Thanks, Kate throatwarbler mangrove wrote:
FWIW, I could never get this plant to establish in my old fishroom. My water was very hard (so, anubias, african cichlids and mexican livebearers loved it). Was this an attempt to start the plant or was it established? I think I have seen bolbitis grown out of water and sold to the aquatic trade (much like those little pine-tree plants). Plants started this way generally have a hard time establishing themselves when submerged. Matt --- "Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@Boeing.com> wrote:Hi Kate, Have you treated your water for any type of diseases of late? I treated my tank for parasites awhile back and had a similar issue with my java fern. I was using formaldahyde and found my plants did not appreciate that at all. The leaves turned black slowly and then broke loose of the main root and floated away. Just a thought. And, I do not think that this is Off Topic for this list at all. In fact, I think this is a great item for the list. Clay -----Original Message----- From: June Olberding [mailto:jdolb1@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 9:29 AM To: gsas-member@thekrib.com Subject: Re: bolbitis heudelotii (plant) problem Hi Kate, I haven't had much experience with bolbitis. I know it doesn't seem to like really high light environments. I know you are not running high light tanks. You keep most of your water pretty soft. I don't know if that may be a problem. Mine is in a livebearer tank with KH of 4-5 and GH of 5-10. It does well in that environment which has about 2 watts /gal of shop light. It took a long time to establish and occasionally will have a section go black and fall away. Thought that to be normal or that I had damaged leaf working in tank. This may be inaccurate but I think it doesn't like to be disturbed or moved to new locations. AFA nutrients, I do run my tanks rather rich. Also you might try running a little DIY CO2 for it. Generally folks don't think of CO2 need in low light plant tanks, but has been my experience that adding CO2 did more than anything else, with the exception of Flourite substrate, to boost plant health in lower light environment. Re: OT. I would say definitely. Regards JuneHi, I am having a problem with my bolbitis ferns-thestems are turning blackand rotting, then leaving the ends with the leavesfree to disconnectand drift away from the mother plant. Some leavesalso turn black.Rhizomes are attached to wood, look fine. This ishappening in multipletanks. I have been pretty bad about fertilizingand light bulbs may beold but it seems odd that such a tolerant plantwould suffer the worstfor it while rotala indica which likeslight/fertilizer survives andturns pink at the ends. Any bolbitis tips? Or dothe old leaves just dothis after a while? Seems like more than half ofthe leaves on theaffected plants are going down, so it's probablynot only the oldestleaves dying, though the new ones are ok... Othertanks have youngerbolbitis cut from the same mother plant with thesame water parameters,no problem with them. Tips? By the way, is this considered OT for this group?Maybe replies shouldbe off list... :) Kate ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail tomajordomo@thekrib.comwith "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of themessage. Archives ofthis list can be found athttp://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/ ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please send mail to majordomo@thekrib.com with "Unsubscribe gsas-member" in the body of the message. Archives of this list can be found at http://lists.thekrib.com/gsas-member/
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