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Okay, got the photo. I've put it up he

http://members.aol.com/leighmo/alan.jpg

I hope you don't mind, but I think letting everyone see it will help with the
diagnosis.

I don't mind at all, I'm grateful for the help.

That is most definitely *not* a deficiency. Something is eating your plants.
My guess would be the apple snail, though I can't say for sure.

Have you visited www.applesnail.net? Look at their identification page, and
see if you can tell which species of snail you have. If it's not Pomacea
bridgesii, you have a plant-eater. If it is P. bridgesii, then maybe the plant
leaves are dying for some reason, and the snail knows it, even if you don't.

Looked at the site (fantastic) and am sure that I have P. bridgesii. I
might try taking it out and seeing if that helps.

Don't know if it's relevant, but I looked again yesterday, and the
echinodorus rubin is getting more holes/eaten leaves, whereas the Amazon
sword and the other two echinodorus are pretty much OK. The Amazon has
one or two holes in the leaves, but not big and not many compared to the
size of the plant. The ech. rubin was doing very well until just
recently, but now it's looking a bit sorry.

Thanx for the help.

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Alan Silver
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