Somethings on my plants!

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Well first my plants all kind of started looking brown and I thought they were dying but today I rubbed one of the leaves and something dissolved in the water sorta like powdery, it's brown and dissolves in the water when I rubbed it off the leaf. Anyone know what it is?

 

[mfdrookie516]

diatoms .

 

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Only on the plants? The rest of the tank has nothing. I had diatoms in my other tank and they never appeared on the plants, only the glass. It might be diatoms

 

[aqua_chem]

Need pics. Sounds like diatoms though.

 

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Okay well I cleaned it off of one of my plants but my swords still have it. Let me get the camera out

 

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[mfdrookie516]

Well, that's either diatoms, or what I've been calling diatoms for the last year... I've had it on my plants too. I've found that higher flow seems to prevent it from sitting on leaves of things like swords and anubias, and I never really had a problem on any other plants. It'll go away in time IME

 

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Well it doesn't affect my swords they're still green and growing but I was concerned because I have two other plants whose names I don't know, one looks like a crypt of some kind. But these have been really affected by it, they actually started yellowing and I took off a bunch of dead stems and leaves today, they were doing good before this