How Are Your Anubias Tied Down?

[TammyLiz]

This might be a strange thread to start, but I'm hoping some of you will share your creative and attractive ways of attaching anubias. Mine are currently attached with cotton thread to the tops of small pieces of driftwood. But the rhizome stands up so high from the driftwood on the larger ones. How do you do it? And how does it look?

 

[stang1]

We have some attached to slate with gravel pushed around the sides of it. Looks good!

 

[TammyLiz]

Just to clarify do you mean that it is attached to the flat side of the slate, which you lay down flat, and cover with gravel so all you see is the rhizome?

 

[Kuhni]

I used an elastic band around the driftwood, so that it holds the rhizome behind it away from the eyes. I have a big piece of driftwood so this is possible.

 

[stang1]

Just to clarify do you mean that it is attached to the flat side of the slate, which you lay down flat, and cover with gravel so all you see is the rhizome?

Yes, that's exactly how we do it.

 

[PrettyDiscus]

I have mine buried in some sand. Its doing fine. Nice strong roots and leaves. I am also having new growth. I didnt know that it had to be attached to something. But mine seems to be fine in substrate.

 

[TammyLiz]

You can clip off the excess roots. Just don't take them all out and make sure there's enough left

EDIT: Ohh I just noticed it's a rhizome issue, not roots. DOH me! Do you think you can cut the part that's sticking out (they have leaves, I hope?)? Then tie them right next to the original plant so it still looks "thick".


EDIT2: On another note...tie them in such a way that the rhizome's not sticking out. Don't worry if the plant doesn't look upright, it will adjust itself and grow up towards the lightsource in a few weeks

Yeah, I'm not meaning to make a big deal about how bad mine looks. I'm sure once it gets some more leaves it will look better. But I noticed that not everyone attaches theirs in the same way and thought I'd look for new ideas. I really like stang1's way of doing it!

I have mine buried in some sand. Its doing fine. Nice strong roots and leaves. I am also having new growth. I didnt know that it had to be attached to something. But mine seems to be fine in substrate.

The reason you should tie them onto something is that the rhizome tends to rot if buried.