Reply With Quotemaybe you let it out of the water for too long?
I noticed that my anubias nana is shriveled up and appears to be suffering from some sort of deficiency. The leaves colour on the left appear different too.
I am using ada soil and has been cycling the tank for two weeks now. The tank is placed near a curtained window. Water temperature hovers at 29 to 30 degrees. I dose seachem flourish excel once every few days and dose fertiliser once a week.
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maybe you let it out of the water for too long?
It has already been submerged in water for the past two weeks when I began the water cycling. But it was out of the water when being sold (I bought it at C328).Originally Posted by Vernonplim
Looks like those are the old emersed leaves slowly wilting away and the plant is transiting to submersed condition... just trim off the leaves with discoloration and holes (leaves with holes and damage will not recover anyways), that will allow the plant to re-direct resources to grow fresh new healthy leaves that are adapted to your tank conditions.
Anubias are quite hardy because they store alot of reserves in their rhizomes, so they are able to easily recover from aggressive trimming of their old and damaged leaves. They are slow growers and hence transition slowly too, so you'll just have to give them some extra time to adapt.
I just returned to C328 and the staff at polyart said it is due to excessively high temperature. Could it be a possibility too?
In the meanwhile I will trim off some of the leaves on the anubias nana.
Those look like emersed leaves. Like Urban Aquaria mentioned, let them convert to submersed leaves. It will take some time.
Your java moss have greenish tips right? Then conditions in your tank are decent.
Well, temperature might be a factor for more sensitive plants, but anubias are some of the most hardy and adaptable plants around, so they usually wouldn't face as much issues with our local higher temperature environments.
I've kept anubias plants both submersed and emersed in outdoor conditions which hit >33°C temperatures and they still grew well without issues. I've even trimmed off all the leaves of some anubias (only left the bare rhizome), and the plants recover and bounce back with new green healthy leaves within a week, so no need to worry about trimming off their old leaves.
I guess the C328 uncles were probably hoping you'd be tempted to buy a chiller from them.
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