White Spots On Anubias

[Rlon35]

I am getting these small white spots on my anubias lately. I typically just prune these leaves, but is this is a nutritional deficiency, I'd like to correct it. These plants are in a 55 g fully planted tank with injected co2. I dose with Flourish Comprehensive 2 days per week, plus iron and potassium 2 days per. I have been lax with the excel, as I ran out and didn't reorder yet. Plus, I can't find it in local stores. The spots look like tiny blerch spots or something (they are white, not yellow). I should also mention that there are a ton of baby snails in the tank, which come out at night. The adults I see are MTSs, so I am assuming these are as well (also because they tend to come out of the substrate at night). I recently started using leaf zone, as it has both iron and potassium, in my mind eliminating the need to dose 2 different bottles.

Also, my hole tank is overgrown with dwarf sag. I'd love to just give it as hair cut, but I am pretty sure you dont prune the plant in this manner.

 

[Rlon35]

I am getting these small white spots on my anubias lately. I typically just prune these leaves, but is this is a nutritional deficiency, I'd like to correct it. These plants are in a 55 g fully planted tank with injected co2. I dose with Flourish Comprehensive 2 days per week, plus iron and potassium 2 days per. I have been lax with the excel, as I ran out and didn't reorder yet. Plus, I can't find it in local stores. The spots look like tiny blerch spots or something (they are white, not yellow). I should also mention that there are a ton of baby snails in the tank, which come out at night. The adults I see are MTSs, so I am assuming these are as well (also because they tend to come out of the substrate at night). I recently started using leaf zone, as it has both iron and potassium, in my mind eliminating the need to dose 2 different bottles.

Also, my hole tank is overgrown with dwarf sag. I'd love to just give it as hair cut, but I am pretty sure you dont prune the plant in this manner.

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Ooops....I just realized another possibility, sprung out of my own laziness. Because I only use RO water, I use Seachem Equilibrium. Instead of diluting it first, I just add it directly to the tank and let it break down. I know that some of it lands on the anubias leaves, but I just didn't think it could do that to the leaves. Can it???

 

[aaronnorth]

with the sag just experiment on a few plants, try different pruning techniques, if they die no big deal, you still have the rest left! lol

anubias does well with extra trace elements, can you get a picture please?

 

[RadaR]

Any Nerite snails in the tank?

 

[Rlon35]

Any Nerite snails in the tank?

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Why, yes, but I didn't think they could be responsible at all....interesting. I have about 3 spotted and 3 striped nerites. I didn't think they damaged plants at all.

with the sag just experiment on a few plants, try different pruning techniques, if they die no big deal, you still have the rest left! lol

anubias does well with extra trace elements, can you get a picture please?

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Definitely can't hurt to just stop chopping sag. I will have enough of this stuff for the rest of my life...lol. Can't shoot a pic because I pruned and removed all the affected leaves today. I do have nerites, however, so if the other poster asked because that is the potential explanation, perhaps it is. Are the nerites damagine the leaves directly or through a reproductive process. I know their babies can't survive in freshwater, from what I have read.

 

[RadaR]

Any Nerite snails in the tank?

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Why, yes, but I didn't think they could be responsible at all....interesting. I have about 3 spotted and 3 striped nerites. I didn't think they damaged plants at all.

Didn't think they damaged them, but laid eggs on them. Unhatchable eggs that is because they need brackish water to hatch. I've seen Nerites lay eggs on Anubias before, just a thought.