deadhead
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Can anyone tell me what's wrong with my Anubius? It's been in my tank for a few months and always looked great until about a week ago. I'm not sure what it needs. All my other plants including other Anubius look healthy.
All aquatic plants need the macronutrient Nitrogen to thrive as well. Id say that is your issue if you stopped dosing it. Also cutting back on nitrogen wont help the bioload. Is the tank stocked properly and are you preforming enough weekly water changes? Theres an underlying issue to your heavy bioloaddeadhead said:I cut back on phosphorus because the phosphate levels are above what's desired. There's a real heavy fish load in the tank so I cut back on nitrogen. The main reason is because I'm trying to find a balance and rid myself of an algae problem. I'd say I started that 2 weeks ago just before this problem started. The tank is well dosed with seachem potassium, iron and flourish. As far as new leaves, no there haven't been any at all. I should also add this plant has really long, hard roots and the rhizome is well above the soil line.
Could this really be from lighting that's too intense?
50% every week. Nitrate levels are pretty low. I was simply saying my algae problem could be from too much ferts so I thought it might be safe to cut back nitrogen due to my heavy fish load. Phosphate levels are actually high. This tank has more bio filtration than it needs. It's not over populated but there really isn't room for anymore.Blueberrybetta said:All aquatic plants need the macronutrient Nitrogen to thrive as well. Id say that is your issue if you stopped dosing it. Also cutting back on nitrogen wont help the bioload. Is the tank stocked properly and are you preforming enough weekly water changes? Theres an underlying issue to your heavy bioload
Too much Phosphate is mainly the real reason why algae grows so quick too. For the anubias though, they cannot be under direct lighting. I had my anubias under lighting at first and all the tips yellowed and grew brown algae, then I moved the anubias in complete shade and its fully thriving and sprouts a new leaf every week.deadhead said:50% every week. Nitrate levels are pretty low. I was simply saying my algae problem could be from too much ferts so I thought it might be safe to cut back nitrogen due to my heavy fish load. Phosphate levels are actually high. This tank has more bio filtration than it needs. It's not over populated but there really isn't room for anymore.
I do dose iron because I have a lot of red plants. They were only looking okay for awhile so I increased the amount of iron. Now they're a brilliant red and there's several different ones in the tank. I just started growing frogbit but there's far from enough to shade them. I'll start by lowering the intensity. All my plants were doing well under less intense light. Like I said, I've been tinkering with things trying to put a leash on this algae problem. That's been going really well for the past month but now this.Blueberrybetta said:Too much Phosphate is mainly the real reason why algae grows so quick too. For the anubias though, they cannot be under direct lighting. I had my anubias under lighting at first and all the tips yellowed and grew brown algae, then I moved the anubias in complete shade and its fully thriving and sprouts a new leaf every week.
Do you dose any extra iron perhaps? Anubis and Swords thrive on Iron. I also suggest the Thrive All-in-one fertilzers so they can get all the micro and macronutrients they really need.