Submersed Anubias hastifolia and frazeri?

[anewbie]

I'm just thinking OP would have some interest in some of these to use along with anubias to create more focal dynamic with the different textures and colours. It responds well to trimming and sends out more stems from where it's trimmed so in time it becomes bushy

My problem with your photo - and you can correct me if i am mistaken is that they don't show what he would see if he was actually looking at the aquarium. The colour enhancement are great for presentation but i think it mislead a little with regards to what he should expect when staring at the aquarium.

I think you should try to take a photo that represent what you actually see under neutral lighting that shows what you actually see when looking at the aquarium.

 

[CassCats]

My problem with your photo - and you can correct me if i am mistaken is that they don't show what he would see if he was actually looking at the aquarium. The colour enhancement are great for presentation but i think it mislead a little with regards to what he should expect when staring at the aquarium.

I think you should try to take a photo that represent what you actually see under neutral lighting that shows what you actually see when looking at the aquarium.

That tank light is as it is. It's a higher light tank than my other tanks, but it's the same brand light that I use on all of my tanks. Just set on a different brightness setting. It's a full spectrum LED light.

Things will always look different under different lighting, but that doesn't change the fact that those colors are what it shows under the LED lights. It looks different out of water than in water as well. Taken out it looks almost black leaved.

 

[Sgooosh]

That's a round leaved cultivar of kedagang. Yet another bred version of the plant. Imo you still can't go wrong with this plant. A good clump of it can make the other plants pop. But I'm not saying one or two plants but a good group of buce.


Need to do a rescape of this but all my buce are in my 10 gallon. The kedagang grows really fast--for buce.
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I'm just thinking OP would have some interest in some of these to use along with anubias to create more focal dynamic with the different textures and colours. It responds well to trimming and sends out more stems from where it's trimmed so in time it becomes bushy

definitely! those are very nice looking. do you have them mounted on rocks or driftwood?

 

[CassCats]

definitely! those are very nice looking. do you have them mounted on rocks or driftwood?

Driftwood! There's a whole arch of wood in there, though I may be trimming and adding buce to other places in the tank when I go do a rescape of it

 

[Sgooosh]

Driftwood! There's a whole arch of wood in there, though I may be trimming and adding buce to other places in the tank when I go do a rescape of it

hey! i just got some cheap buce at petsmart to give buce a go finally! it definitely looks vastly different in different lighting

 

[CassCats]

hey! i just got some cheap buce at petsmart to give buce a go finally! it definitely looks vastly different in different lightingView attachment 357682

Buce are fun, I love how they can reflect differently depending on their environment. Let it adapt and once it starts putting out a lot of growth, you can cut it and spread it around to form a dense patch.

This looks a bit like bucephalandra wavy green (called bucephalandra pymaea now) but once it's in better shape it may be easier to tell for sure. There's a ton, though this would be one of the most commonly found ones and one of the lower priced ones. It grows pretty steady, if it is wavy green.


(Jealous your petsmart has buce!)