It looks like a jade of some sort, although I am no expert on identification so we will have to wait for one of the more experienced members to answer :)

Is that the pot/soil it came with? I think it would be important to see what kind of soil you have in there to determine if there is too much water retention.

The place you have it in also looks quite dark. Jades and succulents in general require generous amounts of sunlight every day so putting it directly in a sunny window might stop it from dropping so many leaves. That was one of my first mistakes with a jade I bought, it was kept in a darker corner and so it died within a few weeks.

Hopefully you can help it to become healthy again,

Claire

Looks like portulacaria and a graptosedum/ graptopetalum/ graptoveria, etc.

First culprit for leaf drop is poor soil condition-- a mix that is too water retentive and causing root rot.

Second culprit is too little light.

I wonder if the pot has drainage? If not, that is the main culprit.

I suspect that it's a combination of too much moisture, too little light, poor soil structure... And possibly lack of drainage.

I see that it's next to one of those 'lucky bamboos'. Succulents and bamboos do not belong in the same environmental conditions. If you absolutely want a plant in that location, I would suggest a low light tropical.

If you want to save the plant itself... At this point, you'll probably need to at least repot in a coarse mix (in a container with drainage) and provide much more light in a different location.

Thanks for the replies!

Yes the pot has drainage. Also I do not keep it in that location, I was just taking a picture of it there. I keep it under a flourescent lamp most of the day in a sunny room. Maybe I'll move it closer to a window though.

That is the original potting it came in. I was going to re-pot but the little paper said to repot in the spring and I got the succulent in December.

I usually water it once a week until I see water come out the bottom and then I let it dry up. I really have a feeling it's the soil and the potting. I think I'll repot it this week.

ive never bought a plant fertilizer before. What kind should I get? I saw so many types at Walmart.

also I realize how horrible those pictures were. I will retake some tomorrow.

Kacey

Do not fertilize your plants until they are re-potted in better mix and you know for sure the roots are healthy.

I've noticed that mixed succulent containers available on the market are usually very recently arranged (probably not longer than a week or two before distributed to the seller). The plants aren't rooted well in the container and they pull out and separate easily as small 1" and intact root plugs with very little root development. The problem is compounded by the heavy peat they use to fill the container- which will keep the plants alive for a limited duration but will not make it possible for the plant to succeed long term.

I recently bought a large mixed succulent container with about a dozen different plants from Home Depot because I was googly eyed with a particular bromeliad that was in the mix. I got it home and began deconstructing the planting. Every individual plant had its roots still in an intact peat plug with the overlying plastic mesh, roots tightly bound. They had also added over an inch of peat mix on top in order to hold everything down and in place, which had already began causing rot at the base of a very nice looking senecio blue chalk sticks and an echeveria. The fresh peat was fully saturated, the root plugs were bone dry.

It took a good while to remove the plastic mesh and clean the hydrophobic peat from the roots. I had to decapitate the senecio and echeveria to save it from rot and reroot the cuttings. But today everything is doing just fine and my repair time aside, not a bad deal for $20.

The mixed arrangements are attractive to the eye, but they tend to fail much more often and much more quickly than individual plants because of the small root plugs in large amounts of peat.

Good luck repotting! Keep an eye out for any beginning rot, and be sure to remove as much peat from the roots as possible. I use a gentler spray function ('sweep') on my hose end sprayer to rinse it away, but depending on how dry and compressed, you may need to soak the root clump for a few minutes to soften it for removal. A few drops of dish liquid (ie original Dawn, nothing with 'bleaching') per gallon of water (just until you see a couple bubbles on the surface) helps to eliminate hydrophobicity, and won't harm the plant.

Keep in mind that things may look a little worse for a week or so before it gets better- due to root disturbance. Don't let that discourage you.

Rina-

Yes I do suspect my jade died from over-watering as well. It was just that it had been kept in full sun at the place I bought it, and when I moved it indoors, into a dark corner, it began looking less healthy and losing leaves. This made me suspect it wasn't getting enough water, so I watered it more; and you can guess the rest of the story from there. It was a rookie mistake, I know much better now.

Claire, yes, it is easy to 'love them to death'. Wet feet are big - if not the biggest - enemy of succulents.