Plants have brown on leaves

[FreshwaterHawaii]

40 breeder
Eco complete
Medium light
No co2
Seachem flourish and excel
20% water change weekly
Only shrimps
All low light plants

Pretty much all of my plants have brown on the leaves. The plants continue to grow new leaves but they all eventually have brown patches on them.


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[FreshwaterHawaii]

Here are more pictures


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[RampageRR]

Does it rub off with your fingers? Kind of looks like BBA or some other type of algae from my phone screen. How long do you keep your lights on daily?

 

[FreshwaterHawaii]

No it doesn't come off when I rub it and I keep the lights on for roughly 9 hours.

I thought it was a brown algae too but it's only on the plants, not the wood, glass, gravel etc.


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[HybridHerp]

Its algae of some sort. If you are doing medium light, I would look into doing ferts. FLourish and excel are not enough to keep plants going well.

You need to provide a source of Nitrogen, Pottasium, and Phosphate, as well as trace materials. I find dry ferts to be the cheapest way to go about things, personally.

 

[burbon44s]

Your plants have roots. Use root tabs.
Plants with roots won't take nutrients from water column.


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[HybridHerp]

Your plants have roots. Use root tabs.
Plants with roots won't take nutrients from water column.


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That's not true actually. They just take more from the substrate but they still take from the water.

Also, the plant he showed is an Anubis, it's roots only grab onto things, it needs ferts in the water to a degree.


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[Aquaticfan]

Some plants are very specific root feeders. Look at plants like swords, crypts, val, lotus/lilly.... while it is possible for them to feed some from the column its not how its preference is by design. Take plants like water sprite or wisteria or about any other stem based plant or plants like anubias or java fern or hornwart.. all Are highly preferred yo column feed. This is why even when using basic substrate like pool filter sand and doing estimative index dosing along with root tabs can grow anything with the right balance of light co2 and nutrients

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[burbon44s]

It looked like his plant was in the substrate, that's why I recommended root tabs

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[FreshwaterHawaii]

it is rooted in the substrate and i am using root tabs.