Looking For Advice. Have A Look At My Pic Please

[pixelpefekt]

It's an Amazon Sword (bet you knew that!). The brown patch on the leave started really small at the tip and now it's spreading. What should I do?

Leave it and see what happens - thats what i was doing and it's getting worse.
Cut or remove the leaf - how should I go about that? Cut off the brown area or completely remove the leaf?

Thanks.

 

[Nick16]

do you dose co2 or ferts? remove the left, snap it away from the stem (at the bottom where all the leaves join) try to get a clean snap as low as possible, otherwise the plant will spend its energy trying to fight the brown rather than growing.

 

[pixelpefekt]

nope. no CO2 or ferts. very new to the plants. I think I'll try adding some ferts if you think that'll help.

I've got some Flourish so I will try adding that. It's a shrimp tank, will Flourish be okay?

 

[susankat]

Swords are heavy root feeders, the best thing to add is a fert tab near the roots.

 

[aaronnorth]

that looks like an itrogen defficiency so better to add the flourish rather than root tabs. It is shrimp safe.

 

[pixelpefekt]

thanks. I'll try adding some

 

[RadaR]

I noticed you live in Scotland. Soft water up there?
Could mean you have a calcium deficiency too.
Personally, I would go with root tabs. API are OK, Tropica would be best IMO.

 

[Nick16]

i used sera for my vals and they worked wonders.

 

[pixelpefekt]

thanks folks. I'll try to get my hands on some root tabs.