My Plant Needs Your Help

[Dude]

my hygrophilia polysperma leaves are comeing out transparant

is this a sign of too much light

lack of nutrients

or lack of co2

this plant has also been growing really really slow...


plz help me figure out whats wrong

my tank :10 g
parameters are normal
1.5 watts per gall and indirect sunlight
laterite as gravel and liquid fert
no co2

 

[Themuleous]

can you post a pic?

 

[Dude]

can you post a pic?

i tryed its not working

the leaves look brused and thier brand new

 

[Dude]

plz help anyone

 

[Themuleous]

Sounds like a nutrient deficiency, but a picture would help. IS it affecting the new leaves or old leaves? What liquid fert are you using?

 

[jimbooo]

definatly nutrient deficiency of some sorts. my first guess would be iron but if the laterite is less than a year old then your not lacking iron. co2 deficiency wont cause that alone, just generally slower growth.

what liquid fert are you using? what i really want to know is whats in it exactly. if it's a broad range micronutrient one then i'm stumped, some liquid ferts miss out a few nutrients so cant really advise until we know what you are putting in.

 

[Dude]

its there is plenty on iron (i have iron in my gravel)

and also the laterite is brand new

my liquid fert was a gift from the pet store

i dont know whats in it cuz he put some into a plane small bottle out of the big bottle
its a yellow liquid
maybe i need to buy a new one i dono

are you sure that its not the light? cuz only some stems have that see though symptom

the old leaves are fine its just the new ones

i have no clue whats the matter everything else is growing great

 

[Themuleous]

Its unlikely to be the light as low light generally just means the plants don't grow very fast. That fert you've got sounds like just a bog standard iron fert, if you could find something like seachem flourish it would add other trace elements like boron and magnesium to the water which the plants also need. Iron is vital but they also need other things too.

Sam

 

[Dude]

cool thanks alot for the help

ill get some tomorrow

when will i be seeing results ?

will the bad leaves repair themselfs? or should i cut them

 

[Themuleous]

May take several week, especially in a low light tank. The very old leaves probably wont recover but the newer ones might. See what happens and remove any that start to rot.

Sam

 

[Dude]

hey this is what i have done..

im gonna start to do co2 injections... from yeast


i cut all the leaves that were transparent and added more gravel and one root tab .


and i also bought this liquid fert.... its called JBL ferropol liquid fertilizer

it says this..
contains iron potassium sulphur no nitrates and phosphate

then it has a little pic that has the names of the trace elements are

K, Fe Mo Co B Mn would this be good? to heal and flurish my plants?