Thrive Aquarium Liquid Plant Fertilizer – All in One Planted Tank Plant Food - Two(2) 500ml Bottles

Great product my fish tank is already cycled and having to much plants inside a fish tank will cause them to consume to much nitrate, which is a good thing. I had 5ppm of nitrate but after a week later my plants consumed all the nitrate leaving me with 0ppm of nitrate. This led to my plants to Wilt with lack of nitrate and nutrient but using this product my plants look more alive then ever. CAUTION when using this product makes sure to use half the dose. This will increase your nitrate a lot so make sure to test for nitrate each day for a week and if you have plants even better (they will consume the nitrate little by little)

I started using this after some of my plants started melting back pretty hard during the first couple weeks of setup. I wasn’t expecting much right away but within a week or so I started seeing new growth on the Monte Carlo and even the crypts perked up. It’s easy to dose and doesn’t mess with water clarity or anything like that. I’m not running a super high-tech tank, just moderate light and CO2, and this seems to be doing the job without overdoing it. The bottle lasts a while too. Not much else to say—it works and my plants look way better now than they did before I added it. This bottle also has some nutrients that something like api leaf zone (which is what I used before) lacked. I think that's what made my plants green again. May your plants flourish!

My plants absolutely love this stuff and it is so easy for me to use. I admit I am pretty forgetful and lazy when it comes to fertilizing, so the Thrive line of liquid fertilizers are right up my alley. I have several low tech, heavily planted tanks and I definitely noticed a difference in my overall plant health within a week of using this stuff. This is like plant crack ;P I have new growth everywhere and my floating plants are going bananas, which is good news for my trio of goldfish. The 3 little piggies love to nom on the trimmings.For those with invertebrates: My amanos, nerites, and bamboo shrimp do just fine dosing this, the original version of Thrive. I do my 25-30% water changes about every other week. I do dose more than the amount recommended for low tech setups, but I also spread the dosage out over 4 days instead of dosing all at once. My tanks are heavily planted riparium style with both emergent and submerged growth, quick growing vals, swords, crypts, and out of control floaters. They are understocked critter wise and I have a hard time keeping even my nitrates above zero. Your mileage may vary, of course.If your tank is lightly planted with mostly slow growers like anubias, mosses, and java fern, my schedule is not going to work for you. Everybody’s tanks are different, so you need to use your best judgement and figure out what works best in your tank. I can only share what works for me in my situation. :) In my opinion though, as long as you have an etablished, adequate sized, and healthy growing plant mass, and keep up on your water changes, I don’t forsee a problem with the low dose of copper in this fertilizer harming invertebrates.NilocG Aquatics also makes a shrimp specific fertilizer, Thrive S, for those that are still worried. I have used that one in the past for the greater part of a year and it works pretty darned well. I would think it might work especially well for overstocked tanks where one might have a problem with nitrates building up (it adds a lower level of N with each dose).

Happy with the product. Great work on the marketing too! The product looks great.I did a bad job of staying on a schedule for ferts, and the cost and complexity of individually dosing my ferts... Just became complex leaving me to not want to do it. This is way simpler.For those concerned with nitrates, I think they may be new to the idea of planted tanks. Under no circumstances should you have minimal/no nitrates in your planted tank (remember, this isn't a fish tank).Believe it or not, one of the biggest issues in planted tanks is not having enough macro nutrients such as nitrate. I had to dose nitrogen in my tanks or I would literally not have enough causing a deficiency and a mess of other problems.This is not really a product suitable for the tank that has a couple crypts/stems or something and is primarily a fish tank... or worse, overstocked.However, for those of you where the plants are heavy (with or without co2), and then fish are added conservatively, this product will be great for you.

So this stuff has worked great and I definitely recommend. Plants really took off once I started using, and I wasn’t even using as often as bottle stated. Used off and on with zero problems for couple months.That said, as a novice to planted aquariums, I made a huge mistake. I had forgotten to add the fertilizer for awhile and put a pump in my betta aquarium before leaving town for two days. I had added a pleco a week before and wow does he poop! Also had an almond leaf that needed removed, but figured could deal with detritus and water change when I got back. My water parameters had been fine the week before.Boy was I wrong.My betta had dropsy when I returned and when I tested nitrates, they were at toxic levels. I am treating him, but do not expect him to survive.So please people, be careful with this, and any other fertilizer. After this tragic lesson, I plan on testing my nitrates every time I add fertilizer, and recommend everyone else to do the same. It only takes couple minutes and is totally worth the effort.

Definitely brought my plants to life!

This fertilizer has done amazing things for our live freshwater aquarium. We use it 3 times a week and our plants have really flourished. We have an Aquatic fern, grass, moss balls and two other plants I forgot the names of. We have guppies, tetras, a male betta, ghost shrimp and 3 nerite snails in our tank. All of these little guys are unaffected from the fertilizer. Thrive is so easy to use in the pump bottle dispenser. It has the thickness of a watered down aloe gel and dissipates in the water quickly. I definately recommend this product.If my review helped you in any way please press the helpful button.