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Hi, I am prety new to planted aquariums and such so please bear with me! I only have one 20g. aquarium setup right now with slate and Java Fern which arent looking to good. They have some darker brown, almost black spots. I have heard that leaves turn brown\ black when they have an overdose of iron, but is that true?
Thanks JakeJ

Sorry no idea. I never had mine turn black. I have had it turn brown but new growth was nice and green so I just removed the brown.

Do you remove the ugly leaves even if their arent many other leaves?

I am also thinking about getting a small piece of drift wood and putting some Anubias barteri and java moss on it, because I need some diffrent plants other than java fern.

Just got LOTS of java moss.

Never liked java moss or Anubias of any kind. But I have seen them look great in other tanks. They just look messy in mine. lol
Be sure to post new pictures.

Pictures it is! The water is a little cloudy because I had just did a huge cleaning.

I am hopeing to get my hand on a new light fixture, some crypts and lots anubias.

Well I have upgraded the 20 gallon to a 29 gallon. I have done it pure Walstad style. Soil and gravel. Right now the tank is very cloudy so geting some carbon in the morning in hopes to clear it some. Can't do water changes to clear it cause of the high ammonia in our tap water at this time.
I am going by the book this time and this is the biggest one like this I have done. Sure hope I can get it to work out.
My last one was the 20 gallon and it only lasted about 6 months it got messy and I was not feeding the fish enough and I was doing to many water changes.
Ill add a picture when I get it to clear up.