Idk if you can see from the picture but there are a decent amount of brown and yellow floaters ☹️ (removed right after I took the picture). Water levels are normal. They are mini Amazon Frogbit and water spangles. it’s my first time having a planted tank so idk if it’s normal or if I’m doing something wrong. I’m not sure if I need to add fertilizer (I haven’t because I read the fish would be the natural fertilizer), or if the light is too strong/ low or is it normal for a fourth of them to die within a few weeks of receiving them? Thanks for your help! Pic of Bean at the end just cause
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I have been removing dead leaves pretty much since I put them in the tank and assumed it was normal for a few to die but it’s been a few weeks and it’s still happening so I figured I’d ask for help before they’re all gone
With my own experience they tend to not like flow or the tops of its leaves wet. Im not sure if that is true for all floaters but thats what Red Root floaters were like that.
In my experience, amazon frog bit loves nutrients. Ive noticed it does best with an aquasoil, or nutrient dense substrate layer that can leach into the water column. One betta in a larger tank really a lot of nutrients for plants, especially when you have other plants sucking up some of the nutrients. Id suggest adding a bit of liquid aquarium fertilizer (but watch your nitrites). I do see longer roots on some of them which means they are still able to grow and get some nutrients from the fish/water column. I will also add that die off in the first 1-2 weeks is pretty common.
Floaters don’t like strong water current, don’t like water on top of their leaves, takes up a lot of nitrogen waste which in turns require you to fertilizing them really well otherwise they start to die off due to nutrient deficiency. Yellowing signals phosphorus or iron deficiencies, most likely the former due to it being a macronutrient.
How often do you clean your tank? How often do you clean the substrate? Is your substrate aqua soil?
I use Colombo Flora Grow(liquid fertilizer), I even underdose but my floaters go crazy!
You need fertilizer. I use ones your bury and the liquid drops.
Meanwhile, i’m trying to stop my floaters from growing so quickly.. (not trolling, it’s becoming a problem lol)
I have salvinia minima in my tanks and it grows really well. I don’t supplement the tank with anything. I’d give that floater a shot!
What I’ve learned with floaters is that the less you care about them the better they grow lol I was having trouble with it growing in one of my tanks. I gave up and just left a bit in there. A week later it was flourishing.
That looks like a pothos clipping, that will outcompete most of the plants in your tank for nutrients.
Floaters need extremely low flow as others have mentioned. What i haven’t seen is regarding your Anubias. Are they buried in the substrate?