Here's a tip or two for cleaning Anubias leaves off of algae. Since the plant is hardy and robust enough you might take it out of the tank (if possible) and dip into an Easy Carbo/water solution 1:5 for about two minutes. It doesn't hurt the plant at all and takes one or two weeks until you'll notice the results. Another suggestion for removing green algae immediately of plants being in the aquarium: you can brush the leaves by using a self made tiny tool consisting of a small stick (e.g. chinese chop sticks) onto which you clued an interdental tooth brush. This will help the leaves for better photosynthesis right away.
Lmao, what i do for this problem is just reach my hand in there and aggressively rub my thumb across the leaves back and forth. Ik they are verrrry thicc so yeah it doesnt do any damage haha
Top Guide! congratulations!!. I love Anubias and I have them in all my aquariums except in my Malawi aquariums (there are absolutely no aquatic plants there). In my River-style Biotope aquariums, and in the Nano Cubes with shrimp, I usually use small Anubias. basically the variants Anubia barteri var. Nana Mini and mini Pangolino. And in the "black water" Amazon style aquariums where I basically use only sand as a substrate, here I have Anubias barteri var. Compact, which is a not very large Anubias (just smaller than the classic Anubia barteri var. barteri, and more compact). But in your video I have seen some very interesting varieties of Anubias that have given me very good ideas. A very good video!! Greetings from Germany 👋🏻
Thank you very much! Yes, I love Anubias as well :) I'm planning to build a tank with only Anubias. Something like African biotope style - should be ineresting :)
@@AquascapingCube Shure! I have seen some large aquariums from the Malawi biotope with large alpine limestone rocks and the only aquatic plants being Anubias in various sizes and they are truly spectacular. I will be waiting impatiently for this video!
Excellent video. I appreciate the effort you have made in detailing this fantastic plant. I have anubius barteri in multiple aquariums from a rhizome that I originally acquired 25 years ago. I have a lot of it, so when I redo aquascapes there is often "shaded out" healthy rhizome that have lost their leaves. I cut these bare pieces off and place them into a small dimly lit aquarium where they grow new plantlets from the nodes of the rhizome. Once the plantlets are big enough I carefully remove them, glue to small stones and place them into my aquariums. It takes a long time for them to grow out so they are a great "free" source of tiny anubius for aquascapes. If you like smaller plants similar to anubius, I highly recommend schismatoglottis prietoi. I've found that it doesn't attach to hardscape as well as anubius, but it seems to be just as hardy and is somewhat faster growing.
I’m setting up a walstad style fishbowl and was planning on using anubias, but I heard that they don’t do well in tanks with no flow in the water column. I am curious as to what you think. Thanks for this video!
I never had any problems with no-flow tanks. Many of my builds don't have any filters and are doing just fine. Of course they are much easier to maintain when have less light, but otherwise - no issues for me :)
i'm planning to build a nano tank (30x30x30cm) with low tech plants (mainly anubia nana and microsorum pteropus). how much lighting would you recommend? i was thinking of a 8.4w led (~700lumens), is it too much? should i go for lower lighting, like a 3.5w (220lumens)?
For those plants it might be to much. I think that 3.5W is enough. And I would suggest to go with Microsorum pteropus Mini, because "normal" version might get to big ;)
I ❤ them; and am considering creating a small decorative nano tank with my left over stones and sand and anubias plants but not submerged in full tank water; I just don’t know how to position them and where in the tank if not going to add like half water?! Just a pond inside and covering the tank with foil and add the light and let it be beautiful
Great video...question...i have 3 broad leaf anubias and 2 of them are wedged in to driftwood, no glue or anything, and doing fine. Ive only had all 3 for about 2 weeks. Theres one that wont stay wedged in. How long does it take for the roots to dig in to the driftwood?
I really depends on the plant and your driftwood. If the wood is more porous - it will be quicker (~3 weeks?), with smooth piece it might take longer. But don't worry, it will happen eventually.
My Anubias might begin to emerse out of water I’m just not sure if the leaves will be okay, considering it’s rimless? (room temp 72-74) (A. Nana Thai., A. Barteri ‘Gold Coin’)
It all depends on how much it will be out of water. My Gold Coin has few leaves out of water and they are doing fine. Just be careful about the light - if it generates a lot of heat, it will dry the leaves. In general, lights that stay relatively cool, are much better for emersed plants.
Hi , I'm facing major rotting issue with anubias , can you guide in it pls, I don't hv algae issues much , as I'm using light in less duration , water parameters ph is close to 7.5 , 3 tanks I hv all faces similar issues
Yep, the rotting problem also hit me recently. And despite having kept Anubias in the past and knowing their requirements this time it went terrible. I suspect osmosis shock since I use soft water of around 200 microS/cm, low pH and due to using very large roots in my tank I have huge amounts of tannins and probably other acids in the water column. I suppose that was too big a difference for the plant to handle compared to where it was cultivated before. Can someone pls share his knowledge and experience as to why Anubias would be rotting away? Thank you.
Late comment but I have a question. Does the hardware you attach it to have to be natural products like rocks and wood. Or can you attach it to things like aquarium decorations?
Anubias is not attracting snails more than other plants. It can definitely happen that your tank can get infested with snails, but you can bring them with any kind of plant. You can check this video what to do: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bHZoUHNq4gE.html
This is not a problem! It's normal for them to get very long sometimes. They are looking to anchor themselves and look for nutrients. You can always trimm them a bit, if you don't like the looks :)
Dear Mateusz: I collected several species of anubias, over the past, ten years. I had them all attached to driftwood, in my, 120-gallon tank. I’m giving that tank away and discontinuing driftwood. So, I attached all, my anubias to rocks and put them in my, 75-gallon tank. Please have a look at the video I recently posted and let me know what you think. You can search RU-vid for this title, to view the video: Anubias Sandwich 11-8-23 Thank you for sharing your, interesting and informative video on this, fantastic family of aquatic plants. All my best, Sincerely, E. J. Brinegar
Hello. Yes it all should be fine. I use superglue all the time with a lot of plants, and they are doing great. No reason why this wouldn't work in you case!
