not quite right - advise please

[jimbooo]

Hi Everyone,

this may seem like a tiny little thing that most people would ignore but it's bugging me.

i have recently (6 weeks ago) planted an Echinodorus "Red Flame" as the centre piece of my 40G. it's flourishing and producing deep red and olive green leaves and is a stunning improvement on the Wysteria i had in there before.

However the bigger leaves are rather droopy/buckled. if you look at the pic below the leaves (circled) are not flat but wavey.

is this normal?

i am guessing it may be too much light (in that case tough!!) but no other ideas as to the cause.

can anyone help at all?

Edit: sorry for the HUGE pic, not sure what happened there.

heres the tropica profile

 

[jimbooo]

 

[BigC]

Hi jimbooo,
I have E.Ozelot as a centrepiece in my planted aquaria and it's leaves are slightly ruffled but not as much as yours. The Tropica picture seems to suggest that the leaves are ruffled to a certain degree. If the plant is healthy and growing though then why worry. It will tell you when there is something drastically wrong ( no not verbally) but usually by discolouration of the leaves.
Nice plant though

 

[jimbooo]

thanks bigc, it's only that they keep turning over so all i can see is the back of the leaves. bit of a pain thats all.

 

[George Farmer]

Looks like iron deficiency.

Only kidding mate

I think it's normal to have some ruffles.

 

[betta_breeder]

Yeah i think its quite normal!

 

[jimbooo]

Looks like iron deficiency.

Only kidding mate

I think it's normal to have some ruffles.

i think i have that base covered oh well never mind it's not a major problem so i'll leave it be.

by the way gf225 i've gutted my 12G AGAIN. i have too much riccia to fit in the existing setup so back to bare gravel at the moment. update soon..

 

[guppygirl]

It's perfectly normal! Plus I think it's gorgeous!

I like the pearling stream coming up too!!!

 

[jimbooo]

oh yeah didn't even notice that.

see if you can spot daddy snail (trumpet snail)

ok no chance. he's on the edge of the cave roof under the bottom cardinal tetra.