[Seadon]

I apologize in advance for my newbieness, but what does DSM stand for?


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[Seadon]

Oh I figured it out..dry start method...sorry for wasting time, I feel silly now :-[


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[Seadon]

They obviously have good healthy soil, so I would say the only explanation is the shock of going from submerged to emersed, there is still some good life in them I would say don't get 5 alarm worries until they have been in there a week and they get a little worse, I've seen plants get worse than that and still turn around.


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[Seadon]

I would say the extra misting would help, but I don't think you want to to the point that water is puddling, I'm no expert on DSM though, maybe OP can try more misting and a more evap proof top?


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[Seadon]

I'm not sure about misting as much. From what I'm reading is that hc doesn't appreciate being soaked all the time. I also noticed everything in the tank is staying quite moist even the stones with the top slightly open during the day. I just hope the plants come back to life lol! It's been day 4 now...

I would hold back then, but I think a more evap proof top raising the humidity might make the nutrients more available through the foliage?..again I'm just hypothesizing...it's weird to me how plants that grow under water, when grown emersed will do worse if the get overly wet lol. But like I said, I'm a complete DSM noob, so that's a concept I'll have to learn.


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[Seadon]

Well that's good! Keep updating the pics I'm interested, I may try this method if you have good luck for my HC


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[Seadon]

Looks like you're doing good & your through the worst of it. With these things a lot of times I find it looks worse before it gets better


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[Seadon]

what might have happened is your HC may have been originally grown submersed, then a few leaves dried out when they were emersed, then a fungus attacked some of them a little later on when the enclosure got too wet.

This scenario sounds a lot like what I've always known to be called pithium in the horticulture world, is it the same in the aquatic plant realm?


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I tried to get better pictures of the plants up close but can't seem to get them to be clear enough.

I am not finding any web like stuff growing on or near the HC. Is Necrosis always visible in web like form?

I noticed I do have some growth coming. I think I have a few patches that are completely dead.. Like 3 or 4 of them. Ill wait it out for another week and see what happens.

I am also spraying with carbon excel diluted with DI water. I wonder what would happen if I sprayed peroxide on the plant?

I would try misting a 3% hydro peroxide solution


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[Seadon]

Will excel help prevent fungus?

I would say in and of itself, no...but with a little time it may help the plants get a little stronger and healthier, helping them fight it off on their own better.


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