It was you that first inspired me into starting planted tanks when you wrote articles for the Practical Fish keeping magazine which was and is still a wonderful resource for anybody coming into the hobby. Many thanks 🙏👍

Por favor, hagan todo lo posible para que pongan los subtítulos también en Español. Somos muchos hispano parlantes que no podemos entender sus explicaciones. Muchas gracias!!!!

I’m having ammonia spikes so I’ve put in a load of live plants aswell as some water changes... I’m now thinking of feeding the plants, if I start using liquid fertiliser will it not raise the ammonia and nitrites again that will be damaging to my fish ? Or should I wait till my tank is cycled and not a new setup before I start feeding the plants ? Thanks for the video I’ve subbed !

Is there any truth in what people say about dechlorinators stopping fertiliser from working? Dechlorinators state that they remove metals from the water and I've read in online groups that that includes all of the metals present in the fertiliser, effectively rendering them useless for whatever period of time the dechlorinator remains active in the water (rumoured to be up to 48 hours). What are your thoughts on this, and is there any truth to it?

Hey George I use the Aqua Rebell Fertilisers No3, Po4, K, and the Micro Basic Iron....all of them individually as my aquascape needs

Every since I ran into this channel and George.. Everytime I talk about my tank I talk with an Accent like George 😂😂😂😂😂 cheerio👍

In high light (twinstar 600S) do you suggest to start by following the suggested dosing on the bottle for tropica specialized or should I start dosing more than the bottle suggests right off the bat? I have a 75 litre tank dosing 2ml of tropica daily but only just switched this week from using ada ferts

This video/guide is very great! I've an aquarium with good ligthing, co2 injection and seachem Flourish liquid fertilizer. I've got recently a problem with the WINDELOV AKA LACY JAVA FERN that gets like burn(brown and black) in some spots. Can you tell me maybe whats wrong?

2ml per day using profito easy life in a 120 litre tank several different plant species varied results not sure if to add more daily algae isn’t to much of a problem

I have a high energy 26 gal tank with high light and co2. It’s heavily planted with stems and various mosses ferns and Buce. I dose 4ml of Tropica Premium every day and an additional 2ml of Specialized every other day. I’ve noticed my plants are doing much better and growing well and showing their best colors. I am fairly well stocked with fish so I do a 25% water change mid week and a 75% deep clean on Sundays. I also use some floating plants

Just going to start a nano tank when do I start dosing the tank. Do I do it for day 1

I was doing PPS-Pro/Dry ferts but I'm moving to APT-Complete for my new tank. I noticed the plants were unhappy when I get to about half of the solution. There *are* things you can do to stabilize the solution, but I don't want to fuss with it.

Really good video. 👍

Russian subtitred make plz. Very interested👍

Great video George. I was searching this topic earlier today! Looking forward to.your video about liquid co2

I'm dosing TNC complete 0,35ml per day for six days (no dosing the water change day). Nano 45**25*25cm, 20L of water column, low light, no co2. Thank you George for your contents. I owe you a lot for your teachings.

Thanks for the video George! Very helpful!

Thrive All In One 3 times a week but half of the recommended dose. 50% water change once a week. Dirt substrate caped with eco-complete. And for my baldness, two drops in my hot cocoa 😂

Hi George! Could you do a video on carpeting..? I’ve attempted to create a nice carpet for my shrimps in my low tech Fluval flex, but it ended up not growing and destroyed by bba.. Are carpets feasible without CO2 injection?

8:17 fish in top left corner… amazing for only two fish lol

beautiful tank! what is this lighting system?

Super good video there and im using liquid fertilizer as well and sometimes no fertilizers at all, my plants being growing for about 6 years :D "D free plants every day

Goerge is it okay to dose liquid ferts to a fairly young tank using ADA Aquasoil ??? I’m unsure if I should or not ???

do you advise still dosing liquid ferts when your fighting algae

Excellent video George. I have two low tech, 60l tanks and the nitrates sit around 20ppm. I never know whether to use ferts or not. This has really helped me make a decision.

Best Aquarium video on RU-vid right now 👌🏿

Any recommendations on what liquid fert is safe for shrimp?

Outstanding! Much appreciated! High quality video, valuable, helpful, straight forward information. I'm taking my first attempt to go with a planted tank. I feel confident that I can succeed in creating an awesome system, (Like yours in the video). Thanks George. I now search for all your videos and enjoy them all. Keep it coming Man.

I would love to see a video about your liquid fertilizer pump system! It would help a lot during long days at work, vacation etc! At this moment, I have no clue what I am going to do with my high tech planted tank while being away for a few days or even a week... Last time I traveled it caused lots of algae due to electrical problems so no I'm afraid to leave 😅 Love the video by the way! Super interesting and very educational! Thank you for sharing! 🥰

Damn, you got some pretty huge arms George

Excellent.Thanks

Great video again George. Would love one on the inside of the oase filters. Do you use as standard or add your own levels of filtration 👍🏼👌🏼

Great Video George! I’m newly back into the hobby, and set up a co2 injection tank. Started to notice plants not look too good, and algae starting. After watching this vid I realised I was under dosing the tank. After dosing everyday started to notice instant results, everything looking better!!! Thanks, all the way from New Zealand.

Lovely video. I’m bit confused which AIO fertiliser to use? Evolution aqua or Tropica specialised nutrition? I have a 60 litre planted tanks with around 100 shrimps.

How about ADA ferts? 5ml for N K Fe Mineral ? thats a lot ....I have a 60h adatank, but just my hairgrass and rotara always troubled by green hair algae, but never others.

I also use an all-in-one fertilizer, Colombo Flora Grow Pro (weekly dosage). For me, this fert works in both low- and high-tech tanks. That is a huge advantage and I save a lot of money by that because I have a 951-liter capacity fishroom filled with tanks ranging from nano to 270 liter monster.

Excellent topic and video. I would really enjoy hearing more about liquid fertilizers in conjunction with planted substrates. I'm in the U.S. with a dirted 36 and 55 gallon under moderate/high light with no co2.

Fantastic. I’ve just realised that my one pump per week of tropica premium in 25l with 40-50% weekly water changes probably isn’t enough. I use aqua soil, root tabs but I guess having column feeder plants like hornwort and some others aren’t getting enough nutrients. Some are melting which I’m not sure is because they’re new or underfed. I will soon find out. I’m now going to do 2pumps per week and see how I go. I may increase it. Algae is a small problem but it’s mainly in the tank closest to the window. So that makes sense. Fingers crossed the increase in nutrition does the trick! Fabulous video. Thanks so much 😄😄

I’m new and my aqua scapes look similar new growth but similar

Hi George, is it advisable not to put a heater in planted tank? In such a case how do fishes survive in cold weather???

Hi George, thanks for the great video. With regards to the water change. Being that you are adding the nutrients back into the water through dosing, are you doing your water changes with 100% RO water?

Thanks George really informative! I use aquascaper complete the results are good but I worry that it harms my nerite snails would that be true?

Hello. Thank you for this great video. I'm going to try this system you talk about. I have a newly planted aquarium with Dr Tropica substrate. It is a very planted high tech. I wanted to ask you if you recommend that I start fertilizing now with the Tropica specialized substrate. In what quantity? Or better not to start yet? Thank you so much

Excellent video. I’m having reasonable success in a low-tech heavily planted Oase 85 StyleLine using the German Dennerle all in one system, (V30, S7 & E15) including their Dosator , which delivers a study daily drip of the all in one fertiliser V30 via an osmotic membrane. FWIW I used only Tropica plants and followed there App’s instructions, which recommend 30% of water changes and cautious fertilisation in the first 90 days. (BTW Thanks for the disclaimer about your involvement with one of the AIO companies, as in some videos it can seem that you’re promoting this brand and approach, ahead of others. But maybe that’s my perception and not others.) Further videos on your low-tech set ups would be much appreciated.

Hi george I have a 6 foot aquarium with java ferns , cryptocorynes with some red ones , vallisneria and some anubias with 20 semi adult discus ..which tropica nutrition to go?.. confusing. .pls help out george.

didn't mention about seachem flourish liquid fertilizer? any thoughts? thanks..

Great video and actually helped confirm my own thoughts on daily small doses rather than large ones. Currently I'm doing 5 squirts 2 times a week. I was just wondering if the tank gets to lean on ferts towards the end of my routine. I think I will start small doses daily after my next water change.

Hi there! This might be a bit specific questions to my situation but i will post it anyway. It might help someone if answer came along. I started to add Tropica specialised nutrition to my heavy planted tank. It's 125 liter big. Seller at aqua shop recommended me to buy and add more potassium over what Tropica specialized nutrition provode. Is this necessary and what can I gain with for example adding additional 5ml easy-lofe potassium per week? Thanks.

Hi George i have anubias in my tank for the first time and they are melting away, it doesn’t look like a fungus eating away at it, is it possible that my dosing of liquid co2, seachem flourish, seachem flourish premium isn’t sufficient for them? I had them planted with the thick stem above the soil and they where doing great, but i read if they are on rocks or wood crevices they grow better? Is it the change over thats killing them or is my dosing incorrect, i dose daily btw. Thanks so much for your videos its super informative