Brown Bits On Plants

[mhancock]

The title says it really - some of my plants are turning brown, it's mainly at the ends of the leaves.

Do they need some ferts or CO2? The tank is well planted with lots of fish, so would have assumed plenty of nitrates for the plants however nitrates showed as zero when I tested.

 

[FishFanatic04]

What is your lighting? Are the leaves going transparent or dissolving?

 

[mhancock]

Hi there, thanks for responding.

Lighting is what came with the tank, 2 florescent strips. They are not going transparent or dissolving!

I could put a pic on if that would help? The only think I can think of is that the external filter is due a clean out!

 

[FishFanatic04]

A picture of the plants would help. Even if I don't know the problem I could refer it to someone who would.

 

[mhancock]

Here's some pics:

I cannot upload pics to this thread, but they are on THIS LINK

 

[snowflake311]

Looks like you have a hungry sword. I have kept one sword for 2 years almost killed it and brought it back. These plants are heavy root feeding plants. If they don't have any nurtiance in the substrate they suffer. Adding ferts to the water will help too. Swords suffer when there is not enough iron. Get some root tabs and flourish. This will help.

The Anubias I see near the middle on the grown. These plants do best when tied onto wood. The plants on the left look like plants like like more light. I need a better photo to ID them.

Try adding ferts it will help. Plants need more then just nitrates.

 

[DrRob]

+1 to that. Swords are fairly hungry root feeders, and are otherwise relatively uncomplicated. They are also prone to melting if they're shipped with emmersed leaves (which most new ones are), although to my less educated eye (I'm rubbish at getting swords to grow, they're my real bugbear plant, but on the list of things to have another go at) those look like they've been there a while.

Go for the root tabs or some liquid ferts if you can't. This doesn't look like CO2 deficiency.

 

[mhancock]

Thank you for the replies, much appreciated, will try some ferts!