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I'm having a difficult time trying to get my wet thumb on...new anubias cong. Is not looking good. My fault for sure. I was told to sterilze with vinegar...safer than bleach I guess. Well I think I used to much or left it in too long. The leave turned to a very pale green and are flimsy and breaking at the stem. What to do? Do I cut off all the leaves? Will the plant still grow? Or will the leaves heal? Help please.

Also the tips of my anubias nana leaves are starting to curl under(not new leaves opening) could this be too much light?
 
three questions will help provide answers:

1) what type of lighting and what kind of bulb?
2) what are your water parameters (ph, hardness)
3) did you plant the anubias in the substrate, or are they attached to drfitwood/rocks?
 
hmm this is amazing I have anubias and its indestructible I have no lighting its not planted (just floats around and its been torn up by my dempsey the stupid thing still grows I dont like it very much but id feel bad to get rid of it.
 
hey, I left some anubias in a container in my garage for over a month (forgot about 'em) . . . when I found the box, they were still alive, even had some new leaves (the new leaves were a very light green)

I put them outside on my patio to get some natural sunlight . . . they are thriving

point being: these are tough plants
 
Ph- 7.4
gh,kh-?
Lighting-about 1.3 wpg
temp- 80-82F
it's planted in the substrate.
I added flourish tabs and dose with leaf zone once a week.
I'm pretty sure the vinegar bath did it. It was a matter of minutes when "tranformation" happened. Like 30 minutes. My anubias nana is on driftwood and was thriving until I upped the lighting a lil bit. But can I save my anubias cong.? The leaves are about a foot tall and I don't want to cut them if they can heal up. Or do I rip it out...it looks pretty sad and I don't want to foul the water.
 
Unless you bathed it in pure vinegar, it was not the vinegar. Anubias can even take on a bleach bath, and have no problems. What kind of lighting do you have? WPG doesn't apply to so many types of lighting, that it is useless to bother giving that info anymore. A 30 minute die off of anubias in general is a sign of something far stronger than even pure vinegar. Did it come into contact with anything else?
 
WyldFya;4438438; said:
Unless you bathed it in pure vinegar, it was not the vinegar. Anubias can even take on a bleach bath, and have no problems. What kind of lighting do you have? WPG doesn't apply to so many types of lighting, that it is useless to bother giving that info anymore. A 30 minute die off of anubias in general is a sign of something far stronger than even pure vinegar. Did it come into contact with anything else?
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WyldFya is right about both the toughness of anubias - - I have bleach dipped them with no major problems - - and that if all of this happened so quickly, it might point to something about your treatment

for my lighting question, I was looking more for info on the type of lighting:
> T12? T8? T5? compact flourescent? incandescent?
> spectrum? 6700K? 10,000K? other? (usually printed on the bulb)
 
I have two powerglo 40w and a 38w 11000k. This is a 72 gallon bowfront. The ratio of vinegar to water was brutal looking back. Along the lines of 10-1. Straight from the shop to home in 15 min. then a ten min. bath. Can anyone recommend a better method of sterilization?
 
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