Hello everyone! So about three weeks ago I ordered more plants from Dustin and one of them was the XL red rubin sword he had on his site. Well throughout the past few weeks, ever since I received it, the leaves have been melting slowly til when I woke up this morning and did my usual inspection of my tank I noticed that the last leaf had melted off! I know it still has plenty of roots and of course all plants go through some sort of shock period when being put into a different tank than they are use to but I've never had a plant melt back this bad, not even my crypts. So my question is, will it start coming back or is it gone for good? I would hate it if I lost it for good cause not only are they beautiful plants but it wasn't that cheap either.

My setup consists of:
29 gallon w/ 3 20 watt 24" T8 bulbs (3500k and 2 6500k)
Miracle-Gro organic dirt substrate (1.25") capped off w/ small pea gravel (1.5")
pH holding steady at 6.8, nitrates 5 ppm, nitrites 0, ammonia 0, chlorine 0
dosing a small cap of Flourish Iron every 2 days and Flourish Excel every 3 days
Been cycled since April this year (2013)

Stock consists of 6 Buenos Aires tetras, 6 cherry barbs, 6 rainbows, 2 zebra danios, 2 golden dojo loaches, and a pleco.

Plants consists of dwarf sagg, cyrpt blassii, crypt usteriana, ludwigia repens, jungle val, anubias nana on a piece of driftwood, rotala rotundifolia, normal baby tears, red tiger lotus, and an amazon sword.

All other plants have been growing great and the fish are as healthy as can be so I'm not sure if it went into intense shock or what as even my other sword is growing with no problems. Any suggestions will help and if you need any more info I'll try to give it to you. Thank you in advance!

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Do u mean it has no leaves at all not even tiny new 1s??? Never seen a sword do that. Hopefully it bounces back.

It had three new leaves that grew within the first week I had it then they just up and melted with the rest of the leaves. Now all that is left are the remnants of the stems at the gravel and the roots are still intact. Like I said all my other plants are doing great except the sword.

Bump. Just an update, even though all of the leaves have melted away, I checked the bulb and root structure and it all looked good with long and strong roots so I just covered it back up and put a root tab under it for good measure so it might have a better jump start.

sweet man hopefully it bounces back man keep us posted

SWORDS ARE THE BEST> REALLY HOPE IT DOES!

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