vialli
Seedling
Hi
Ive just started a cold water tank with white cloud mountain minnows and wanted to add some live plants so after looking at a few websites i decided to go with java fern as pretty much every website said it a good beginner plant and perfect for a cold water tank.I bought one plant and divided it into smaller plants and tied it to small bits of lava rock but after a few days i noticed that brown and black patches started to appear on the leaves and every day it seems to get worse and some leaves now have holes in them.
After doing a bit more research it may be possible that i may have a nutrient deficiency so i got some easylife profito from the lfs and picked up another java fern plant at the same time.I dosed the tank with the profito as per instructions but the leaves seem to be getting worse slowly and ive noticed some small black spots on the new plant that i bought.
the tank is a fluval roma 240
lighting is two fluval aquaskys
temp is 20
i havn't done any other water tests yet as i didnt think i would need to as i was told that java fern is a hardy plant and adapatable to most water conditions.
Im using tap water that has about 40ppm out of the tap.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong as i dont want to keep buying more plants if are a going to wither away and die
Tanks in advance.
Ive just started a cold water tank with white cloud mountain minnows and wanted to add some live plants so after looking at a few websites i decided to go with java fern as pretty much every website said it a good beginner plant and perfect for a cold water tank.I bought one plant and divided it into smaller plants and tied it to small bits of lava rock but after a few days i noticed that brown and black patches started to appear on the leaves and every day it seems to get worse and some leaves now have holes in them.
After doing a bit more research it may be possible that i may have a nutrient deficiency so i got some easylife profito from the lfs and picked up another java fern plant at the same time.I dosed the tank with the profito as per instructions but the leaves seem to be getting worse slowly and ive noticed some small black spots on the new plant that i bought.
the tank is a fluval roma 240
lighting is two fluval aquaskys
temp is 20
i havn't done any other water tests yet as i didnt think i would need to as i was told that java fern is a hardy plant and adapatable to most water conditions.
Im using tap water that has about 40ppm out of the tap.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong as i dont want to keep buying more plants if are a going to wither away and die
Tanks in advance.