so, I think I'm going to try a clump of that white barteri, in a small resin "stump" pot...
I previously tucked the rhizomes into a hole in a hollow log, or under some structure but my last several I've placed in various natural looking resin pots... this makes them more serviceable, if they need to be removed for cleaning or tank maintenance, and seems to be working well...
this brings up cleaning of slow growing plants like anubias ( or other plants that get "attacked" by algae )... the 1st coffeefola I posted above, is in a hillstream tank, which gets a lot of light, but several of the fish clean this plant, hillstream loaches, panda garra, and flying foxes are always resting on it's leaves and polishing them... I used to have Oto's in my tank, with the congensis, and they did a good job cleaning the leaves, but the Oto's weren't long lived here... I have since added small pieces of tinted acrylic directly over several of the anubias, to filter the light, and that has greatly reduced the algae problems on the leaves ( if you look closely at the little picture included with the congensis, of the emergent leaves, you can see the tinted plastic over the plant ) I tried putting some plants directly in the current of filter outlets, but that didn't seem to make any difference... I've got another batch of Oto's coming, again to try...
so, how do you keep your anubias clean and healthy looking???
