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He is absolutely right about everything he said. I planted my tank with new substrate for planting the Java fern was the biggest plant and it became huge a green and beautiful. As soon as the moss and Montecarlo carpet took off the Java fern starved out even when I added fertilizer it was almost like to late for it to make a come back and the Monte Carlo and mosses where exploding, slower growing plant struggle against faster growing specially if you don’t ample amount of frets and CO2 pairing plants properly just because you want it all doesn’t mean you should

Cool video. This is actually my first time getting java ferns 3 years into the hobby despite it being one of the beginner plants.

I'm gonna try an all in one. Thank you for the tip.

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Came for the advice, stayed for that lovely tank 😊

I just received my plant Anubias and Java Fern order. The plants look good! I will post on your website too

Well that sums up my issues plant is beginning to brown 2 weeks in I need a fertilizer I definitely thought the food and fish waste would do it

I have always had Java fern. in some tanks it does great and in others.. not so much. I usually move them around.

I use easy green liquid feet for my black forest java fern. It still has brown spots but those are just diatoms that my nerite snails haven't eaten yet. I've got 2 microsorum pteropus coming on Monday which I'm also gluing to some slate.

I'm about 9 months into my aquarium endeavor. When I started, I planted 3 or 4 java fern. They grew and reproduced like crazy. I just pop the new plants off and stick 'em in the substrate. Now I have java fern coming out my wazoo in a 10, 20 and a 30 gallon tank. All from the first 3 or 4 plants I started with. I know nothing, but I think using active substrate really helps a lot. You almost can't not grow the stuff.

I've just recently started my 10 gal tank a couple weeks ago. I put the last of my new plants in this past week. Unfortunately everything is kind of starting to get brown spots, and while installing my red tiger lotus, it came detached from the bulb. I read online that it would survive if I planted the roots in the substrate, not too deep. But, so far they've pretty much completely turned brown and are melting away. As for my Java fern, I have them planted in the substrate, but its really loose substrate, so the roots should be able to move freely, but they also have brown spots. I'm in the middle of my fishless cycle, so there is tons of nutrients in there. I dose twice a week with easy green all in one, (20 drops each dose). I've also put about 6 root tabs into the substrate, but it's been a couple weeks since I did the root tabs. I've added new substrate on top of the old substrate since then, so I'm not sure how much the root tabs are doing now. Any ideas?

I have and do struggel with java fern, however java fern and Anubis is the only plants that dont melt away within 1 month! we have extremely hard water i dont know if that contributes. I do use a ferteliser and i do small water changes only so the tanins from driftwood and leaves can help soften the water a little for the sake of the fish

Someone just gave me a butload for my 75 and now I need to make sure I can keep it nice

I was actually googling how to stop java fern touching the lights and burning / turning brown.

I've struggled for years with this plant. I am getting some better results now by giving them more light than before and ferts. Still not as great as you see lots of people effortlessly grow it. I think it your water is too hard and too high in ph, that doesn't help too.I've also heard potassium is a definite requirement which I dose alongside an all in one fertiliser, but to say it's an easy plant...........i have not found.

Nice topic! I started my tank with Java and some Crypts. I spend a good amount of my budge on it, so there where plenty. I used a all-in-one fertilizer, and indeed i still get brown leaves. Started to add Potassium, as i saw it wasn't part of the all-in-one, didn't help much. Using test strips to test, but maybe i need to get myself a separate nitrate test kit for more precision/data?

Some of my java fern have brown spots. The longest leaf has a plantlet. It also has a little leave growing through the gravel. My sword outer leaves have some light browning and transparency. They're both in gravel. Also have one beta in the same tank. What should I do in order to help my aquarium. Root tabs maybe?? Idk. Thanks

I am struggling with my Ferns. They are turning brown, and i'm unsure why as I use root tabs, Liquid fert, and a daily dose of Interpret Plant food, and Co2 Cannisters. I have turned the lighting period down to max 8 hours a day, but yet i still struggle to get them to look lushous green. As you said though it oculd be my other plants taking up the nutrients.. so then I add more.. but then the algae takes over so I have to do a water change. Can't win lol.

Is api leaf zone good?

I heard that aquarium plant fertilizer is hard on snails. Any remedy to that? just don't keep them both in the same tank?

I’m currently struggling a little with java fern sp petite. I’ve got a 'Father Fish' kind of setup with an inert substrate. Basically a regular betta tank with a biodiverse food web, microorganisms, decaying leaves, semi fine deep gravel, and water column feeding plants only (floaters, different anubias sp, java moss, and java fern petite). No Ferts, no Co2, no water conditioning. Just an air pump, a heater, and light. Everything in there is doing great, except for the java fern. Any thoughts? Help is much appreciated!

I have an axolotl, and they’re sensitive to nitrate and i Have to keep it low, which is why I’m scared to use fertilizers. I don’t know what to do about that because I’m worried about my fish.

I think you just made me figure out why my ferns are growing but don’t look great. The tanks are also full of crypts that are spreading all over and lots of rotala and floaters. I’m guessing the rotala and especially the floaters are sucking up all the nutrients really quick before the fern gets a chance to utilize them.

Say your java fern is getting more and bigger brown spots by the week... Is it feasible to cut all the leaves off and down to the stem in hopes it will start from almost zero and leaf again?

What is the cranberry/peanut looking substrate in your emersed java fern growout system ? thanks

Can you suggest some homemade fertilizer for such plants? (Anubias, Java fern, moss)

I believe most new hobbiests would have more success with Java fern if they knew how to plant it correctly. Few KZfaq channels advise on how to properly prepare Java fern for 'planting', critical to success. It was not mentioned here either.

I've had java fern for six months. The leaves have slowly turned mostly brown/black and there's been no new growth. After adding fertiliser how long before an improvement is seen? I bought some fertiliser today but it is only trace elements. However, I've also added more fish so nitrates may well increase...

Seachem flourish doesn’t have that much nitrogen. So you might overdose everything else before reaching 30-40ppm of nitrogen.

Can I grow java fern in a bare bottom tank ?

Also that is why a Java fern will do in a way slow but better in a low tech environment, you will not get a bunch of leaf but the competition that usually goes crazy in a high tech is not doing good so you have a more event environment as soon as you switch up and go high tech all of the sudden all those other plants will take up all those nutrients and you there wondering hey the Java fern was doing good before why did it start dying if everything is started doing better

I guess this is a stupid question. When you add fertilizer are you in fact adding Nitrate? That’s why I do water changes , to LOWER nitrate. Couldn’t you just do fewer water changes?

Are those cardinal neons?

Java Fern and Anubias love extra potassium.

Potassium. Java fern needs lots and lots of potassium. Dose it! I can guarantee anyone that your JF will not only recover any blackened areas on it's leaves but if kept in a high-tech aquarium? It will pearl intensely when given a lot of potassium. Same goes for emersed cultivation; I make it a point to mist liquid potassium fertilizers seperately, alongside my all-in-one fert.

You look like my son's baseball coach

When I add fertilizer, I get a lot algae and plants still look like shit.