I have had this plant for a week or so now, and it grows great. 1-2 new leaves every day or 2 com shooting from the bulb. I like the positioning and the growth of this plant, I would like the appearance if the leaves hadn't turned to a brown/redish color. I have plenty of light (3w/gal) and no other plants are blocking light to it. I am injecting CO2 into the aquarium as and the leaves pearl nicley (even the off-colored ones). So photosynthsis is taking place... I just added some ferts around the bulb hopeing to get the color back in this plant. It would be an awesome plant if it kept the bright green that I see them in other people's aquariums.

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I have one A. crispus that does the same thing. Let me know if increased root feeding seems to do the trick.

George

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are you adding any ferts to your tank with the A. crispus? If so what do you dose with? Would just like to start eliminating possible causes for the discolleration.

I have added Fe and Trace recently and added florenette A root tabs around the bulb.

 

How about I tell you what I don't dose instead?

I haven't put root tabs in since March. I dose pretty much everything else.

George

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How many W/gal do you currently have on yours? I changed one of my bulbs after a week of adding the root tabs with no results. In the rear of the tank i was running lighting around 6700K I replaced one of the 2 with an Ultra Trilux (around 9600K I think) from what I have read this paticular plant requires a lot of light and frets.

Anyone lese have experiences with this plant?

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I'm running about 4.5 WPG. I am currently using 50/50 10,000K/actinic bulbs.

George

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