Browning of leaves...

el wadd

el wadd

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I have several groups of swords and anubias Afzeli in my tank. The leaves are slowly turning brown on a few of them. I have them in a planted discus tank, temp 82 now 88F. I have 1.7wpg. T-5's and fertilize carefully with flourish and flourish excel. When it comes to the ferts, I probably under dose them just out of paranoia.

Is it the ferts? The lights? The temperature?
 
Guess: combo of ferts, temp.

Swords tend to be root feeders, so liq. injection into substrate around roots or plant tabs usually help.
 
the temp was not at 88 when this started. It was 78~82. It's just been in the last couple days that I made the temperature adjustment.

I'll order some ferti-sticks from amazon moosey today. Does anyone know anything about these? They say that they are the slowest releasing plant sticks on the market. Each stick supposedly lasts 6mo to a year.
 
iron supplements seem to work very well to take care of the brown/yellow swords. i use a liquid supplement, but it works well since my sword plant is actually jamed between two rocks in a bare-bottomed tank, not planted.
 
Should I reposition the swords so they are above water? Or maybe just push some substrate away from the whatchamacallit?

Iron deficency eh....I guess I didn't remember my last plant tank being so labor intensive. Starting to recall it now tho'

How about flourish iron? Would I be better off with sticks, seeing as how my plants are anchored in the substrate?
 
I use excel, iron and potassium (all from flourish) and my plants grow like crazy and no brown spots - even my large swords
 
Today, the guy @ the LFS told me to lay off ferts for at least a month to let my plants get "acclimated" to my tank. I gotta admit confusion.:confused:
 
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