Anubias rot?

[AaronKWolfe]

I just recently got some anubias (Nana and Nana petite) and I've been noticing that it appears I have anubias rot going on in some of the plants, as well as a lot of leaves falling odd. I'm not sure what's causing this as I dose with fertilizer once a week ontop of having fish in the tank. Does anybody have any pointers or tips on what I can do?

 

[tlindsey]

I just recently got some anubias (Nana and Nana petite) and I've been noticing that it appears I have anubias rot going on in some of the plants, as well as a lot of leaves falling odd. I'm not sure what's causing this as I dose with fertilizer once a week ontop of having fish in the tank. Does anybody have any pointers or tips on what I can do?

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If any rhizome are good the plant should recover. Don't bury the rhizome.

 

[tlindsey]

Plants will go through various changes as you described do to a change of new environment.

 

[altums85]

U ordered online I assumed?

 

[AaronKWolfe]

U ordered online I assumed?

Nope, bought them in person

 

[AaronKWolfe]

If any rhizome are good the plant should recover. Don't bury the rhizome.

Rhizomes were never buried, I cut away the brown mushy parts, but the healthy rhizomes keep rotting away.

 

[tlindsey]

Rhizomes were never buried, I cut away the brown mushy parts, but the healthy rhizomes keep rotting away.

That's all I can come up with until others chime in check the Planted Tank forum.

 

[phreeflow]

Yeah, I once had a 65 stocked from top to bottom with different varieties of anubius..including giant clumps of anubias nana petite I grew out for years. I ended up ordering anubius frazeri and it must have had something because all my anubias rhizomes started rotting away. Kept cutting away bad parts but it wouldn’t stop until I was left with a very little.

Folks on Scape and Plantedtank forums said it was some sort of bacterial disease. Can’t remember but what I treated with, maybe erythromycin, but I ended up just tossing everything. I’d quarantine that plant if you have other anubias until you figure it out

 

[Exotic$4me]

Have you dipped them in a solution of hydrogen peroxide? When I started disinfecting my plants with it I made the mistake of leaving them in the solution for too long. The other solution is to take the plants out and put them in a tank/container with new water and see if the plants stop rotting. If not, follow the online suggestions of using hydron peroxide for a plant dip. Mind you, some plants with more delicate leaves must not be dipped as recommended but Anubias sp. should be alright. I hope this helps. Oh, another thing, plants are sensitive to salt.

 

[SingAlongWithTsing]

If the rhizome is squishy, oozing green, and smells like vomit you got some type of rot going on.

Think I fixed it or minimalized the damage a few years ago by coating an x-acto knife with hydrogen peroxide and cut off the affected area and a bit of the healthy part of the rhizome and sealed off the end with super glue (used gorilla glue gel type at the time).