Echinodoros problems - Please help !

[kellyboy47]

Hi,
I bought 2 x Echinodoros Bleheris (Tropica) from my local Pets at Home store just 4 days ago and the attached pics are how they look today. I also thought I had bought a 3rd Bleheri but I think it had been wrongly labelled (pic 1) so I would be grateful if someone could identify it before it has died completely

I am using APF PLant Nutrition and EasyCarbo daily and things had been going well but now this has happened...please any help would be welcomed[img

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[m_attt]

have you got a pleco in the tank?

 

[kellyboy47]

Yes I have unfortunately....why do you think it is down to him then ?

 

[m_attt]

i think so, thoose plants lasted oh all about 2 hours when i put them in lol, Went to them like magnet and rasped on them and they look same as yours.

 

[kellyboy47]

Thanks for that...Think I'll take them out and rescue them...been thinking of moving my Plec on anyway so might try a trade at my LFS for something a little less hungrier !!!

 

[ghostsword]

Plec and ancistrus love echinodorus. Zebra ottos also, but they are much smaller.


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[tonyg1]

you could always try putting a couple of slices of cucumber in the tank.my two bristle noses were having a beanfeast on my plants but they pretty much leave them alone now.

 

[kellyboy47]

Thanks Tony but for my peace of mind although I've got used to having my Plec, at the moment I am trying to make my tank look better and he is not helping matters as it may be

 

[tonyg1]

it does'nt matter where i put the cucumber they alway's find it so you could hang it out of the way(i hang mine at the front so i can watch them squabble over whichever piece)as its in the tank as a food item it does'nt distract from the tank as it can simply be removed for the sake of photo's etc and its a good way to check out they're overall health.i use a couple of pieces of aluminium wire to suspend it at the front of the tank and change it every day or i may change to courgette for a change.