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Originally Posted by dufus
Maybe add a small predator to eat off some of them, then take it out after a week or two.
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Naaaa. I don't want to kill them. I just want to know if they are attacking my anubias. I'd rather have periodic anubias leaf loss than algae. And while I can't give my amanos all the credit for low algae, I'm sure they are pulling their load!
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Originally Posted by Jens
Is the rhizome soft? Some of my anubias plants disintegrate in a bare bottom tank running with low light. But the leaf stem and rhizome are soft in this case.
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Good question. Thanks. But no. The rhizome, leaf, and stem are ALL rigid. In fact, the spot that breaks is not soft. Hmmmm.......
As I was tying this - specifically the word "breaks" - it got me thinking. Maybe I DON'T have a deficiency! Especially since the spot where they separate is pretty rigid too.... Maybe I just have some big freaking fish, blasting around my tank and knocking off a leaf every now and then!
Hmmm.... the plot thickens.
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Originally Posted by bastalker
When you comin to this part a town? Love ta have ya over for a beer or two anyways!
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Thanks Mark! Two sounds good. Let's make that happen. I'd get a kick out of that! And thanks for the kind words.
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Originally Posted by styxx
Well I have read your thoughts on this so far and as an ADA devotee I have to say that I usually don't have problems with Anubias except for yellowing which I typically solve with a few drops of ADA ECA (its like super concentrated Iron) and that fixes things quickly. Maybe you could try that and see what happens...imho Anubias have problems with Iron deficiency even in ADA substrate which usually requires an additional source of Iron...just a thought.
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Good points. But these are not yellowing. And more important, they are not in ANY substrate, ADA or otherwise. They are on driftwood, getting all their nutrients out of the water column.
And I've got ECA, but I stopped using it once I switched from Green Brighty Step 1 to Step 2. As I understand it the only difference is that Step 2 has Iron, where step 1 does not.
BUT, just because my micros (Step 2) included iron, that doesn't mean they had enough. Granted. But they were showing no signs of iron deficiency. So I'm not sure more iron is my answer. Thanks though.