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clownloachfan   Fish Addict Posts: 660 Kudos: 850 Votes: 115 Registered: 10-Oct-2003    | Hello all. About 2 months ago, i bout 2 new australian rainbows to add to the group of three i already had. The 2 new ones caught fungus and i started to treat the tank with meds. The new fish died and my java ferns shed all of their leaves  . A week after i started to filter the meds out, i noticed around 20 small globular red things on the rhizome of my one java fern. They dissappeared a week later. The fish are zebra danioes, australian rainbows, khuli loaches and otocinclus. What are the red things? |
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Fallout      Moderator Communications Specialist Posts: 6416 Kudos: 4053 Votes: 742 Registered: 29-Jul-2000 | Could have been new shoots of rhiozome attempting to grow, but then getting the kaibosh put on them from the meds, dying and getting soft. None of those fish i know of have red eggs. |
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Calilasseia  *Ultimate Fish Guru* Panda Funster Posts: 5496 Kudos: 2828 Votes: 731 Registered: 10-Feb-2003  | Got photos of this phenomenon? Only usually, when I hear people talking about round appendages on Java Ferns, they appear on the undersides of the leaves, and are in fact spore-bearing reproductive organs. My Java Ferns produce these regularly, along with enough biomass of new plants to allow me to be a supplier to my LFS! Last edited by Calilasseia at 16-Dec-2005 09:50  |
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fishyhelper288 Fish Guru Posts: 2161 Kudos: 1951 Votes: 137 Registered: 29-Feb-2004 | my java fern has lots of little plants on the undersides of their leaves, but they dont seem to grow fast, any reasons as to why?  |
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| clownloachfan Fish Addict Posts: 660 Kudos: 850 Votes: 115 Registered: 10-Oct-2003 | Well looks like my question is solved. Fishyhelper- what is your tank conditions? Light? Are they attatched to wood/rock? |
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sham Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3369 Kudos: 2782 Votes: 98 Registered: 21-Apr-2004  | Java fern doesn't grow fast. It's one of the slowest plants despite tank conditions but higher light and co2 would increase growth a little. |
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longhairedgit  Fish Guru Lord of the Beasts Posts: 2502 Kudos: 1778 Votes: 29 Registered: 21-Aug-2005 | A lot of rainbowfish eggs are quite orangey -red, they often stick to what they land on. You might have just got lucky.They could equally be reproductive buds on java. Can you post a pic? Last edited by longhairedgit at 16-Dec-2005 22:09 |
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| clownloachfan Fish Addict Posts: 660 Kudos: 850 Votes: 115 Registered: 10-Oct-2003 | Sorry, no digital camera. Plus, this happened a couple of months ago. Are rainbows egges smaller than a grain of salt? |
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