Many reasons such as :Newly planted, Used excel in tank, medicated the tank,changed yr ferts, changed ferts dosage, a changed in tap water or used RO, bright light/changed yr lights, etc.. Egeria Densa is sensitive to changeds in an aquarium and it reacts by melting.
I see. Mine's a newly planted tank:
Lights: 2sets of 2x24W
Liquid fert: ADA Brighty K
Substrate: ADA Amazonia
CO2: 2bps
Lights duration: 8hrs in the evening and 3hrs morning
The stem looks really healthy and green though and I could see new shoots coming out from the stem. Therefore, I presume that the slight melting on the leaves are normal, showing a sight to actually get use to the environment?
2 cells thick? I tried googling on the plant, not very helpful though. Never really mention the problems people come into when caring for them. So I suppose this could be normal?
An update on my Egeria densa. After weeks, it seems to be growing pretty okay with no signs of dying. Yesterday I did a quick relocation, I moved all my densa to a spot under my driftwood:
after a couple of minutes, guess what happened:
Yes! It started to pearl! Nice, I believe the new location provided my densa with sufficient lighting, thus causing more photosynthesis and in turn it started to pearl.
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