Brown Leaves!

[Futralistic]

I am having problems with my first planted aquarium. I have a 55g tank with 80w of light, I have been using nutrafin plant gro, and I just last night installed a nutrafin co2 setup.

I have a couple swords a cabomba, wisteria, and some mondo grass and all of my plants to some extent seem to be turning brown the longer I have them. The crazy thing is at the same time the larger older leaves (it seems those are effected the most) are turning brown, the younger newer leaves seem to be doing fine, and some of the plants are even putting on new leaves.

Circulation in the tank is good. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ShoC]

I am having problems with my first planted aquarium. I have a 55g tank with 80w of light, I have been using nutrafin plant gro, and I just last night installed a nutrafin co2 setup.

I have a couple swords a cabomba, wisteria, and some mondo grass and all of my plants to some extent seem to be turning brown the longer I have them. The crazy thing is at the same time the larger older leaves (it seems those are effected the most) are turning brown, the younger newer leaves seem to be doing fine, and some of the plants are even putting on new leaves.

Circulation in the tank is good. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Just a quick quaetion,
Have ypu tried putting your hand into your tank and rubbing the leaves?
is it possible you have brown algae as I'm under attack atm,

 

[Futralistic]

Yes I have and yes it is. lol. On some of the plants like the mondo grass I can just rub the brown off, but on some of the other plants like the swords it seems as if the leaves are just dieing mostly from the edge in. My cabomba and wisteria are the strangest, they seem to be dieing at the bottom of the plants but the upper parts seem to be thriving. I fact on those two plants some of the stems look completely dead and brown up to a point, then they are bright green and healthy looking. I think I may have multiple problems here.

Thanks for the help ShoC

 

[ShoC]

I had a thread posted earlier and a valid point was made,
Amazon Sword plants used the substrate and they are very Greedy plants,
if your substrate is not rich they will die off,
you can buy Root Taps that go in the substrate next to them and give them nutrients they need,
google, Root taps for aquarium plants,
Hope this helps,