Amazon Sword, Help Please!

Hello Everyone,
I'm new to the Aquarium hobby and this site as well. Hoping you friendly folks can help me out with a question I have:

We bought my son a 10G tank for his bday (we've since realized this is a bit small and will he upgrading to a 30G in the near future) and we wanted to have some live plants in it. We bought an Amazon Sword and Bacopa. The Bacopa is growing very fast but the Sword seems stunted or like it may have a nutrient deficiency. It has a few brown spots and some string like things hanging off the leaves. We have just recently (5 days ago) added root tabs and we were using nutrifin plant grow. The tank has a glass top with full spectrum LED lights on top, running roughy 10hrs a day. I've heard Sword are supposed to be vibrant green and shoot new leaves, our has been in the tank 5 weeks, and is looking worse than when we bought it and no new shoots. Is there something we can do to help the plant? Are we doing something wrong? I've attached a couple pics.

Any help would be super appreciated,

Thanks

 

Welcome! It's great that you have live plants in your first tank. You're already ahead of where I started.

That's a java fern, not an Amazon sword. Java ferns get most of their nutrients from the water column, don't like having their ribosome buried, and are slow growers that do fine in low light.

 

That's a java fern, not an Amazon sword. Java ferns get most of their nutrients from the water column, don't like having their ribosome buried, and are slow growers that do fine in low light.

Thanks for the info! Was told some thing totally different from the local petstore and I guess thats why you go to local aquarium shops instead.

 

At least they knew it goes in water, haha. Seriously though, you can get knowledgeable people and ones full of hot air at chains and lfs alike. It just depends on who is working that day. If you have fish stocking or ID questions, I highly recommend you post a question here before you buy, no matter how confident the sales person is or which store you're in. I got sold the wrong kind of gourami by my lfs and they swore they were super peaceful and would stay small..... That didn't turn out to be true and trying to figure out what is actually gotten sold is what led me to finally making an account here

Java ferns are a great beginner plant but do grow slow, which also means they are hard to kill so long as you don't bury them too deep. Try using string or fishing line to tie it to a rock or piece of decor.

 

At least they knew it goes in water, haha. Seriously though, you can get knowledgeable people and ones full of hot air at chains and lfs alike. It just depends on who is working that day. If you have fish stocking or ID questions, I highly recommend you post a question here before you buy, no matter how confident the sales person is or which store you're in. I got sold the wrong kind of gourami by my lfs and they swore they were super peaceful and would stay small..... That didn't turn out to be true and trying to figure out what is actually gotten sold is what led me to finally making an account here

Java ferns are a great beginner plant but do grow slow, which also means they are hard to kill so long as you don't bury them too deep. Try using string or fishing line to tie it to a rock or piece of decor.

Really appreciate the help and I will definitely give tying it down to a piece of decor a try. No more shopping at the chains for me! Haha.

 

Welcome to Fishlore BeardedGenz! Sounds like you got your answer! This is a great place to get information, and people are just awesome here!

This specific forum you posted in is more for kinda "welcome" and get to know you. I would recommend checking out these forums: Aquarium Plants Forum (fishlore.com) , and there's a lot of help specific to plants where people will be able to help you on your specific issue there. FYI - Some of our "experts" in certain areas here, tend to watch what is in their "expert" area more than they see the other sections.. I may not be an expert, but I do the same on some of the things I do have a bit more knowledge on as well.

 

As the fellow mentioned above you can't bury the rhizome - in your picture they are burried so be sure to raise them a bit else they will rot once they begin to rot the plant will die - though sometime you can cut off the rotting portion...

 

Welcome to Fishlore BeardedGenz! Sounds like you got your answer! This is a great place to get information, and people are just awesome here!

This specific forum you posted in is more for kinda "welcome" and get to know you. I would recommend checking out these forums: Aquarium Plants Forum (fishlore.com) , and there's a lot of help specific to plants where people will be able to help you on your specific issue there. FYI - Some of our "experts" in certain areas here, tend to watch what is in their "expert" area more than they see the other sections.. I may not be an expert, but I do the same on some of the things I do have a bit more knowledge on as well.

Hi,

Noted and thank you for the info. I've already posted another question, hopefully to the right forum.

Thanks,

As the fellow mentioned above you can't bury the rhizome - in your picture they are burried so be sure to raise them a bit else they will rot once they begin to rot the plant will die - though sometime you can cut off the rotting portion...

Thank you,

I actually just un-buried the plants and tied them to the side of the decor with a bit of fishing line.