Egeria Densa

[jimbooo]

Hi

I bought a load of plants last weekend after my co2 had been running for a foughtnight. Swords, anubas, Java Fern & Moss plus Egeria Densa pic

all the plants are growing well apart from the Egeria. after 2 days the whole plant went brown/beige and the leaves disintegrated leaving 10 stalks sticking up out of the gravel.

Why???


i have 1X 30W Triton tube and 1X 30W Arcadia marine white tube both with reflectors. Tank is a Juwel Rio 180 (40UKG). i know this isnt great but surely should be enough for Egeria.

fish :
13 Cardinal Tetras
6 zebra danio
6 celebes rainbow
3 Boesmani Rainbow
1 Swordtail
1 Angel
1 Pleco
1 Bala Shark
1 Sterbae Cory
2 red calw crabs

 

[kenneth_kpe]

i had a similar thing happen to me with my rotala walaichii (dunno if the spelling is correct) and i attributed it to the temperature of my water, it was too high for the plant so it melted away my other plants were doing well also

 

[jimbooo]

never thought of that, My temp is 26C is that good or bad for plants?

 

[guppygirl]

Edgeria densa is a coldwater plant, and it will disinegrate as you mentioned in high temps. It's a great pond plant, but not much of a tropical fish tank plant.

 

[jimbooo]

that makes sence. thanks guppy girl, didn't like it much anyway

 

[guppygirl]

I don't like it either. That's ok. With so many other tropical plants, you aren't limited to struggle with one plant!! How are the other plants doing??

 

[jimbooo]

getting on pretty well, but still early days. i took this pic last night after removing 2 foot of airstones from the gravel. got a bit carried away when i originally set it up.

i want to get some ricca for a lawn effect but i think i need a lot more light to make it worthwhile.

wow just realised, the pic at the top of this thread was taken 4 days prior to the one below, the CO2 seems to be working then...