I can see the culprit in the background in the first photo ;-) woof woof

A tree-climbing Dobie? Looks like contact wounds, like maybe a bird running into it in flight.

You don't have squirrels there? They certainly can do this sort of damage or more with Tillandsias in my trees here in northern California. Very occasionally birds will also damage my plants. In Mexico, I would imagine there are many more climbing creatures, (maybe even snakes), that could do physical damage like this.

thank you guys. this plant is out of doggie reach actually. there are no squirrels around, nor snakes.

Rats (RIP) used to munch on duratii and xerographica (ouch) but was able to isolate this hybrid but it still getting the teared up leaves, so I thought of a phisiological problem (like to much water at once, or intense heat or something like that) but you all agree on contact wounds (perhaps birds).

it´s a nice plant since it pushed out four offsets (only three are visible in the picture, though). hope they stop getting this thing and have a nice grown clump.

rothii finally pushed out one flower which is about to open. will take a picture when it finally does.

cheerios and thanks everyone.

Too much water can sometimes make the leaves brittle and more prone to this kind of breakage. Overfertilizing can do that too. I don't know much about this Tillandsia but is 3 times a week too much water, Gonzer?

Lisa, sometimes yes, sometimes no, depending on the humidity. Patusho's plant looks pretty good. The first sign of overwatering would be more of the green epidermal layer showing through. There are plenty of trichomes evident on his plant plus the fact that Eric K has thicker than normal leaves.

Darn,all pics removed or deleted. Coatamundee?(tropical Mexico remember?)Parrots? Iguana's?.problems i wish we had. Just the'coons,skunks,and 'possums,squirrels. Same old quartet. And Norway rodents.That last is the only one legal to eliminate.(or would want too).

it´s dry tropics here, stan, so no coaties around. there are only parrots and my backyard use to be home of almost a dozen iguanas but doggie took care of them (grrr). I did rescue some iguanas and released them near a lagoon, though. Iguanas are protected in here and there´s a iguana breeding program also (and many are released into the local golf course!.

here are the pix again, stan. there are no outdoors pictures in here, though. LOL

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what´s wrong with my plant?!.
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