jsoong
Aquarium Advice Addict
Just wondering, does Anubias suffer from crypt melt?
I moved my one year old A. nana couple weeks ago. I originally planted this on top of my river rocks, with rhizome showing. Over a few weeks, it had nicely rooted to the rocks. Well, the plant was getting too big for the space, so I moved it. All I did was picked up the handful of rocks the plant was rooted in, and removed the whole plant without disturbing the roots (much).
There was algae on the leaves, so during the move, I scrubbed the algae off .... lightly, with a scrubber.
I put the plant in the new spot & all appears well. Over the last week or so, the plant started to have yellow leaves, holes appears, and all but 2 leaves fell off. I started out with a nice plant that was getting too big to a sorry looking thing with 2 puny leaves (and no new ones coming.)
My question is - did I kill it? Or is this like crypt melt & the plant will bounce back? The rhyzome is still plump & greem and about 1/4" x 2".
For info, this is a low light (1.5 wpg), low tech tank at 72F. No change in routine. Dosing KNO3 to 10, occasional trace mix but mostly fertilized by the goldies. Fairly lightly planted (few dozen stems hornwort, a couple dozen baby java ferns (1-2"), in process of adding more plants.)
I moved my one year old A. nana couple weeks ago. I originally planted this on top of my river rocks, with rhizome showing. Over a few weeks, it had nicely rooted to the rocks. Well, the plant was getting too big for the space, so I moved it. All I did was picked up the handful of rocks the plant was rooted in, and removed the whole plant without disturbing the roots (much).
There was algae on the leaves, so during the move, I scrubbed the algae off .... lightly, with a scrubber.
I put the plant in the new spot & all appears well. Over the last week or so, the plant started to have yellow leaves, holes appears, and all but 2 leaves fell off. I started out with a nice plant that was getting too big to a sorry looking thing with 2 puny leaves (and no new ones coming.)
My question is - did I kill it? Or is this like crypt melt & the plant will bounce back? The rhyzome is still plump & greem and about 1/4" x 2".
For info, this is a low light (1.5 wpg), low tech tank at 72F. No change in routine. Dosing KNO3 to 10, occasional trace mix but mostly fertilized by the goldies. Fairly lightly planted (few dozen stems hornwort, a couple dozen baby java ferns (1-2"), in process of adding more plants.)