Gideyon Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 I'm new to plants and I'm terrible at it. Is this anubias dying? What concerns me are the spots on the leaves, and that one leaf in the middle that looks like it's crumpling and turning yellow. Low light. No ferts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rube_Goldfish Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 (edited) To my eyes, that looks like a good, healthy anubias. The lighter, wavy leaf is the newest leaf, I'm guessing? Most of my anubiases (maybe all of them?) have lighter colored, differently shaped leaves at first, then as the leaf grows and ages, it darkens and changes shape to match the others. Is it new into that tank or has it been there a while? Anubias are pretty tough, just slow. If the leaves aren't covered in algae, and if the rhizome doesn't feel squishy (and is above the substrate), then I'd just wait it out a while, keeping an eye on the new growth. EDIT: I just snapped this photo of one of my anubias (Anubias nana, I think): (Please ignore all the little floating bits; this tank just got fed baby brine shrimp.) That curled, lighter leaf in the middle is the newest one, still growing. That's sort of what I mean. Incidentally, the one I'm worried about is the one to the right and behind of it, covered in hair and green spot algae, but I'm just doing manual removal for the time being. Edited June 5 by Rube_Goldfish Added photo 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyM Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 The lighter green, small crumpled leaf seems like new growth to me. Some of my anubias' shoot up new growth like this too. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 looks fine to mee. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideyon Posted June 5 Author Share Posted June 5 Ok. That's a relief. The invincible rotala died in here. Micro sword is struggling. So I went with the anubias. It's been a month 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitecloud09 Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 On 6/5/2024 at 4:38 PM, Gideyon said: Ok. That's a relief. The invincible rotala died in here. Micro sword is struggling. So I went with the anubias. It's been a month Yes, no worries, mine used to be absolutely covered in algae. And had leafs like that. But now it is thriving. For micro sword root tabs will help more than you might think, but most importantly, you need ACs all in one fertilizer to help your micro sword thrive, it makes a big difference. Plants need those ferts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gideyon Posted June 8 Author Share Posted June 8 Those brown spots are algae? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitecloud09 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 On 6/7/2024 at 10:11 PM, Gideyon said: Those brown spots are algae? Yes most likely diatom algae, all aquariums have it trust me, even non-planted tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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