anubia is turning yellow.

you probably need to dose both if you're using sylica sand or gravel since neither contains iron. if you used flourite, eco-complete or an ada soil you shouldn't need to dose iron.

iron and potassium are required for healthy leaves. the exact amount depends on your setup; but the ei should cover a general ppm dose to help you get started.
 
i was lost in guide of problems with plants and symptoms. here is overall view at all of my plants, including anubias. i don't know the names for other 3 kinds that i have. i'll get a picture later tonight. leaves in one of my plants turn black even as soon as they become leaves, the growth of leaves is stunt in all of my plants, in another plant the leaves curl on the adges, and ne anubis leaves are turning yellow. so in overall there is something wrong with the whole picture. what is the best thing to do in this case? should i load my gravel now, like it should be done at the beginning? :help:
 
uhm, hmm that's a tough call. it never hurts having a proper substrate (setup); mixing in laterite would be beneficial overall but wouldn't address the micro/macros.

what exactly are you dosing? you mentioned fertalizers, iron and carbon (flourish excel). let's start there.

also, what are your water parameters? plants need nitrates like we need carbs.
 
Lets clear up a few points here. First.

Flourish Excell is bio-available carbon and nothing More. no iron no anything else.

Flourish Iron is iron

Flourish is a trace element mix which has some iron but typically not enough unless you have decent amounts of iron in your tap water.

Plants need three macro nutrients.

Nitrogen
Pottasium
Phosphate

Flourish makes all of these in ready to use products.
Pottassium defeciency will cause holes in the leaves, especially in Annubias, These holes will eventually turen yellow around the edges, but pottassium doesn't show up as yellow leaves.

Nitrogen defeciency will cause a lack of color, usually in older leaves.
Iron Defeciency will look similar to Nitrogen defeciency most of the time, But causes new leaves to grow in yellow.

Nitrate test kits are available and everyone should really own one in all honesty whether you have plants or not.

The three macro nutrients will often come in via fish food (Converted to fish waste) and possibly tap water so in a low tech low light slow Growth tank most folks don't have to dose. In higher light tanks dosing is usually required.

In addition to The Three macros, plants need a good trace mix (To priovide micro elements) a carbon source and light.

It really sounds like the issue is iron. try increasing your trace dosing a bit, and supplementing with iron as well. I'll hazard a guess that things will perk up.
Dave
 
o.k. i went to the store and got nourish potassium and nourish trace elements. i made a mistake about what i have and use. i use flourish and flourish excel. on the bottle of flourish iron they don't recomend to use both iron and flourish, because flourish has all the iron one needs. also they have symptoms of problems with plants and it looks as lack of trace elements was the problem. some of the nourish products my local fish store doesn't have. i remember what you are saying about nitrates. i haven't been testing my water lately, but usualy it would read no higher than .20. actualy, now the water is cleaner, so i probably don't even have .20. i'll test everything now.
 
some say that the light is my problem. if it is, what i should get exactly? but i don't want to use CO2?
 
just tested for all bad stuff. thanks for saying about nitrate, because it's very high, 40 and above. 0 nitrite, and .25 of ammonia. i'll need to check the water and do some water changes untill i get it down. how low should i get it down to, so some would be left for plants? so, it's not nitrate that's low.
 
10-30ppm, which is a pretty wide range. you'll have to figure out what works for you without leaving excess for algae.

as for light; you want a bulb that peaks around 420nm (actinic/blue) and 600nm (red) for photosynthesis, while giving off as much light as possible. cheap bulbs rarely do all 3 well. corallife and hagen off the top of my head have t5/t8/t10 bulbs that will work. i've been using a 48" hagen aqua-glo on my low tech tank with really good results. a good bulb/brand will have that information on the package or online.
 
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