Does Anubias rot effect different plants?

[Chiasmodon]

I introduced this new Anubias to my tank. If it happens to get infected with Anubias rot, will it affect plants from other general like Crypts, Java Ferns, and Bucephalandras?

 

[86 ssinit]

No it’s just an anubias thing. Some times now the rot is because they’ve grown the plant emersed so it looks really nice than you put it in your tank and the whole plant rots.

I’m almost wondering if this is how anubias rot started.

 

[Chiasmodon]

No it’s just an anubias thing. Some times now the rot is because they’ve grown the plant emersed so it looks really nice than you put it in your tank and the whole plant rots.

I’m almost wondering if this is how anubias rot started.

There's this article stating that a bacterium caused "Soft rot" in Anubias nana. The bacteria is called Dickeya dadantii

 

[fishywoo]

Sorry to bump in here, is rot when it turns brown/black? And different from melting?

Once upon a time I had an Anubias that one side turned brown/black and began spreading up the rhizome. I cut that part off and the rest did well, so if it gets the rot as I know it just remove the infected part and it should be fine.

I'm just wondering the difference between rot and melt though.

 

[86 ssinit]

Like you I had rot a few years back. Thing with rot is you don’t get it quick it can spread to all anubias. The infected area does stink. Melt is what happens to emerged grown ones. Like any other plant it just melts and there’s no saving it.

 

[Fishfur]

Sorry to bump in here, is rot when it turns brown/black? And different from melting?

Once upon a time I had an Anubias that one side turned brown/black and began spreading up the rhizome. I cut that part off and the rest did well, so if it gets the rot as I know it just remove the infected part and it should be fine.

I'm just wondering the difference between rot and melt though.

Melt is a form of rotting but it’s not the same rot that affects anubias. Melt is typically a reaction to a sudden change in growing conditions especially from emerged to submersed but the roots usually survive and grow back new leaves.

I’ve had some anubias that have had a rotten spot on a rhizome but I have no way to know if the cause of that is a specific organism or not. Usually if enough rhizome is cut away above the rotten area the rest of it can be saved but it totally depends on how far the rot has spread along the rhizome.

Dickeya dadantii is apparently the cause of a specific bacterial rot that affects anubias and can ruin a tankful of them if it gets into their water.

Depending on whose advice you read, the best thing to do is discard the entire plant if this rot is suspected OR severely prune back the affected tissue in hope of finding intact tissue that hasn’t yet been affected and then quarantine any apparently healthy tissue until you are very sure it is healthy and not going to infect any anubias you have already.

I’m not at all sure there isn’t more than one cause for a rhizome to rot because I’ve never quarantined plants that had some of it after cutting away the rot and so far, so good.

I’m very grateful for this thread because until I read it I wasn’t aware of the organism Dickeya dadantii but now that I am, I will QT any new anubias I get that’s not tissue cultured.