Just tie it or super glue to driftwood or a rock. One of the most maintenance free plants you can get. Pretty tough too!Okay not a clue what to do with this thing...View attachment 7184Bought a live plant for the first time.
If I manage to keep it alive...Just tie it or super glue to driftwood or a rock. One of the most maintenance free plants you can get. Pretty tough too!
Just tie it or super glue to driftwood or a rock. One of the most maintenance free plants you can get. Pretty tough too!
If I manage to keep it alive...
Those are impressive Anubias! How old are they and do you prune?True enough! I use super-glue for all my Anubias, but be sure to get the super-glue gel, otherwise you'll end up gluing the plant to your fingers!
I worried about the same thing when I first decided to try to grow Anubias in pH9 water, but now look at them! Super easy. My only issue is keeping algae off them, so I have SAE's.
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Those are impressive Anubias! How old are they and do you prune?
They are just over a year old. The trick, for me at least, has been to start out with really healthy plants, and all of these came from the Aquarium Plants Factory in CA. I do prune them periodically as the lower leaves start to turn yellow. The pic posted above was taken last summer, and since then the plants have grown quite a bit, as shown below-
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Two of the plants are now approaching the water surface, and I have no idea what to do about this, so any advice from the plant experts out there would be appreciated. Roy, are you listening? I probably should have tethered the rhizomes horizontally, but I do love the mass of roots they sent towards the substrate when mounted vertically.
Okay not a clue what to do with this thing...View attachment 7184Bought a live plant for the first time.
...You can prune the rhizomes...
Will that work if one half of the rhizome has no leaves? That is, will a leaf-lees rhizome regenerate leaves?
Will that work if one half of the rhizome has no leaves? That is, will a leaf-lees rhizome regenerate leaves?
Yes! Leafless rhizomes will grow leaves. It can take a month thoughI don't know, maybe. You will just have to decide who goes on the sacrificial altar of rhizome splitting
Yes, that's what I would have thought; it wouldn't make much sense biologically otherwise. I think I'll try it on a small scale and let you know what happens.Yes! Leafless rhizomes will grow leaves. It can take a month though