Planted Aquarium Fertilizer Resources

[Art]

Let's start a listing of the key resources on the Internet for fertilizing our aquariums. Please post more and I will update this first post.

Planted Aquarium Nutrient Dosing Calculator

• Rotala Butterfly

 

[BigWave]

Dry salts for mixing our own fertilizers
Each of these has their own merits for what salts they sell and pricing. Be careful of cheap pricing but expensive shipping.
Nilocg Aquatics - Also home of Thrive All in One Fertilizer: FERTILIZER
Green Leaf Aquariums: Fertilizer for Aquarium Plants - Green Leaf Aquariums | GLA
AquariumFertilizer - This site is still up and running from years ago: Aquarium Fertilizer – Planted Aquarium Fertilizer | Napa, CA

 

[BigWave]

This site is the defacto go to for creating an All in One fertilizer solution. Check out all of his other links on the site. Lots of great information here.

James' Planted Tank - All In One Solution

 

[BigWave]

Chucks Planted Aquarium Calculator. Note this hasnt been updated in a very long time. It is a WinXP calculator for the PC.

Chuck's Planted Aquarium Calculator for Windows

Articles, Pictures, and Descriptions of Tropical freshwater aquarium plants and fish. Specializing in Plants and Rainbowfish. In-depth articles regarding the maintenance of a planted freshwater aquarium. res,

web.archive.org

 

[Immortal1]

Well, BigWave seemed to cover the macros pretty well.
I have been using BurrAqua for micros since he stared selling them.

As for KH - I have been using K2CO3 for a few years now. Usually just look for something on Amazon for that one

 

[Art]

I have been using BurrAqua for micros since he stared selling them.

I second this as one of his customers. He also supports this site so he's top of my list.

 

[Hanuman]

I think the IFC Aquarium Fertilizer Calculator has its place here. It's M. Excel based. It does all the basics but goes a few extra miles for the geeks and those who like to tinker around. Not necessarily for the faint of hearts but not that difficult to master either.

Credits go to Zeus from UKAPS and yours truly.

 

[Sb1415]

Rotala butterfly - how would you enter aquarium co-op easy green ? I don’t see it as an entry. Is it not something that is popular ?

 

[Pepere]

Rotala butterfly - how would you enter aquarium co-op easy green ? I don’t see it as an entry. Is it not something that is popular ?

Easy Green is quite popular with beginners and people who do not have large tanks and do big water changes and run CO2.

You get a lot of convenience for a small tank without CO2 higher ferts lights water changes. Not exactly the clientele who are going to be using rotallabutterfly.

There is under $2.00 of dry salts and micros in that bottle of Easy Green. If you have a 20-30 gallon tank without easy plants, no CO2, moderate light and a bottle lasts you 8 months to a year, the convenience is worth it. If you want to push growth with 50% weekly water changes it behooves you to learn dry salts fertilizing.

 

[Sb1415]

Easy Green is quite popular with beginners and people who do not have large tanks and do big water changes and run CO2.

You get a lot of convenience for a small tank without CO2 higher ferts lights water changes. Not exactly the clientele who are going to be using rotallabutterfly.

There is under $2.00 of dry salts and micros in that bottle of Easy Green. If you have a 20-30 gallon tank without easy plants, no CO2, moderate light and a bottle lasts you 8 months to a year, the convenience is worth it. If you want to push growth with 50% weekly water changes it behooves you to learn dry salts fertilizing.

Thank you. I ended up buying a bunch of stuff as i started the hobby, 1 was the easy green and the rest was the line up Seachem products. I will probably end up completing all these before switching to dry salts fertlizing. Do you have a good resource for this ?

 

[Koan]

Yes!

Our own Joe Harvey's BurrAqua has them

BurrAqua Post in thread '**Plants In Stock @ BurrAqua.com** - Complete Plant List - Updated In Real Time!'

Apr 30, 2025

Can you put information about your dry salts here too? I’m out of MgSO4, partway through everything else, so trying to figure out the best way to switch over.

Thanks for asking about this. Ive been waiting to list the ferts until retail packaging is ready to roll, that should be done in a couple of weeks. I dont have individual salts, like the MgSO4 you mentioned

What I have is the popular pre-mixed packs of both micros and macros to make your own solution. You just add the entire pack to your dosing container and mix using distilled or RO water

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The micros has Fe DTPA+ Fe...

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[Aquajack]

Hi all,

It appears for the last day or two the Rotala Butterfly calcs are down on their website.
This seems to be most peoples go to so when this resource is not available what have you been using?

I have a copy of the excel IFC fert calc from UKAPS (V1.3) which appears pretty comprehensive.
It may look more daunting at first glance but is easy to use, is pretty customizable and seems a pretty good stand in.

Has anyone else used this calc or any other?

 

[Art]

@Hanuman is one of the authors and always happy to help with setup and use.