Root Tablets

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Nikhilsk99
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Root Tablets

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I see guys selling Osmocote PLUS root tabs, are they good for high tech planted tank which has plants like

1. Alternanthera reineckii
2. Baby Tears
3. Staurogyne repens
3. Red Ludwigia

What root tables do you guys use and where do you buy them from?

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I use Jobe's Spikes from Home Depot.
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I use Jobe's, miracle grow spikes and osmocote sraight in the substrate. Have never found any of them to do any harm. Just don't over load them.
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Jobs spikes under root feeders, I don't worry as much about getting ferts in the substrate under stem plants.
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Thanks Guys.
I will go for Jobe's Spikes or osmocote plus.
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GOT MTS? wrote:I use Jobe's, miracle grow spikes and osmocote sraight in the substrate. Have never found any of them to do any harm. Just don't over load them.
Wow - you mean you just push them into the substrate a little bit and let them dissolve over time? I'd have guessed they dissolve way too fast when fully immersed in water.
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Sam-

I've pulled out crypts months after adding plant spikes and found them with roots all grown through them.
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They are not harmful to fish or inverts?
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Not in my experience, Becca. I'm sure like anything, you could overdo it, but I haven't found that point yet.
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