45 plants . . .

At a glance, my tank looks green and lush, but when I look close I see symptoms of the plants lacking something- although I don't know, some of this could be shock from spending a day in a bucket where they got cold while I was moving the tank the other day? Crypt balansae has a lot of leaves drooping-

While just nearby the crypt wendtii looks great

Anubias congensis is starting to look a bit pale between the leaf veins- but not any of the barteri alongside it-

Anubias afzelli has some browning/yellowing tips and edges-

This other anubias on the driftwood has some puckered leaves, and lots of tears- it's where the angels tried to breed twice. The one that had come loose, I propped up again and placed a rock over the roots to hold down until it grabs the wood.

Lost a few more vallisneria. The few left do seem very green- but I don't know. That white stem bending over is the bit of crypt retrospiralis I put in here- looks like it is dying but maybe will spring  back from the rhizome piece. I'm not happy with that chunk of driftwood in the back that has bucephalandra on it. Would like another taller anubias or crypt on there, can't make up my mind. Hard to see- but I wedged on there a bit of bolbitis fern taken from the window tank- it's in the back, on the right. If that does well, I'll be happy to put a ton of bolbitis in here!

Condition of java fern still looks dubious-

Other plants appear totally fine- the buces all look nice, 'isabelle' has even sprouted a baby plant- I can't wait until it's time to cut off those rubber band and fishing line ties.

Little ridge of blue buces looks nice, too- all standing taller and I bet I could cut their ties

Last few months I have been dosing iron and potassium- I thought it might help- but java fern just keeps looking worse I don't know if what I did threw off the balance of nutrients it needed, or it can't keep up with the changes and will show better growth if I'm patient? Also maybe some of them are showing signs of lack because I took out all the other fishes- so there's less fish waste as nutrient. It's nice not to have as much mulm around the tank though! I wonder if I dimmed the light again- another sheet or two of window screening- would it slow the plant growth down enough they would do okay with the available nutrients. Especially now the tank gets lots of mild ambient light all day long.

Oh, and all my floaters died in here again. Every piece of frogbit is gone.