Do you use fertilizer on your plants?

[Lathrop]

What kind of fertilizer do use? I see vivaria has a new fertilizer with a trace amount of nitrogen. Has anyone tired it yet?

[ChromeLibrarian]

My plants get fertilized with whatever the Toads put out. They seem pretty healthy.

[Tindomul1of9]

Same here. Im scared of putting chemicals into my tanks with animals.

[littlefrog]

I'm not particularly scared to do it, I just don't see much point... My frogs put out more fertilizer than my plants can use, I suspect. In a terrarium, you could use any weakly diluted complete fertilizer. By that I mean a 'hydroponic' fertilizer that contains all macro and micro-nutrients. Dyna-gro, MSU magic, any number of a hundred others.

[Lathrop]

The reason why I asked is because my broms. have brown tips on them and the leaves are kind of curling. Is this a sign of nutrient deficiency?

[KEVIN S]

Originally Posted by Lathrop

The reason why I asked is because my broms. have brown tips on them and the leaves are kind of curling. Is this a sign of nutrient deficiency?

i definatly don't think its a nutrient deficiency. one of the beauties of having a viv is that it maintains itself, once established you should have a perfectly balanced eco system. you should never have to ad any chemicals or nutrient suppliments(this does not apply to your animals). the brown tips could be do to a number of things. if you have realy strong light they might be close., or they may not be getting enough light. they may need more misting or they might be getting misted too often, they could be in a spot thats too wet all together. diseases are pretty common in broms also, such as scales. there is a number of other things that could be going on but these are the most probable.

hope this helps

Kevin

[Lathrop]

Thanks for the reply Kevin. That definitely helped. I've just got finished setting up a planted aquarium so my brain is in the water chemistry of the planted aquarium. Water plants need more attention, as far as fertilizing, than vivarium plants need. I think I will increase the misting in my vivarium and then just sit back and enjoy it.

Thanks again!

Chris

[KEVIN S]

glad i could help.

what kind of aquatic plants do you keep? i'm getting in a fairly large shipment of hard to find aquatics in the next few days. let me know if there's anything in particular you are looking for, i can get just about anything.

Kevin

[Lathrop]

I have some rotola indica, micro sword grass, some amazons, anubias,Vallisneria spiralis, etc. Thanks for the offer. I'll keep that in mind.

Chris