[Duck5003]

I've been reading alot about buces the last few weeks and the amazonia may have changed your water chemistry, aside from ammonia. From what I read, a drastic change in water elements can cause the melting and med/large water changes may help to stop it. They are prone to melting like crypts from changes in the water.

No experience with it, just from quite a few posts/blogs I read about buces noted that in it.

Hit the nail on the head here. I think your chemistry changed to rapidly for them. I have had a few melt on me, some worse than others and this is typically right when i get them and it has always been buces i've ordered from CA that melt the most. As long as you have a healthy root left they will bounce back. Do you happen to know what PH, KH, GH was before and after in the tank?

 

[Duck5003]

That's a pretty big swing, i would say thats what did it. Assuming all other factors stayed the same; light, bulbs, photoperiod, temp etc. Switching from flora to amazonia wouldnt/shouldnt cause too drastic of a swing in your GH KH values. Not quickly anyway, but ph is a different story.


How are your roots looking??

 

[Duck5003]

In my experience, the rhizome will become brown and mushy if the whole thing is dead. As long as it is still solid and showing some green they will come back. I have two pieces of root that are growing new leaves that are less than a half inch of actual rhizome/root that i almost threw away