Root Tablets

Nikhilsk99 · Post by **Nikhilsk99** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:34 pm

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?

Nikhil

halak · Post by **halak** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:35 pm

I use Jobe's Spikes from Home Depot.

GOT MTS? · Post by **GOT MTS?** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:50 pm

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.

SCMurphy · Post by **SCMurphy** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 7:34 pm

Jobs spikes under root feeders, I don't worry as much about getting ferts in the substrate under stem plants.

Nikhilsk99 · Post by **Nikhilsk99** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:20 pm

Thanks Guys.
I will go for Jobe's Spikes or osmocote plus.

sns26 · Post by **sns26** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 11:00 am

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.

GOT MTS? · Post by **GOT MTS?** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:36 am

Sam-

I've pulled out crypts months after adding plant spikes and found them with roots all grown through them.

Becca · Post by **Becca** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:10 am

They are not harmful to fish or inverts?

Post by **krisw** » Wed Mar 18, 2015 6:19 am

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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