Plant Tank Crash

midiamin

MidiAmin
Jan 29, 2005
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I just had a 55 gallon tank plant crash. It was loaded with Anubius and Java Fern Windaluv s amazon swords. All the Anubius and Java Fern went belly up but the swords are as gorgeous as usual. Anyone have any suggestions. No I'm not posting tank chemistry except that they were all good. I hae the history of this tank which I will post at the end of this discussion if necessary. This is a good subject for discussion since you rarely hear about it. Any suggestions?
 
add any salt or salts lately? also what is the lighting and do you use co2?
 
The swords are root feeders and will create their own little mulm dirt like patch for nutients.The anubius and java draw the nutrients outta the water column.The anubius root or rhizome should look bright lime green in colour if healthy.The anubius rhizone will need to hit a saturation point before establishing itself which may require more nutients be feed at the beginning.
 
this tank received trace elements and iron on regular basis plus small amount of Ca. The Java fern was tied to rock and wood. Although the plants that suffered are rhizome based, roots seemed to be in healthy state.
 
What do you mean by crash? Is it just that the java fern and anubias died? Or was there any other effects? Just curious.

Actually there were other species of plants available that did or did not make it. I am pissed that I lost the most expensive and hardiest. Crypts made it and Limnophila aquatica, anubius and java did not. Believe me, when the majority of your plants have a mass die off all at once, it's a crash. A failure of something in the system. Just like on the computer (computer crash). Tank was heavily planted. Will post a 'before' pic this evening.

What's peculiar is the most hardy of all the plants died!
 
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