Is This Normal For New Plants

[markandhisfish]

my tank is 4x2x2 low tech, lighting just over 1wpg clay cat litter substrate capped with sand . planted with amazon sword , echinodorius ozelot , giant valis , hygrophilia polysperma and a couple of crypts. photoperiod is 8 hours tank is dosed with flourish excel and tropica plant nutrition , i also have absolute root monster root tabs for most plants

the thing is that some of the leaves are starting to look quite ugly and seem to be dying. is it a case of losing emersed leaves for submerged ones or am i doing something wrong?

 

[BackToTheFishes]

I think some just do that when first planted then regrow,I've been picking leaves off the surface since I planted on wednesday,but seeing new growth now thank gawd

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Mark, I am not green fingered in the slightest, my new planted tank is the most I've had to do with gardening in my 36 year lifetime! However, I have read at the Tropica website that "Ozelot" is a really colourful plant, producing leaves of all sorts of rusty colours when happy

I'm now lighting my Rio 240 for ~14 hours a day since introding plants on Wednesday, albeit that over half of them went back to the shop yesterday and were replaced with true aquatics! However, I was encouraged that over the space of 3 days, some of the non-aquatic cuttings had developed some roots. Presumeably, as I only installed the CO2 system yesterday, this was down to the 5 litre tub of Deponitmix (~1cm depth, fine for all but tricky plant species, when supplemented by additional fertilizers) under the Congo sand.

However, a great deal of my tank floor is covered by plants now, a lot of which being fast growers, that are so far not giving algae a look-in...

 

[SuperColey1]

Its pretty similar to a garden. You buy plants. put them in and the upset of new surroundings means they can look worse while they get used to it.

In an aquarium there are some notorious plants like Crypts which suffer a melt when they go in and then they come back. nothing to worry about.

Some plants melt, some don't. Some people have more severe melt than others. Some have no melt at all. Still nothing to worry about.

With a planted aquarium you have to give time for changes to take effect whether it be a change to the setup (ferts, CO2, lighting, flow etc.) or whether it be the initial planting. Any decisions made before time is given for a change to run its course, normally results in a larger problem.

So in essence, give it 2 weeks - 1 month and then assess things.

AC

 

[markandhisfish]

ok thanks for the replies it has only been a few days , so i guess i will continue as i am and see how it gos .

 

[markandhisfish]

the crypts are melting bigtime , the giant valis a little but nothing too major. have noticed some new growth coming thru on the amazon sword tho .