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swords and emersed leaves.....
I understand that many aquatic plants are grown out of water, and these
leaves will die, being replaced with new. I recently bought 3 large amazon swords, and the leaves are yellowing. At what point should I worry? What can I do to ensure their survival? 75 US gallon 20 gallon sump, standard overflow 40x4 flourescent, timed, 11 or so hours per day heavy fish load (barbs, tetras, loaches) moderately planted, java fern, java moss,anubias, anacharis, amazon swords. Using seachem florish, seachem trace according to package directions. ph 7.1-7.2 temp 78f nitrite0 ammonia 0 nitrate 80ppm+ Yeah, I did each test as I wrote this. The nitrate results surprised, shocked, and horrified me. Water change scheduled. Like 10 minutes from now.g tia Billy |
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swords and emersed leaves.....
Looks like your sword is flowering. Great fun for you. Watch for the stalk
end getting too close to the light - especially if you use CFs or Medal Halide (e.g. HOT) lights. I ultimately opened up the glass cover, jury rigges one of the strip lights to still be on top of that. The bloom stalk on mine branched at the water line. Then some of the branches branched also. I got about 4 nice plants before I gave away the mother plant. I found that pushing the stem with plant back to the water level seemed to enhance the root growth although those growing in the air also put out roots. My sword took over more than 1/2 my 55 gal and had huge leaves - 18 inches long and 4 inches wide - when it bloomed. How large is yours? Bob "WD" wrote in message news:SFg2a.78633$vm2.45115@rwcrnsc54... "Bob Alston" wrote in message ... My swords like iron at their roots. I use Root Tabs plus Iron, available at many LFS. I notice a big improvement from doing just this, along with 3 watts per gallon light. One sword plant bloomed recently in my 55 gallon tank! Agree with prior post, if new leaves are coming in and look right, then don't worry. If new leaves and old ones look the same (shape) but the older ones are yellow, suggest the iron. Anyway, you can't hurt by adding the iron root tabs. Bob Put in root tabs when I planted them. All my plants are doing well, (excepting an unidentified reddish plant with narrow leaves, it was given to me, and has never thrived.) 1 of the 3 swords has shot up a long stem, and it seems to be producing small leaves at the nodes, which appear healthy. Thanks for the input. |
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swords and emersed leaves.....
I had the same thing start to happen to my red rubin swords. LeighMo
suggested, like you said, that the leaves that come with the plant have been grown out of the water and to cut the yellow and dying ones off. I then had different shaped new leaves pop out of the plant. The new submerged leaves will indeed be a different shape and more fragile. It is also a good idea to use root tabs or jobe's fern spikes "WD" wrote in message news:7M_1a.68512$vm2.40781@rwcrnsc54... I understand that many aquatic plants are grown out of water, and these leaves will die, being replaced with new. I recently bought 3 large amazon swords, and the leaves are yellowing. At what point should I worry? What can I do to ensure their survival? 75 US gallon 20 gallon sump, standard overflow 40x4 flourescent, timed, 11 or so hours per day heavy fish load (barbs, tetras, loaches) moderately planted, java fern, java moss,anubias, anacharis, amazon swords. Using seachem florish, seachem trace according to package directions. ph 7.1-7.2 temp 78f nitrite0 ammonia 0 nitrate 80ppm+ Yeah, I did each test as I wrote this. The nitrate results surprised, shocked, and horrified me. Water change scheduled. Like 10 minutes from now.g tia Billy |
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