The other day I moved all my fish to my hospital tank and began remodeling of my 45g nature aquarium. When I took my plants out I put just the roots in water and after about 30min I realized that the leaves were wilting and drying up. In hind sight that is obviously the dumbest thing I could do. Well after that I through them all in a 5 gal bucket full of tank water and fully submerged them. Over the next few days I saw the leaves on my amazon swords brown, become transparent and form some small holes. luckily not every leaf on every plant did this but lets just say off 5 plants I cut 9 leaves off today. There still are some not so perfect ones. Is there any chance the leaves can recover or should I trim all the even slightly bad leaves off? I even lost about 14 stems of red cabomba completely. They did not recover at all, I probably could have saved a few but what a mess and a lot of work. So I tossed all of it. This is a pic of after the remodeling but before my shipment of plants comes in later today.
