Leaves Falling Apart

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MegaZerino

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I got a new tank and planted it on saturday, i already had the plants in my old tank and they were doing really well, but now theyre in the new tank the leaves seem to be just falling apart really quickly. I trimmed the roots but not too much and they are planted deep into the substrate, i am not running co2. the only plants that seem to be doing ok are the vallis and the hygrophila guanensis. All the water parameters are fine, apart from the nitrate which sky rocketed to 160ppm when i changed the tanks, but im bringing it down with water changes, its now at roughly 100ppm. The substrate is fluval stratum and i does the tank with JBL liquid fertiliser once a week. Please help
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Some low tech plants do melt when moved or introduced to a new tank so get rid of damaged/dying leaves and they'll soon sprout new ones.
 
Some low tech plants do melt when moved or introduced to a new tank so get rid of damaged/dying leaves and they'll soon sprout new ones.

ok, thanks, i knew swords did that because that happened last time, but it didnt to my crypts or anubis, i was just a tad worried because one of my fish has swimbladder at the moment as well. thanks :) and should i remove ALL the leaves that are damaged or just the really bad ones, because that would be a large amount of them and i dont want to stop the plant from photosynthesising enough
 
They'll be fine, remove all damaged ones as they wont repair themselves, Anubias don't generally melt, but saying that my Anubias Petite did when I moved it so maybe.
 
What Steveo says :good:

Transparent/holes in leaves points to a lack of CO2 in the case of "New tank" melting we can put it down to the CO2 in your tank being at a different level to the one they came out of.
 

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