Brazilian Pennywort Dying At Stem Base

[brichamp]

Hello! I'm new to planted aquariums and I have a planted tank that I set up three weeks ago. My brazilian pennywort seems to be doing fine except that I just noticed that the stems are dying off at the base and then the rest of the plant is separating from it and floating up. I'm fine with it just being a floating plant, but I was just wondering if this is normal or if something is wrong that I should be concerned about? My water tested fine. I'm using flourish excel, and I have about 1.7 wpg of T5 lighting. Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[aaronnorth]

how have you planted it? Is there enough light getting to the bottom? Some people plant about 10 stems together hen once it grows it blocks out light to the bottom.

Are you using any other source of nutrients? Excel only provides carbon, not Nitrogen, Phophorous, Potassium and trace elements which are needed.

 

[brichamp]

how have you planted it? Is there enough light getting to the bottom? Some people plant about 10 stems together hen once it grows it blocks out light to the bottom.

Are you using any other source of nutrients? Excel only provides carbon, not Nitrogen, Phophorous, Potassium and trace elements which are needed.

Sorry, I was wrong about my fertilizer. It's actually Seachem Flourish. The substrate is about 2 inches of Seachem Flourite. That's it. It's fairly open without any plants close by. The only thing that would block light to getting to the bottom is it's own leaves. I planted it just by burying about an inch of the stem.

Thanks!

 

[brichamp]

how have you planted it? Is there enough light getting to the bottom? Some people plant about 10 stems together hen once it grows it blocks out light to the bottom.

Are you using any other source of nutrients? Excel only provides carbon, not Nitrogen, Phophorous, Potassium and trace elements which are needed.

Sorry, I was wrong about my fertilizer. It's actually Seachem Flourish. The substrate is about 2 inches of Seachem Flourite. That's it. It's fairly open without any plants close by. The only thing that would block light to getting to the bottom is it's own leaves. I planted it just by burying about an inch of the stem.

Thanks!

To anyone who might be interested, I have since replanted all of the broken stems with the roots buried now, where before it was just the stems in the substrate. It seems to be doing better since. Guess I should've done that to begin with... it didn't come with any instructions...