Nesaea pedicellata 'golden'

[150EH]

I picked up this plant at the February auction and it looked OK for a while but lately it's looking a little sad with poor color, the leaves a twisted slightly, and there are some brown patches on the leaves. It's in my 150 which is high light, CO2, and EI dosed with Fe but I read the APC plant finder and it stated it needed a moderately rich substrate and was slow to recover from nitrogen deficiency. This could be my problem because it's planted in Flourite but I keep the nitrates at 15 to 20 ppm, maybe a Osomocote gel cap would help it perk up, what do you think.

[jweis]

I picked up this plant at the February auction and it looked OK for a while but lately it's looking a little sad with poor color, the leaves a twisted slightly, and there are some brown patches on the leaves. It's in my 150 which is high light, CO2, and EI dosed with Fe but I read the APC plant finder and it stated it needed a moderately rich substrate and was slow to recover from nitrogen deficiency. This could be my problem because it's planted in Flourite but I keep the nitrates at 15 to 20 ppm, maybe a Osomocote gel cap would help it perk up, what do you think.

Tim, I think you bought that from me. About a year ago mine was looking bad too -- mainly algae. I took half of it out and put it in my emersed setup. In a couple of months it looked great and I put it back in the tank where it has done well in Aqua Soil.

[Cristy Keister]

I'm not sure about the rich substrate. It did just as well in quartz sand as in aquasoil. It did just as well without CO2 as with. The only requirement I know it has is very high light. Make sure it isn't even a little bit shaded in the brightest spot in your high light tank.

[Judi]

I recently gave up on that plant in frustration. Looked good for awhile, put out some new growth, then went downhill. I tried it in several different tanks. True, it didn't handle shading well, but oddly it seemed to do just as well in a lower light tank as in a high light tank.