My Amazon Sword Needs Help

[ICE CUBE]

i have 2 amazon swords.i got a common pleco.and i think it started eating them..i think that my be the cause.

now they are yellowey colour and the leafs are reali small and damaged...

can anybody give me some info please
thanks

 

[frozenbarb]

i have 2 amazon swords.i got a common pleco.and i think it started eating them..i think that my be the cause.

now they are yellowey colour and the leafs are reali small and damaged...

can anybody give me some info please
thanks

PIctures? plecos will eat board leaf plants. Your amazon may be going through submerged phrase

 

[cheesy feet]

WPG=___??
Do you use ferts?
Stay up and see if you can see him eating them.

 

[ICE CUBE]

PIctures? plecos will eat board leaf plants. Your amazon may be going through submerged phrase
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what do you mean submerged phase??
to answer ur Qs.cheesyfeet no i dnt use any ferts..should i???

 

[cheesy feet]

Yeh, I've found out that basically if you don't use ferts with amazon swords they will stop growing, deteriate and die.

 

[ShoC]

Yeh, I've found out that basically if you don't use ferts with amazon swords they will stop growing, deteriate and die.

more to the point,
you want to use Root tabs that will give its roots some much needed nutrients.
they are very heavy root feeders. (sorry cant provide a link for one never used root tabs)

Submerged phase is where it has been grown with its leafs out of the water,
and the leafs underwater are totally different so they die off and submerged leafs develop.
(don't know if this is possible with amazon swords)

hope that helps.

I would go to AquaEssentials.co.uk and buy the Tropica Root Tabs

From thread below with Supercoley saying that.

 

[ICE CUBE]

thanks for your help everybody
il see what i can do with them any way
thanks