I think I need a Panda Garra, in each tank to keep an anubias "long term"....

[Magnum Man]

it's looking like to keep anubias long term... my oldest, has been in a tank over 2 years, and originally Oto's were cleaning the slowly growing plant, but the plant outlasted the couple Oto's... I've come to like that family of plant, with many varieties, spread out between most of my tanks...
I have a nice Coffeefola, one of my newest anubias, but it seems to be doing well, in my Hillstream tank, I think part of why it's doing so well, is the pandas take turns polishing the leaves... I expect no long term accumulation of mulm or algae, as they appear to be diligent gardeners...
even though I like my tanks to appear mostly "regional", I'm temped to add a few pandas to each tank, containing anubias... the Garras are highly entertaining, and don't bother even the smallest of fish, or shrimps and seem to really take good care of my anubias...

 

[Velvetgun]

I find them aesthetically and character-wise very interesting, but do they need a lot of current like a stream?

 

[Magnum Man]

to an extent, all my tanks ( except the 10 gallon shrimp breeding tanks ) are all "river" tanks, so there is current flowing across all my anubias plants, yet my oldest, is still starting to get an accumulation on it's older leaves... I've not done the research, if they will thrive in the tropical temperatures... my current population are in my Hillstream tank, which is cooler...

the Oto's were doing a great job, on cleaning it before, they just don't seem to live more than a couple years, for me, and I feel guilty, buying and rebuying fish, that I can't get to live more than a couple years...

 

[Velvetgun]

If you are interested, this is what you can find on a very complete site in Italy

Garra flavatra | Acquariofilia Consapevole

Una delle più belle specie di Garra, comprata spesso come mangia-alghe, anche se non lo è, è una specie onnivora.

acquariofiliaconsapevole.it

 

[Magnum Man]

at 1st look, appears their temp range goes to 82 degrees, and I don't run any of my tanks over 80, most are in the upper 70's, so I might try adding a few to the tank with the oldest plant, as an experiment

 

[Magnum Man]

Mrs. loves them, so she would be happy to find them in more tanks

 

[EmmaS]

at 1st look, appears their temp range goes to 82 degrees, and I don't run any of my tanks over 80, so I might try adding a few to the tank with the oldest plant, as an expirement

Higher temps less oxygen I believe. I have never kept them but that temp long term won't be good for them. Seriously fish has them top end 27c. I suspect 22-25 is the sweet spot.

 

[Magnum Man]

all my main tanks ( river ) are "over filtered", and have large air stones, thus are highly oxygenated...

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I've found that they enjoy current, but don't really need it. They live in semi-intermittent, monsoon-fed streams in nature, subject to extreme fluctuations in temperature, flow, and hardness, so they seem to be really adaptable. For long-term, they're probably happiest in tanks on the cool side with a lot of flow. But I kept some for many years in a tropical tank with very little flow, and they thrived.