Help! Anubias in Bad Shape

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Bummer. Hoping the rhizomes stay healthy.
On the plus side... the pair of blue angels decided it was a good time to spawn... on the filter intake ??‍♀️
Broke down the tank and set it up Sunday, so I’m feeling pretty good they’re happy enough after 5 days to spawn. I think they liked the additional Angels being added yesterday.
 
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***UPDATE***
I ended up pruning probably 70% of the leaves, one piece There was only a couple places where the rhizomes seemed mushy. Whatever leaves that would snap off at the base/rhizome were removed. I did this instead of cutting them.

each bit of rhizome seems to be developing new leaves at the ends. And in some places, it looks like new little green spikes are popping out (hopefully more new leaves to fill in the middle).

managed to corral the 5 SAE and 6 panda corys from the 180gal to help with the algae, and started putting all my mystery snail hatchlings in there. At first it was so they’d get eaten, but the angels would just spit them out ?
I realized how fast they were growing, and how healthy the shells are, so it’s a great tank to grow-out in before selling. I bet they’re loving the dead plant material and algae and leftovers. I also like to think of snails on injured plants like maggots on a flesh-wound, eating the rot so healthy tissue can grow.
Got some swords, hair grass, crypts, Ludwigia, sat on the way to help fill it in, thinking about taking the driftwood piece that’s nearly bare and putting it in the adjacent 75gal to free up some space for swimming room and plants.

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New growth looking great!
There are still quite a few old, damaged leaves that can be cut off (I would). While doing so may make the plant look just like a worm (the rhizome), it will continue to grow new and beautiful leaves, which will become large relatively fast. The old, damaged leaves would only look ugglier and ugglier, never recover, and will shade and compete for light with the new ones.
 
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FJB said:
New growth looking great!
There are still quite a few old, damaged leaves that can be cut off (I would). While doing so may make the plant look just like a worm (the rhizome), it will continue to grow new and beautiful leaves, which will become large relatively fast. The old, damaged leaves would only look ugglier and ugglier, never recover, and will shade and compete for light with the new ones.
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for sure! I guess my logic was if the leaves were alive enough to hang on while I “tested” them, they could probably still absorb light and create energy for new growth... maybe the rhizomes contain chloroplasts too, but aquatic botany isn’t a strength of mine ?

what I’ll probably end up doing is wait for semester to be over (2 more weeks?) then fiddle around with it. Prune/ rearrange/ plant. It will give the newest mystery snails a bit of time to grow and I’ll put any babies that hatch from now til then in a breeder box. Also waiting for the critters to work off some of the black algae from the leaves... they’re slow, but making progress.

The algae in that tank is INSANE right now. Hoping when I add the new plants I have coming, they’ll compete with the light and nutrients more. It’s got sunlight from maybe 7-8am to sunset, in addition to the coral-life light
 
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That's beautiful.
 
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