Anubias Species!

[theshadowinc]

Anubias one of the most seen in the hobby today in aqaurims people are growing! Usually many get them to flower sumerged in there tanks. Ever since I baught my first one which at the time I took the wife really knowledgable about plants, and at first I was shy about getting it cause most are actualy bog plants but with the kind explanation from my wife I actually perchased a Anubias Coffeefolia. Knowing with my wife and her expertise she told me it can't not be planted in soil better it tie to a peice of drift wood! So I followed her advice and I get a new leaf every week from it woot!

Well I have been up so some good I guess you could say and did some research on all the different ones there are out there in the world! Not only that I was looking at probogation and how to reproduce the plants mind you I havn't tried any of these methods but read that its done by clipping a leaf off and letting float till roots start then tieing it down, another method is from deviding the plant into 2 plants, last one was probogation from a seed.

Compiled below are all the scientific names I have found searching the web to see what would be a very rare one to see in a aquarium!

anubias afzelli
anubias afzelli var. angustifolia
anubias afzelli ver. congensis
anubias afzelli ver. ellipticus
anubias afzelli ver. lanceolata (Devils Tongue)
anubias afzelli ver. rotundifolia
anubias afzelli ver. rubescens
anubias bangkok
anubias barteri
anubias barteri ver. angustifollia
anubias barteri var. borteri
anubias barteri var. caladifolia
anubias barteri var. glabra
anubias barteri var. marble
anubias barteri var. nana
anubias barteri var. nana "eyes"
anubias barteri var. nana "gold"
anubias barteri var. nana "marble leaf"
anubias barteri var. nana "minima"
anubias barteri var. nana "petite"
anubias barteri var. nana "stardust"
anubias barteri var. nana "variegata"
anubias barteri var. nana "wrinkled leaf"
anubias barteri var. veriegated
anubias caladifolia
anubias cameroon
anubias coffeefolia
anubias congo
anubias frazeri
anubias garbon
anubias gigantea
anubias gilletii
anubias gracilis
anubias hastifolia
anubias heteroclita
anubias heterophylla
anubias heterophylla ver. undulatus latifolia
anubias heterophylla ver. angustifolia
anubias heterophylla ver. spathulata
anubias heterophylla ver. pectinatus
anubias kumbaensis
anubias nancon
anubias nangii
anubias narrow leaf
anubias pynaertii
anubias rigidus
anubias round leaf
anubias stardust
anubias yellow heart

Figured I would share this with everyone. Makes it easier on the looking up the differences. Copy the science name to google and search

Enjoy
TheShadowInc

 

[SuperColey1]

The reason most in the LFS look so healthy is they are grown emersed.

Take a piece of rhizome.

Get a small plant pot (with holes in it.) Fill it with some compost/sand mix and place it in a tray propogater (without holes in it.)

Fill the tray with water up to the same level as the compost in the pot is.

Put the propogater lid on.

Leave it on the windowsill. add a bit of standard garden 'bay bio' or similar weekly.

3-4 weeks later you will see it has grown faster than in the tank and because it isn't submersed there will be no algae issues, no CO2 issues etc.

You can do this with many of our plants. Anubias, Ferns, Crypts are great to do this way because they are slower growing in the aquarium but you can do stem plants as well and build yourself up a stock of plants for 'the next scape'

A lot of the top scapers have an inventory if you like where they have stocks of plants that they use in 1 scape and then store if not used in the next etc

AC

 

[theshadowinc]

The reason most in the LFS look so healthy is they are grown emersed.

You can do this with many of our plants. Anubias, Ferns, Crypts are great to do this way because they are slower growing in the aquarium but you can do stem plants as well and build yourself up a stock of plants for 'the next scape'

AC

Hmm didn't know you could do that with crypts, would be nice to get my Luence going rather quick as I really do want alot of this stuff to use as a carpet in my aquarium.

As for this little trick I am going to have to try it now that you said that to see how it works out!

Will have to get you an update on it hehe