anubias, anubias, anubias...

[Magnum Man54 168]

the plants are definitely responding to it being spring, even though this coffeefola has no light from any window, a couple new leaves again this week… the other anubias in the basement tanks are only holding their own, but the hoyas are “springing” into action as well… over all this coffeefola has bushed out nicely, as a centerpiece plant potted in it’s stump pot..

 

[TwoTankAmin46]

I love anubias. But it has been almost 20 years since I have bought a new species. I do not even remember what species many of mine are. but may of them have grown to the surface of even my deeper tanks. When they do, I usually chop off the top 1/3 to 1/2 half and sell it. When I did my last vendor room in 2003 I had a number of huge anubias for sale.Mine were the largest sold in the vendor room even included by a couple of plant vendors.

Here is a pic of my 150 before it leaked and got replaced with a 125. All of the plants in the 150 are anubias.

Here is a pic of my in-wall 75. it has a few anubias as well.

Feel free to ID the species if you can because I not longer can do so except for the coffefolia. And of course the above plants just got bigger with time.

I cannot tell you why, but live plants thrive in my tanks. For almost 10 years I had a planted 50 which had pressurized CO2. I eventually gave it up as it was too much work. The plants grew so fast I was spending more time on that tank than on any 3 other tanks which were bigger and also were planted.

 

[Magnum Man54 168]

not a good picture but I have a cool water root tank, that has a few fish, but is highly shaded by vines, and is full of roots… the other day I spotted this anubias nana, that I placed here a year or more ago, after which the vines took over the tank… it seems to be thriving with no help from me… all the green in this picture is nana

 

[TwoTankAmin46]

I have a ton of anubias of all sizes and multiple varieties. I have long forgotten the names of some of them/

 

[Magnum Man54 168]

2 new leaves coming on my coffeefola…

 

[OMG_FL]

My emersed grown coffe

 

[anewbie]

One of my large bateri:

And this thing i have no clue what it is - but it is around 14 inches long now:

 

[Magnum Man54 168]

picked up 3 anubias nana’s “pinto” today, one listed as a pinto super white…

2 look like this….

one looks like this…

they arrived a week before my stump pots, on a slow boat from China, so they’ll stay in the pots for a week… 2 ove them sitting in my 3 season porch tank…

 

[GO Yes ants ant ad fishy]

Love how good your guys aubias is looking still trying mine too start regrowing in my 10 gal

 

[Magnum Man54 168]

this tank is hard to get good pictures, because of the dark water, and being highly shaded, and in a group of tanks that this dark tank picks up reflections from the other tanks…

this is a anubias congensis, it has been pictured in the thread above… however over the years, this one has gone totally emergent ( this in a 24 inch deep tank ) I gave another anubias congensis, that has not grown even one emergent leaf, yet this one no longer messes with any folage that stays submerged… this tank is built in, so the tops of the plants above the tank, are not generally viewable , so I have this massive root base, and long stems heading to the surface… it may even be flowering, up where I can’t view it…

this is that plant today…