What's wrong with my anubias?

[Lady Hobbs]

After having this thing for a couple years, it finally took off and began to grow. Now in the last month it's appearing to have transparent leaves. The tips of my ludwigia also is appearing the same. I don't care about them as they get cut back every couple of months but I hate losing this anubias after all this time.

After not dosing with ferts for a long time, I started dosing again a couple months ago. You'd think it would be doing better, not worse. I have also added a bit of iron a few times, but not often.

29 gallon under 36 watts of T-5's.


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[Lady Hobbs]

Just noticed afternoon sun is coming in and hitting the tank. Wonder if this could be too much light? I have moved the plant just in case.

[Red]

it looks like algae on top of the leaves..

[frefal13]

Where exactly are the transparent leaves? I don't see any, I just see green leaves and leaves covered with the algae that comes with anubias lol

[Lady Hobbs]

Hummmm......I didn't consider for a minute this might be algae. Perhaps it is green spot but I've never had it before. I thought the color was leaving the leaf, not algae growing on it. I'll give it a bleach dip and see what happens.
(or peroxide) Whatever I have around here.

After checking all over the net, it is green spot! Must have been caused from the additional light with the afternoon sun hitting the tank for an hour.

Thanks

[Brhino]

my anubias looks just like that. New leaves look nice and fresh, old leaves have green spot.

[rich311k]

Green spot on anubias is common, Since the leaves are old and the plant is slow greowing, they aquire alage. You could try painting them with Excel or an algaecide to it from growing. There is reallly much to do but live with it and snip the really old ones off.

[Lady Hobbs]

I've never had this before but apparently the sunlight hitting the tank gave it what was needed to take off. The bleach dip helped and I may do another today and also moved it to a darker area in the tank.

I will also order some Excel. I grabbed the bleach because I didn't want to wait. Thanks for the help.

After one application of bleach is much better already.

[Lab_Rat]

I'm late to the party but that's definitely green spot algae. Move the plant away from the daylight.

[Fizgig]

Consider a buncha Olive Nerite Snails, too. If you look at my tank which has hundreds of Anubias plants of varying types, you'll see no algae on the Anubias leaves at all (some of the leaves are over 8yrs. old). The snails are the best algae consumers around & don't reproduce in fresh water. Just an idea for you.... I have the same sunlight issue as you, only more pronounced as my window is HUGE (8' W x 7' T), from Nov.-May. My living room tanks gets about an hour of full sun in the morning from the kitchen window, and about 3hrs, of full sun in the afternoon from the living room window, plus 11hrs. of lighting at 2 watts/gal. The snails still eliminate algae even with that amt. of light. I never move the Anubias plants to avoid the sunlight -- they actually like it even though they're low light plants.

Kinda late on the info., but hopefully it's useful to someone somewhere :hmm3grin2orange:

[Lady Hobbs]

No thank you. I have assassin snails already. My problem was solved a week ago anyway but thanks.

[SLeen]

Consider a buncha Olive Nerite Snails, too. If you look at my tank which has hundreds of Anubias plants of varying types, you'll see no algae on the Anubias leaves at all (some of the leaves are over 8yrs. old). The snails are the best algae consumers around & don't reproduce in fresh water. Just an idea for you.... I have the same sunlight issue as you, only more pronounced as my window is HUGE (8' W x 7' T), from Nov.-May. My living room tanks gets about an hour of full sun in the morning from the kitchen window, and about 3hrs, of full sun in the afternoon from the living room window, plus 11hrs. of lighting at 2 watts/gal. The snails still eliminate algae even with that amt. of light. I never move the Anubias plants to avoid the sunlight -- they actually like it even though they're low light plants.

Kinda late on the info., but hopefully it's useful to someone somewhere :hmm3grin2orange:

I think I might actually try these. Thanks for the info, even if it doesn't help Hobbs. :P