Shana Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 (edited) Bought several plants a couple months ago. Went through a cycling bloom, then a diatrom bloom and were good. But in the last 2 weeks they have started turning yellow, and translucent and leaves dying off. I supplement 1-2x each week with Aq Co-op all in one fertilizer (which is what I believe spiked the diatroms), and just not sure what is causing this. Any insight and help would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to loose any of my plants. Edited October 31, 2021 by Shana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmiller2001 Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Is that Java Fern? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shana Posted November 1, 2021 Author Share Posted November 1, 2021 Amazon Sword I believe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmiller2001 Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 How many gallo is the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shana Posted November 1, 2021 Author Share Posted November 1, 2021 35 gallons, 8 young fish (about 13” right now). Doing 30% water changes weekly with 1/4 of the water R.O. to help bring the PH and hardiness lower. Have extremely hardy water. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmiller2001 Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 (edited) You are under dosing Easy Green. Edited November 1, 2021 by Mmiller2001 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 It sorta looks like a Nitrogen deficiency, but it could also be the plant adjusting to your tank. What are your Nitrate levels? The inner leaves look good, if it was in my tank I’d remove the dying leaves so it puts more energy into the new ones. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 it looks like that sword is converting to submerged growth. the wider outer leaves are melting off, the newer leaves in the center are skinny and long. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shana Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 Thank you everyone! Hopefully it’s just the conversion. For having the plant for over a month I would have expected it to happen sooner and I have been following the dosing with the 3-4 pumps each week for my 35 gallon (aside from doubling it each week). I bought some substrate fertilizer pills, and some new plants for my other tank and will test out which works better. Saturdays are my hobby day, so I will take your advice and trim the dying leaves to repurpose energy into the new grow and fertilize twice a week. I haven’t broken out the full water test kit, but my quick test kit is showing 25 mg/L. I also changed the light setting just in case the white light power was too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom240 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 (edited) On 10/31/2021 at 11:23 PM, lefty o said: it looks like that sword is converting to submerged growth. the wider outer leaves are melting off, the newer leaves in the center are skinny and long. Ehhhhhh I disagree. Those look like already submerged growth to me, compared to my sword plant. I'd say that it's adjusting to his water parameters with the normal expected melt. The leaf structure of my (admittedly ragged due to excessive plantlets) sword looks pretty identical. Shana, I'd say with a few root tabs and continuing to dose ferts, the plant should bounce back. It looks like a possible iron or phospate deficiency. Edited November 4, 2021 by Phantom240 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogpulchra Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Amazon swords are heavy root feeders. You might want to try putting a root tab in the gravel next to it. I have had good luck with API and Aquarium Co-op root tabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shana Posted November 6, 2021 Author Share Posted November 6, 2021 Phantom240, Are those Swords climbing up the vertical part of your tank?!?! The plants look incredible. Thank you Ogpulcha and Phantom, I bought some root tabs and am getting them in the tank today during the water change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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