Black Java????

[FINWIN]

Awhile ago I treated the 125 for columnaris with meds and salt. So it clearly affected the java plants. But here's what's weird. A couple of leaves shed but it seems to have a permanent color change! Under regular light it looks almost black. Under bright light its like half green/black on each leaf side. It isn't rotting at all. Anyone ever have java do this? Crazy!

 

[tlindsey]

Awhile ago I treated the 125 for columnaris with meds and salt. So it clearly affected the java plants. But here's what's weird. A couple of leaves shed but it seems to have a permanent color change! Under regular light it looks almost black. Under bright light its like half green/black on each leaf side. It isn't rotting at all. Anyone ever have java do this? Crazy!

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Yes going through that but believe it or not if you feed the melting leaves will produce new plants. Java fern are heavy feeders. I started feeding more. Almost tossed the dying java fern.

 

[jjohnwm]

I have been trying, off and on, to grow this accursed plant species for the better part of 40 years. It always does that! I have never been able to produce the sort of beautiful specimen that you see in the pics; mine always start out great, because I select carefully, and then they slowly, gradually decline into the sad disgusting mess in your pic. They will produce new leaves, and often the leaves will be crowded with baby plantlets...but those never grow.

tlindsey has repeated one of the many suggested treatments and solutions I have heard over the years. None of them work for me.

I'm pretty certain that I warned you about this vile fern in another thread sometime back, when you mentioned you would try it. It's a guaranteed-to-die species; it just does it so slowly, so gradually, that it lulls you into a false sense of security. It's bound to get better, isn't it? No! It will just turn black and die so slowly...so gradually...no dramatic turning-to-mush, no painful-to-watch "melting"...until one day you look into your tank and there is nothing left of it. All the plantlets, all that hope for the future...poof! Gone!

 

[FINWIN]

I have been trying, off and on, to grow this accursed plant species for the better part of 40 years. It always does that! I have never been able to produce the sort of beautiful specimen that you see in the pics; mine always start out great, because I select carefully, and then they slowly, gradually decline into the sad disgusting mess in your pic. They will produce new leaves, and often the leaves will be crowded with baby plantlets...but those never grow.

tlindsey has repeated one of the many suggested treatments and solutions I have heard over the years. None of them work for me.

I'm pretty certain that I warned you about this vile fern in another thread sometime back, when you mentioned you would try it. It's a guaranteed-to-die species; it just does it so slowly, so gradually, that it lulls you into a false sense of security. It's bound to get better, isn't it? No! It will just turn black and die so slowly...so gradually...no dramatic turning-to-mush, no painful-to-watch "melting"...until one day you look into your tank and there is nothing left of it. All the plantlets, all that hope for the future...poof! Gone!

Here's the thing: I've got mixed results. I put in 2 pieces in the 225 as a test. They are spotty too. However the ones in the 40 gallon tanks and growout are doing great.

In the 125 they were fine until the meds and salt got to them. They started spotting by day 4 of the columnaris treatment. In a funky kinda way they look cool. Under lower light they look solid black.

I've got some seachem growth goop in a jug so I'll try that.

 

[jjohnwm]

...However the ones in the 40 gallon tanks and growout are doing great.

...so far...personally, I think they're just dying more slowly...

But I've got my fingers crossed for you.