Hello folks, I'm not new to keeping plants and generally I'm able to do so pretty well these days. However, I've run across a problem that has me a bit baffled. My 30 cm cube has experienced two rounds of spontaneous melting and browning in some plants. The first episode began about 2 weeks ago, the top leaves of the mini myrio turned downward and after several days browned and melted. I saw browning in my mini pelia and even some it would appear in the E.parvula. H. pinnatifida looks fine as does the anubias. I chalked it up to doing something wrong at my last maintenance where I changed water and cleaned the atomizer. Maybe I didn't rinse the acid detergent off of atomizer well enough or maybe I forgot dechlorinator.
So after seeing all the browning and melting I decided I would remove the dying stems and replace with healthy ones. It has been about 36 hours and I can see the browning beginning to happen to the new stems. I don't expect to see the pelia improve quickly...but what is troubling is the new stems from another tank are looking like they are beginning to take the same turn. I did a large water change and made sure to use Prime at the time of replanting.
Any ideas what could be going on? I can upload some pictures as I took some before removing all the plants. The overall impression of the tank from afar is a bit dreary and browning. It is not the bright vibrant green of a couple weeks ago.
So after seeing all the browning and melting I decided I would remove the dying stems and replace with healthy ones. It has been about 36 hours and I can see the browning beginning to happen to the new stems. I don't expect to see the pelia improve quickly...but what is troubling is the new stems from another tank are looking like they are beginning to take the same turn. I did a large water change and made sure to use Prime at the time of replanting.
Any ideas what could be going on? I can upload some pictures as I took some before removing all the plants. The overall impression of the tank from afar is a bit dreary and browning. It is not the bright vibrant green of a couple weeks ago.