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Hello guys I’m wondering how can I know that I’m not giving too little or too much micros or accumulating them to abnormal levels, I have the hanna digital test for fe however someone was saying that it doesn’t detect all forms of it. So what can I do about it? Because as far as I can remember someone was saying plants line reneickii mini is sensitive to high fe levels
 
Trust the dosing total and water change volume. .45Fe as proxy is well known to be a good spot to be. If growing AR, and it does that twist thing, you can lower from there.
Sorry but I’m not sure if I understood this right.
Does this mean that I should dose 0.45 weekly (which after many water changes will become 0.90 assuming plants would consume none) or 0.25 so the theoretical max , again assuming plants would consume none would be 0.5?
 
As a weekly dose total. We don't think of Micros like we do macros and accumulation totals.
I’m not sure if my reneickii has the curled leaves,. Maybe I’ll post a pic tomorrow.
I remember someone was saying it would get attacked by algae if the fe levels were too high. And I had algae issues on it.
However when I was dosing apt E 3ml/day I was giving exactly 0.45 weekly I think
 
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