Minimize Aquarium Plant Melt - Biology

[@lemonlizard1]

An important note is that melt doesn't mean death. There have been lots of cases where someone removes a melted crypt or stem thinking it's dead, but in reality the plant is still adapting to the new conditions. If they were to wait 1-2 more weeks the plant would come back looking even healthier

[@AquariumPlantLab]

Absolutely! This is one of the topics I’m going to cover in this series :)

[@grisenochbiet4532]

Hi, i have a question. Should i just let them be or cut the melted leaves?

[@lemonlizard1]

@@grisenochbiet4532 if you have fish in the tank I would remove the melted leaves since they release ammonia. If you don't have fish in there, you could leave it in since it can also act as a sort of fertilizer

[@grisenochbiet4532]

@@lemonlizard1 okay! Thanks, I'm getting shrimp tomorrow so this will definitely help!

[@antonfelice5284]

​@@lemonlizard1lol don't baby your fish, that's natural occurrence in nature, living creatures can still swim even there are dead bodies lying at the bottom.

[@tkaquascaping3945]

Love this topic! I’ve found that hobbyists new to plants are often discouraged when plant melt occurs.

[@lemonlizard1]

Yeah one of my first plants were crypts and I heard about crypt melt so I wasn't too discouraged, but it took wayy longer for my crypts to adapt and settle (3-5 months). Now it look amazing and doing better than any other plant

[@AnyfinsPossible-ng2zt]

I removed all the Bacopa monnieri from my low tech aquarium because it grew annoyingly slow. However, I saved a few cuttings to plant outdoors as emersed pond plants where they've been performing much better.

[@DGGuaglianone]

My plants melted for almost a year before they started thriving in my tank with my city’s water.

[@carolinesalpeck2567]

I wish more people talked about stuff like this! I thought I was terrible at keeping aquarium plants but turns out they were just all grown emersed so they needed a ton of time to grow back all new leaves and re-establish themselves. The only plant I’ve had that hasn’t had melt back is anubius, my Java and El Niño ferns all melted back and came back in their much smaller immersed form and I have an Amazon sword that took almost five years to start growing into the massive plant it is now! There are some common aquarium plants that have to grow in water though such as elodea and hornwort, as well as semi-aquatic plants that can never be kept fully immersed but can still grow in water, like ribbon pants and lucky bamboo, it’s really fascinating

[@NatashaReeder]

I think my Anubis plant is a god at this point. Everything else has either melted away, died. Been uprooted, or have deficiencies. But that one Anubis through thick and thin has turned into a unit and it’s about to grow its first flower :)

[@Mateiisback]

Can’t wait for the rest of the series!

[@mr.octopus6972]

I'm actually testing a theory in which they say most ferns can grow totally submerged. I submerged a Nephrolepis exaltata (Boston fern) into my aquarium. 4 days into the test, no sigh of melt yet.

[@thedoorisopen]

howd it go?

[@mr.octopus6972]

@@thedoorisopen 2 months after it has lost 1/2 of its branches but still the plant was green and alive. The leaves where not melting, just slowly detaching until a branch was empty of all it's leaves. This has not happened everywhere at the same time but rather one branch after the other very slowly. I then decided to put an end to the experiment just because it wasn't so aesthetic anymore. The plant was not planted in the substrate I just made it hold near the bottom with decorations. After 2 months none of the roots had tried to penetrate the substrate (?strange). By pulling it out of the tank I discovered it had multiplied near at the roots. For every branch I lost there was a young new plant to replace it ! I collected the baby ferns (about 10) these are born underwater and never touched air. I will continue the experiment with them. I think that being born underwater will give them a chance since the leaves aren't quite looking the same. I think they adapted. 2 days ago I detatched them from the mother and planted them in the substrate. They grow slow but seem fine.

[@mr.octopus6972]

@@thedoorisopen I've also seen people do this with bamboo

[@thedoorisopen]

really cool experiment, keep it up and thanks for the update@@mr.octopus6972

[@emikaneeran4490]

When I first started keeping planted tanks, I ordered some bucephalandra (highly recommended btw) of which had promptly lost/melted all of its leaves. However, I remember from my research and all the reviews that chances are they would bounce right back..and they did! They’re growing amazingly and slowly filling out the driftwood I placed it on. Same thing happened with my cryptocorene. Lost most of its leaves, and immediately bounced right back and is now expanding along the surface of the tank floor! I was so worried for those few weeks (possibly 2-3) that the plants were dead and would spike my ammonia, but all was fine! 😂 Now I only do water changes to maintain the hardness of my water/keep minerals in check. The plants really eat up all the decaying matter/waste! I had to supplement with fertilizer!! TL;DR Take the plunge, buy some plants. Expect some to die, and some to live. Trial and error but it will all be worth it!

[@HisValor]

So what’s the appropriate environment in which to keep these plants?

[@misterkurdapyo3463]

I planted variety of stem plants in one container in emersed way. Some of these plants are white ludwigia and rotalla (they aren't crowded). After almost 3 weeks, they completely melted including their stems. Not sure if there are some of the roots in it. It's almost 2 weeks before they completely melted and haven't seen any growth yet. I use lights on them (5-8 hrs a day) and a substrate of garden soil + vermicast. Is there still any hope for it to grow?

[@MikeHuntsPews]

will melted areas of aquarium plants grow back, all the stem under the new growth?

[@arthanarid.a4397]

Three feet planted tank non CO2 plants. But the leaves are melting . The temperature is 28°c and it is summer time in India. Give some tips for this issue. It will be very helpful for me

[@sambarvada]

Which plants do you have?

[@permashock8068]

What are the green plants in this video at the right side of the aquarium. I have TONS of these but don’t know what they are?

[@AquariumPlantLab]

I believe that plant was Ludwigia Repens. It’s a very common easy to grow aquarium plant :)

[@permashock8068]

No, the all green plants with oval shaped leaves on the right next to the red stem plants

[@AquariumPlantLab]

@@permashock8068 that’s Ludwigia. The only other green plant in the frame is Staurogyne Repens.

[@permashock8068]

Ok thank you. I have a plant that I cannot for the life of me identify. It’s not ludwigia but it does look similar

[@AquariumPlantLab]

@permashock8068 in this video, though it is Ludwigia Repens, it does look similar to Bacopa Caroliniana or moneywort. Have you looked into those as possibilities? Also there are a number of different types of Ludwigia, could be another variety. Hard to say without seeing a photo.

[@AussieAquatic]

SUPER Video Will 😁👍

[@spinne1312]

Can i keep an aquatic plant in a mason jar full of water?

[@amrutpat12]

Do plants make when there's a change in water flow (by adding flow maker)of the tank?

[@lemonlizard1]

Plants could melt after any change in conditions but that's fairly uncommon. Changing flow would usually not result in melt

[@CLifemusic]

I picked 3 plants growing out of the edge of the bayou..I don't know the name they have a thick green stem,big leaves and grow a purple flower..I put them in my tank and they died(its a new tank weeks in) should I pull them out.i was told no the root system is still growing but I was also told dead plants shoot up the nitrates? What do you think?

[@ItzAzAM28]

Waiting for all reel of this series 🌝☕

[@ujj6866]

Writing a comment so that my algorithm puts more of your content in my feed

[@ivorlonwilliams7679]

me too😂

[@Byron4343]

My planted tank is looking horrible. I'm thinking it's because it's in my garage in the Texas heat.

[@AquariumPlantLab]

Happy to help diagnose. What is the water temp, substrate, light, ferts, what is the issue?

[@Byron4343]

@@AquariumPlantLab the water temp peaks at 94 degrees, eco complete substrate, a 36 inch hyger plant light on a 75gallon heavily planted tank, I have about 10 anubias and a few of the leafs are solid yellow and the tips on all are turning yellow. Different kinds of ferns glued to drift wood are either yellow or brown and amazon swords have a few yellow leafs and a bad case of black beard algae to go along with all of it.

[@AquariumPlantLab]

@Byron4343 temp is definitely too high. Do you dose at all? Any fast growing plants or all rhizomes?

[@Byron4343]

@@AquariumPlantLab every few weeks I add flourish form seachem. What should the water temperature be?

[@Byron4343]

I'm fairly new so I don't know what you mean by rhizhomes

[@iainaquariumagic]

Well done great advice 👍🐠🐟💦

[@mattriggs.aquaria]

Same

[@MRworldEtIkA]

thought im cursed, turns out i planted dry land plants instead of aquatic ones🙏😭

[@temporarybackup5077]

I could've sworn it was in this video or another one I watched right before this video that said that there are many dry land/terrain plants that are actually perfectly compatible as aquatic environment plants as well. They just happen to be so numerous to name them individually outside of the most common ones. Also learned I think in that same video, that lots of terrain plants may have even started off as semi aquatic or even fully submerged aquatic plants before transitioning into terrain plants.

[@byz513]

No melt!

[@CrazyBritTho]

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[@jackwu3189]

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