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Recently, I forgot to change the water in my ten gal planted, due to beginning of school errands to run. The driftwood in my tank is notorious for putting out tannis, but I do daily 10% water changes, so I'm not usually too worried about it. But I noticed today that everything was in pretty bad shape--the java ferns that I had bought about a week ago had began to show brown blotches on them and the vals looked particularly bad; torn and brown on the edges. When your vals are going bad, you kmnow there's SOMETHING wrong. I was wondering if the buildup of tannis couldve caused this, or maybe something else. The only thing that seems to be doing okay is my bacopa which looks fulkl and green per usual. HELP!

Tannis souldnt discolor any plants, I have a 29 gallon planted tank with a few picecs of wood that releace tannis and i let it because I think it looks more natural, but the plants arent ever affected, so I dont think that would be the cause.

-topher