hello everyone welcome to hobbyist fishkeeper I am will and today's video is
going to be on fertilizing your plants in your planted tank aquariums now if
you watch any of my latest videos you'll know that I've just done two planted
tanks and if you've not seen those a link will be down below or there'll be a card
up here somewhere to click but today's video I'm going to put the two tanks
against each other little and large I don't really have much experience with
fertilizing other than root tubs to be honest now I'll put clay balls and these
in both the substrates for nutrients but I'm going to give this a go this is the
dennerle is that how you pronounce that dennerlel dosator and it comes with
this complete basic fertilizer v30 so I'm going to put this one into the
small planted aquarium and I do actually want this planted aquarium to get quite
not overgrown but quite substantial with plants because I am only going to put
two fish into this into this aquarium so I want it to be nice and and homely for
them and I'm going to see how those plants compare to these plants without
the fertilizer just for two weeks just to see if there is any any difference in
the growth rates on them and then if there is I'll buy another one and pop it
into this tank as well so the way this works from what I can gather i'm not
opened it yet so i will open it for you
so you've got the actual vial or the cap full instructions and then you've got
these now I have watched in a video of this on YouTube as well and from what I
can gather this works on water pressure and the permeability is that a word
permeability I think is I think that means when something when water can pass
through something the permeability of if I can pick it up this little disc of
paper so from what I can gather you pop the little disc of paper in the tube
like so and then water passes through this paper to create pressure which will
in turn push the fertilizer through this little nozzle and it will gradually drip
into your aquarium so obviously that's a disc in the water can pass through all
of that but then you get other little different sized discs so you control the
amount of water it's actually going through there so you can control the
pressure and the drip rate on the actual thing so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to put this together it is only a small tank so I'm going to throw the
smallest disc the coming sizes 1 to 6 and you get quite a lot 6 12 18 discs
different sizes but you get three of the actual permeable discs I'm hoping I'm
using the correct word permeable I think am I'm going to pop this together I'm
going to fill it up with some of the V 30 complete basic fertilizer what does
it say in this contains all vital nutrients and valuable trace elements
right so having add a quick read through the instructions I finally figured it
out so if you have bought one you need to make sure that the blue line is on
that side and the sticker that you're putting on which is the black ring which
has the circle missing to let water pass through that is on the
opposite side and then it says so instructed to put the blue line facing
forward and then screw the cap on like
so then it tells you to fill up the vial are all that wrong
tell you to fill this up then push this in so you filled up your little vial
with the fertilizer and then this little thing has a little rubber seal on it
which you pop in just like that and you push that straight up and I don't know
whether you can see that on camera what the pressure pushes the fertilizer up
like that and then obviously the water as it's passing through that will push
the fertilizer up using the water pressure so I'm just going to pop this
into the tank and I'm gonna see how it goes so there we go there's the dose
ater in the back corner there come around to the side for a better view it
does state that you need to have the little spout that the fertilizer comes
out above water level so you do need a bit of clearance this is just clearing
it with my glass lid on there well there we go little experiment you'll see how
well the plants do in this one with the fertilizer against this one I'm going to
give it two weeks I think I'll do a follow-up video once again thanks for
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