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Plant Disease or Fungus?
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Do you know which nutrient appears deficient? Im dosing EI for macros, per your directions for micros, 30ca, 12mg, yugang reactor with 1.5 drop.
Any idea why its grouped? As it touches plants, they seem to melt. Isolated plants remain unaffected. Plants that get most of their nutrients from the soil like crypts are also suddenly melting when touched by 'infected' plants.
My guess would be macros but from what you say it shouldnt be. The java in back of the first pic doesnt have those symptoms but definitely looks starving
Pics dont really show what you mean by grouped but I get what youre saying
Idk man, maybe somebody else will have an idea
Pics dont really show what you mean by grouped but I get what youre saying
Idk man, maybe somebody else will have an idea
FrankZ
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I haven’t seen anything like this before.
Now this is a different type of tank (low tech no CO2, EI once a week, and poop machine breeding fish) Some times my planted cichlid tank (electric blue acaras and severums) gets funky and plants start to randomly turn to mush or drop all the leaves.
What seems to turn it around is daily huge water changes for 3-4 days some times a week. I do two back to back 50% changes before starting to do the full tank drain to acclimate the tank sort of slowly to the big water changes. I drain down until the fish all but fall over and refill. I try to vacuum the sand and the sponge filters as deep as I can with every big water change. Redose the macros and GH with every water change for the full tank volume. I can’t ever pinpoint what causes the melt because sometimes the substrate and sponges are funky other times it’s not bad.
The only constant is the multiple huge water changes and cleaning turns things around. I am not saying this will fix it just that it helps me get out situations where my plants are going south and I can’t explain why. It might help and definitely won’t hurt.
Now this is a different type of tank (low tech no CO2, EI once a week, and poop machine breeding fish) Some times my planted cichlid tank (electric blue acaras and severums) gets funky and plants start to randomly turn to mush or drop all the leaves.
What seems to turn it around is daily huge water changes for 3-4 days some times a week. I do two back to back 50% changes before starting to do the full tank drain to acclimate the tank sort of slowly to the big water changes. I drain down until the fish all but fall over and refill. I try to vacuum the sand and the sponge filters as deep as I can with every big water change. Redose the macros and GH with every water change for the full tank volume. I can’t ever pinpoint what causes the melt because sometimes the substrate and sponges are funky other times it’s not bad.
The only constant is the multiple huge water changes and cleaning turns things around. I am not saying this will fix it just that it helps me get out situations where my plants are going south and I can’t explain why. It might help and definitely won’t hurt.
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