Beginers Question About Vallis

[jrussuk]

Hi ive planted some vallis in my tank and its starting to look a little unwell!!!! the leaves seem to be dying off and breaking up. Is it going to perk up or is it dieing. I have got the tank ights on for bout 10 hours a day its works out to be 1.5 watts per galon and all my other plants seem ok oh my tank is still fishless cycling. I used to have a planted tank bout 20 years ago and i cant remember if my vallis was like that.
many thanks

 

[2pods]

Hi ive planted some vallis in my tank and its starting to look a little unwell!!!! the leaves seem to be dying off and breaking up. Is it going to perk up or is it dieing. I have got the tank ights on for bout 10 hours a day its works out to be 1.5 watts per galon and all my other plants seem ok oh my tank is still fishless cycling. I used to have a planted tank bout 20 years ago and i cant remember if my vallis was like that.
many thanks

Have you added any fertiliser, plant food, co2, liquid carbon ?
FWIW, sometimes I've had vallis shedding leaves, then picking up.

peter

 

[Dave Spencer]

Vallis doesn`t like soft, acidic water. I had mine in this type of water in an EI tank with 3.4WPG, but still considered it to be relatively unsuccessful, although I am still finding runners from time to time.

What are your water parameters?

Dave.

 

[jrussuk]

ive added some plant food and my water i think is fairly hard not tested ph as its cycling

 

[TammyLiz]

What size is the tank and how many watts? WPG works out fine if you're talking a mid-sized tank but if it is something smaller, like 10 or 20 gallons, you'd need more than 1.5 for vallis. For instance a single florescent strip over a 10 gallon is not enough for vallis, even though that figures out to 1.5 WPG.

 

[Dave1]

thats what happened with mine, so i decided to take it out, and i didnt realize it was spreading runners under my substrate... i started with 1 plant, it *died* and now i have 5-6 little live ones, the same thing happened with my anubias, it died, and grew plantlets off it and now i have a jungle... it seems like all my plants *died* and grew back twice as fast and twice as better.

 

[Dave Spencer]

I wouldn`t say that Vallis requires high light levels. Mine was in 3.4WPG and fertilised, but it just didn`t like my water.

jrussuk, you may find some early dying off, followed by a quick recovery and good growth.

Dave.