Planting Anubias

[AndyTaylor]

I found a beautiful specimen of this plant in my LFS yesterday and couldn't resist buying it.....
I've found this info on it:

Anubias barteri
Anubias barteri
Family: Araceae
Region: Southeast Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea

Care
Easy to grow low light plant. Do not put the rhizome in the substrate when planting. As with all Anubias sp. it is prone to algae due to slow growth, and is usually left alone by herbivorous fish. Propagation by rhizome splitting.

I would like it to grow on my bogwood and i found a handy crevice to wedge it in.... the roots are just hanging free in the water......will it grow like this?
Alternatively, will it grow on the tank bottom as long as the rhizome is above the gravel?

 

[jimbooo]

yes and yes.

just strap it to the wood and in about 3 months the roots will have found something to grab onto. if planting on the bottom trap the rhizome between 2 rocks and push the roots down into the gravel.

lovely plant i have it in my 50G cube.

 

[soritan]

Heck, my anubias grabbed the nearest piece of bogwood in about 2 days. *laugh* so it might not even take 3 months. Mine seem to have very active little roots, though, they're feeling all over the place.

 

[BLASK]

sorry to bug in, but i was wondering if that blant variety will also grab hold on rock? I have this crater rock in my tank and will the roots stick to it? It has tons of crevices.

 

[AndyTaylor]

Ok cool....that's what i wanted to hear.....I'm not sure where to place it so it's good to have options. It was too nice a plant to leave in the shop!
It's up quite high in the tank at the moment under 3.2 WPG, i'm hoping that i'll get loads of small leaves rather than the normal big ones... Bit concerned about the algae issues but we'll see.
BLASK, as far as i know, it should be just as happy growing on rock as on wood but maybe someone can confirm this for you?

 

[leafs]

It will attach to rock also. I have mine growing on a piece of jagged slate and the roots are wrapping itself around it. I don't think I could even take it off now if I wanted. Jimbooo, I thought that the roots weren't suppose to be buried? Will they rot if buried?

 

[jimbooo]

you cant bury the rhiozome (the horizontal thick root) you can bury the small roots that grow off it though. i have one anubias nana in my 40G trapped between 2 rock but the roots grow down into the gravel

not the best pic but you can get the idea (right side of pic)

 

[zig]

Andy just dont put it in direct light or you "will" have algae issues with it, namely spot algae, it can really ruin the look of the plant and you wont get rid of it until new leaves grow, a nice shady spot under some faster growing plant maybe or just somewhere out of the full blast of 3.2 WPG.

Either wood or rock is good, although i have grown this with just the rhizome above the substrate.

 

[AndyTaylor]

Yeah, i was doing some reading just there and i'm going to have to move it to somewhere shadier. Water change time this evening so i'll be moving stuff anyway. Pity, it looks good where it is!

 

[jimbooo]

oh yeah i forgot to say that.

here's what happens in direct strong light

sorry i like pictures

 

[AndyTaylor]

I dunno, mate....that looks quite nice, IMO! Kind like a houseplant I have! How come the leaves on yours are so much lighter green than mine?

 

[jimbooo]

thats anubias nana, same family but smaller brighter leaves.

i have a barti in my cube. it's just flowered and looks great. The leaves are much darker, kind of dark olive green and bigger than the Nana. pics are on my sim card still, will upload to the cube journal in a few days.

 

[AndyTaylor]

wrong thread, sorry all . (any mods, feel free to delete)

 

[jimbooo]

anubias barti as per previous post

sorry it's dark more pics in my 50G journal