The Crazy Little Trick That Makes Anubias Plants Grow Faster & Thicker. How to Split & Propagate.
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This works. I have been doing this once a year to my many Anubias plants. It really does stimulate new growth. However, if you leave them too long they can be very tricky to remove from where they are growing (especially on dragon stone) So try and make sure you do it at least once per year. If you ever wondered why your Anubias isn't flowering give this a try. Because it also stimulates flowering in mature plants.
Very good point! Thank you
One plant @100dollar equipments.😢
Mine grow so slow i think its fake
Yeah...they can be ridiculous
Hahahhaha man tell me about it
😂
😂 🤣 same
That happened to my plants when the lighting and nutrients were a bit off. My light was just a typical bulb and the nitrates were super low. After moving them into a tank with an aquarium light and some nutrients it grew a new leaf like once every 1-2 weeks! I wouldn't be surprised if they go into a sort of hibernation state where they don't grow/die under subpar conditions
I’m doing this to all my nana petites tonight. I already split them, but checking the leaves and trimming the roots is new knowledge to me. Thanks!
Hey, it's been a year. How did it go?
3yr update???
I love my anubias plants, I really like how cutting a little divot will encourage new growth. I might have to try that some day
Fantastic video. I really like this style of video showing detailed trimming. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
Your... instructional? Expose’s? Tutorials are always so detailed... I really appreciate it man... I love soaking up details... it makes me thank that I’ll be more confident when I get around to doing the task myself... well done man.
Glad I can help out a bit. Thanks for watching, buddy. Cheers.
i have two heavy yet new planted aquariums (3 months, 20 gal is alot of anubias ) this clipping video helped out thanks bro!!!
Very glad to hear it! Thanks for watching 👀
Great lesson on this plant. Love this plant.🐟🌿😊👍
I cut a very small node off from anubias dragon claw by accident. It's around 3mm without root or leaf and I just threw it into my nano tank without paying much attention. After a month, it started growing leaves and roots and became a new plant on itself. Anubias and buce propagation can be really crazy.
Haha yep. Just disturb cell undifferentiated nodes
Awesome video! Thank you! I have some already but I have an awesome piece of driftwood that I'm going to use in my next build so I just ordered five more because it's a sizeable piece shaped like a tree so I'm going to use ANP to make it look more like a real tree.
Very cool!
Id like to promote anchoring them to a piece of botanical- instead of a rock or using an inert weight. My go to is cactus wood, with black cable zip ties. As the wood is broken down in the tank- it acts as a root tab. I’ve had a noticeable acceleration in growth after switching to this method for rhizome type plants.
Oh very smart!
As always, right to the point woth no B.S. attached. Always enjoy your videos.
Another great informative video! Truly, your vast range of knowledge is amazing! Thank you❤🇨🇦
Aww shucks. Thanks for the kind words.
Anubias and buce are my favorite aquatic plants.
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THANKS FOR THE MUCH NEEDED ADVISE !!
Of course. Just glad I could be of any help. Take care!
Ohhh yaaa needed this video!! I always love them to death.
The video I didnt even know I was waiting for, thank you from across the Juan DeFuca Strait in Victoria
You are most welcome, my friend! And hello from across the Salish Sea :)
Very informative video, just getting back into the hobby
Great video Alexander! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain how you propagate and grow anubias! This was really helpful and very thorough! I really appreciated it greatly! I hope you have a blessed weekend 👍🌿🐟🌱🙏
You are most welcome, my friend! And I wish you the same, right back at yuh :)
This was great info Alex! And I really enjoyed going back and reading the comments from others! So many great tips and questions! Your knowledge made for Great conversation and education 👍😁🌱🤗🙏🙏
Very useful. Thanks Alexander.
You're welcome!
What is a proper way to dip new plants for introduction to an established tank? I am fortunate to have found you. Your style is impeccable
I’ve just come across this channel, love the info, 👍 great tips. 👍🏴
I’ve subbed. 👍
So glad to hear that! Please feel free to ask any questions or contribute any knowledge to the community here. Welcome!
Thanks for the information!!
Thanks for tuning in
Wow nice amazing plants. I like anubias.
Thanks. Yes, anubias is a great, versatile plant for sure!
Thank you! I have Anubis B. that has grown gigantic and I didn't know what to do about it!
Good information on this Video. Thanks you.
No problem, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video 👍
I love this one, Alexander. Thanks for shaing about the Anubias. I got some thinking that they would grow up firvmy Betta to sit on and/or under. Not these lil ones. lol
Thanks about the tips on propagating these lil ones.
Best of luck!
Good information thanks for sharing
My pleasure
Thumb's Up. Salute.
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I love anubias. They grew like crazy for a couple of years and now they seem to shrink over time. One of the problems is black beard algae. I have cut back on lighting and am using CO2 to try to reverse this trend in one tank. I have also set up a "anubias farm" where I grow them emerged (plastic tote, miracle Gro soil, and grow light), and plan on returning them to my aquariums once they become larger and healthier. I plan on rotating anubias through the "farm" to keep them robust. I am a biologist too and have tried everything to get them to grow like they did for a while while immersed. The question I have is, what pH is your water at? I am concerned that Indianapolis water, pH at about8.2, will not allow me to have beautiful immeresed anubias plants.
Yeah, so I grow at 6.8 or so 7.... tds 150 or less...my tap is 20 to 30tds. But I've seen anubias thrive in 8.0 water also though.... flow seems to be needed much more in that condition though
Super helpful video :). I always get so nervous and hesitant when cutting it, worried I’m gonna cut it wrong 😳
Cutting usually helps....but it feels so wrong heh
You’ll be alright. Just use a clean SHARP blade and make one cut in one motion, don’t saw. A new clean razor blade works best because it will provide the cleanest cut. A clean cut is key to avoid rhizome rot.
Man I love nana Petite Bonsi wish it grew faster but I was so glad I found similar info about a year ago when they when through a crazy growth spurt ( at its peek for about a month it was putting out a leaf or two a week).
Nice! That's really fast
@@Fishtory yeah I was blown away cause it went through a period of about 9 months where they didn’t do anything at all. But I still need to fine tune my care for them cause I would love a more consistent growth. Mine usually grow in cycles a few months then it might put out a few leaves. So a full month and a bit ( grew for about another 2 or so weeks like that after cutting) of getting a few leaves a week was exciting, lol the thoughts of propagating a bunch of these from the original 5 I started with until everything is covered is a long term dream.
Good show
Why have you not your anubias to something? Can attached-anubias still be trimmed with this method? Can anubias be kept in a non-heated tank (i stay in a warmer climate)?
Great video Alexander. I have many types of Anubis but have a problem with green spot algae growing on them because they are so slow growing. Any thoughts on how to remedy this?
Honestly, picking the leaf after several months, and keeping them out of the light a bit more- OR flow, and a good water change regime. flow can slow that growth.
Thanks for share
Why certainly. Thanks for tuning in
Great video
Very cool! I'll have to try this. Does it work with Bucephalandra too?
Pretty much, yes
This is brilliant, I was looking for slow growing plants t put into my bottle aquariums.
Anubias petite nana, anubias nana, anubias gold coin, A. coffeefolia anubias pinto nana, and snow white or verigated anubias are all great choices!
I bought 4 anubias plants from Petco, 2 rotted right away. But the other two have grown very nicely for me. One is even starting to flower under water!
That's great. Score
I find cutting all the leaves and roots, just leaving rhizomes near air/waterflow, to be the best way to acclimate a new anubias.
They freaked out and started producing new leaves and roots while theit immune seems to get boosted.
This technique seems to be able to combat the dreaded anubias rhizome rot disease.
Does anyone know how smaller farms and people that have like basement propagation tanks for plant resell grow their Anubias quick enough for steady propagation to have constant stock for sale? I have always wondered this because the only steady supply of anubias I can understand is tc cups of it that are sold.
They grow it above ground. However the vast majority import most of it from huge outdoor concrete ponds in southeast Asia and Africa (increasingly Israel also)
question for you, great fan here, everytime i trim my ammanlia gracilis they dont grow back and the tip turns black like rotting and no other shoots coming why is that, I dose fertilizers co2 and nutrient substrate also high light
Hey thanks for watching. Ammania Gracillis is a plant with DIFFERENTIATED nodes unlike many that have undifferentiated cell clusters. So the trick is to cut it on the side branch shoots, with super sharp scissors or razor, then plant that in the substrate, or float the branches at the top in the co2 cloud and hilight, until you get a taproot or nurse roots starting to appear...then plant it (this works 50/50...but if you have some roots going, your success rate will go up a ton.
Be careful when handling the freshly cut stems. I had to go to the ER last time I split mine up due to anaphylactic shock. Has anyone had a similar experience?
Oh whoa! No, but I am very allergic to many other things (blood worms, limnophila, shellfish etc). Thank you for this interesting cautionary tale.
@@Fishtory Yeah it was pretty bad. My eyes were nearly swollen shut and I couldn't breathe very well. I guess it's a pretty uncommon allergy because anubias are so common in the hobby. I have zero other allergies too.
Thanks for the reply btw, I'm a huge fan of your channel.
wow, i am in the medical field, good to know!
Wow didn't even know that was a thing.
hi i have losts of anubias some rare but my abubias nana gold as got realy long roots nealy going in to the substrate would you cut the roots back or would you just leave them cheers
It probably thin them out a little trimming long skinny ones. But it's likely a sign that adding more liquid fertilizers could help their growth speed
Thoughts on recovering from melt?
Just refreshed my set up, pulled the plants off the logs... They snapped too... Now in the new set up I'm getting leaf melt.
Look up my video on "Why are my plants melting?!"
I buy my anubias is like 3 inch, 3 month with natural sun light and fertiliser now it almost 7 and the leafs is big green health. Now I think its time to make more😙
Definitely a good time to consider propagation!
My little anubas is mounted on a rock in a clear glass Mason jar, in distilled water. How do I fertilize him, he gets lots of indirect light is on a windowsill but his leaves are only light green and no new leaves. Keep up the great videos!👍
So light green is a sign of "new" growth and a good thing. So honestly they just grow very slow, as long as you don't have dusty algae on the leaves, or holes/yellow spots, you are doing great. Some anubias varieties only put out 4 or 5 leaves a year.
Any nutrients in the water column are going to reach the anubias, so short of increasing water flow (so more nutrients pass by the roots/rhizome) there isn't anything you can...or should do differently.
Cheers! -Alex.
thx
You got it
Hello. Should I use the full spectrum or just the white lights for my Anubias plants to grow? Thank you.
Full spectrum helps avoid algae issues, and does keep plants healthier regardless of the type. But all that said...theyll survive
Very neat! Just found your channel and I'm pretty stoked with the type of science/trivia/info dense videos you produce.
Out of curiosity, any idea if this would work with other rhizomatous plants? Java fern and buce come to mind...
It works well with buce! And sometimes tubers like laganandra's or even swords (cutting notches from the main ball when it's not quite big enough to split. However java fern, will regrow...but too much shock causes it to grow from the leaf tips and not the rhizomes unfortunately. So it hasn't resulted in much other than splitting a java fern in my trials with it.
Thanks for tuning in and take a look around... haha 600+ videos...mostly dense if they're from the last 2 years. Take care and have a great week.
Cheers.
-Alex.
Ps. God damn i love these videos!
Hi thanks for the video
I have a doubt. I have a large piece of pinto. If I was to split it, then do I have to bother with making a wedge. Would the cut point on the rhizome act as a grow point for the anubias. Or is it still wise to make a wedge
The cut should work... I'd wait a month or two before adding another (if it doesn't trigger growth)
@@Fishtory that makes sense. Will do. Does the wedge need to be made on any specific part it the rhysime?
Another question on the Nana petit, I was going to go on eBay or somewhere in buy A bunch of small plants, they sell 25 small plants with six or eight leaves on them for about $50-$60 and I was just going to set up a tank with good light and dirt on the bottom or a decent substrate and liquid farts and throw some shrimp and guppies and snails in there and just give it plenty of light and flirts to see if I could grow it out fast. I want to make a little shrimp mountain covered with it but that would cost me about 600 bucks, if you separate your plants and want to grow a lot of them as fast as possible what would you do, you talked about the light, what else would you put in there? I was going to look for one of those 50 gallon short tanks and just put it by a window so it got actual sunlight part of the day or at least a good bit of indirect sunlight and just have a grow out tank With shrimp and snails to do maintenance and guppies or Endler’s or something just to keep the nutrients flowing but do you think for a grill out tank you would use a substrate or does that not help the Anubis at all?
Anubias doesn't need substrate and in fact burying it, kills it... however substrates help stabilize the bacterial load and also ph of a tank... they also buffer the water column and slowly release helpful compounds...so i think its a good choice. Secondly, you don't need a crazy strong light... a fluval 3.0 would work great (just because anubias live under thick rainforest canopy - so naturally they can't grow much faster than a certain fairly slow rate...but get some all in one liquid fertz for sure...and the window idea is fine if you're okay with handling some algae blooms now and again. Lastly...adding some fish for nitrates is a decent idea, but also i would add a few plants that are faster growers too...just to pull excess fertz out of the water like phosphates (anubias can't use them very fast...so they'll build up in the water column, even though other nutrients from your all in one fertalizer will be utilized...it helps prevent algae.
Good luck, and simply check every 3 or 4 months to see if there is room to split each plant...at the fastest rate, you can usually triple their growth, which means a doubling every 6 months or so.
Good luck!
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium thanks. Yeah, I love algae. Lol. Every time I set up a new tank that’s my goal is to get some nice green algae growth on the back and the sides. For my low light plant tank which is a 29 I just run one of those cheap aquaneat LED lights, it does OK but not greatI’ll leave it on 12 hours a day, But I don’t think it’s enough to promote really good plant growth, it keeps them going but I’m sure they want more light I was thinking about a finnex 24/7. The only reason I haven’t used a planted substrate yet is because my water here is incredibly soft and I have to add salts and minerals to get it up. It’s only 60 ppm and the pH out of the Fossett is only about six, I try to get it up to seven with a GH ofseven and a KH of three for the snails and guppies. If I had a substrate I’m worried that it will soften the water too much. I figured I’d wait till I move to give it a try but I might jump a little on the Java ferns for now
Good information, thanks for sharing. Only thing I thought didn't work for me was the use of scissors on the rhizomes in the very first cut you made. Using the scissors on the rhizome killed mine
Did you cut the rhizome or the roots/anchors... because the tubar/rhizome is fragile if too small. Over an inch or so of rhizome, and it should usually rebound if not buried in substrate
@@Fishtory Yes, it was the rhizome, the thick one. I'm not sure of this but when I cut through it i felt it crunching and I'm guessing it was because i used the scissor tip rather than closer to its hinge, would that matter?
Anytime I attach Anubias its roots try to find substrate. I’ve tested planting anubias in a nutrient rich substrate with the rhizome on top of the substrate and they’ve grown 10x as fast as the ones attached to driftwood and rocks. In experimenting I’ve also noticed they seem to grow in a less chaotic way as well. I encourage people to put at least one of their varieties in their substrate, just the roots, and watch it behave differently than Anubias grown out on hardscape.
This sounds fascinating. So i just take the plant partially bury it with, just the roots, not the rhizome? Could you explain the process? As imagine it in my head, how would you go about avoiding the plant from getting knocked over or pushed around since it would just be floating on the substrate? id love to try it.
@@sims8717 I recommend letting it float to grow longer roots or grab an Anubias that already has a good size root structure then plant that thick root system only. If you have fine sand, I’ll usually use super glue gel and glue a smaller rock or pebble to the root system and bury the roots with the rock that way. It’s definitely not totally necessary, but I find when the Anubias is getting nutrients at the roots and water column it’s truly bulletproof. I used to have anubias yellow when just attached to hardscape unless I used a liquid fertilizer which in turn caused an algae explosion on the anubias, but this way seems to be that perfect medium for me.
@@user-cr4or6bx5g thanks alot for the fast response. I'll try this!
@@sims8717 Also, you could just have an Anubias attached to a river rock lets just say, and let the roots vine down it to the substrate. That’s how I discovered the better growth in the first place. I pulled the rock out of the aquarium and saw that there was a massive root structure that pulled a crater out from underneath. I use dirt underneath my sand and it was all the way down to that layer. Anubias is probably one of my favorite plants just because of how cool it is when you let it go wild.
@@user-cr4or6bx5g Thank you so much for the fast response. I'll give this a try for sure.
How long do you reckon it takes for anubias nana to grow new leaves? I have one that lost all its leaves due to low nitrates after my betta died, but the rhizome is still very healthy and green. I tried the slit method you mentioned and I'm just wondering generally how long it'll take. I currently have no fish in the tank but i supplemented with root tabs and I'll be having some little emerald danios coming in later this week :0
So the root tabs won't help the anubias (and just so folks know, you never want to bury anubias in substrates). But if it's green and has some "fingers" of dark green roots, or white tipped spears of feathering roots, then it should come back. Light will help... if it doesn't sprout within 60 days, it take a super sharp blade and carve 2 or 3 wounds into it...that should shock it into growth again.
Best of luck! - Alex
Rewatching your stuff. Hope you're ok.
Thank you. Im much better but still slow and easily tired
@@Fishtory rest up. Take all the time you need.
These little dudes really go into hyperdrive if you allow them to grow out of the water
Definitely true of most aquatic plants :)
Hi Alexander. I just joined your channel. I don’t have a comment but I do have a question.
Can these little Anubis plants tolerate vitamins in the water. I add Vita Chem to the water when I do water changes. Can they survive when adding this vitamin. And, can they tolerate the aquarium salt that’s suppose to be safe for plants. When fish need salt once in a while I will add if it I find certain types of fungus on my fish, which works awesome by the way.
Please let me know. I have difficulty trying to grow plants in my aquariums.
Thanks Alexander. Cathy
Yes they can, but they don't like ph over 7.5 or so, and really enjoy shade more than direct light in most cases. Best of luck to you!
@@Fishtory
Thanks Alexander for returning my email. We live in Edmonton Alberta , the ph is 7.4 I’m hoping I can find these awesome little plants. I enjoy your videos and learn much from your knowledge of this fun hobby.
Totally off topic, sort of. I know this is about Anubias, but... I just got a huge handful size of java Fern W. I think it was a small portion of java that was put in the LFS display tank so no one ever asked if it was for sale, till me so it was really grown out. Along w like 6 big pieces is this one sad rhizome that was on the bottom, in the plant weight thing that is firm, has black roots, but no leaves. It does have like some little tiny green spots. Do you think it's worth leaving in the tank to see if it grows leaves?
Yeah try scaring any places with knotts or slight bumps/turns and see under strong light what it does
@@Fishtory thanks Alex, you're such a great wealth of information, you're a living encyclopedia!! 🙏✌️
That was a great video, I’ve seen others were They tell you to cut the stem and some say you can trim the roots if you want but nobody ever said why. I also think another problem with Anubis is people kind of label them as bulletproof plants that you can just throw in the tank and they do just fine, they still need nutrients you still have to add fertilizer to the water and though you don’t want the rhizome covered the route will still go into soil and absorb nutrients. I think a lot of people classify the easy plants and say you just throw them in the tank or glue them to a rock and they’ll be fine but I found it almost no plants are that tough unless you’re talking about Java moss or duck weed. Almost all of my easy plants need liquid fertilizer and every few months my Java fern start looking pretty bad and I throw route Tab in near them and that fixes it which means they are getting nutrients out of the soil and personally I don’t think they should be consideredSoil free plants they really do incredibly better when they have a fertile substrate to draw from, the anubius seem to do fine without it but still need liquid fertilizer. I suppose if you have a ton of I Fish and creatures in your tank pooping and providing those nutrients they can do better but I tend not to overstock my tanks and I’ve never had any that any of the plants would survive without some kind of fertilizer added.
Another weird thing You might have some input on, my oldest plant is a Java fern and it’s over two years maybe three years old and it did great for a long time but it’s a Narrowleaf in on the back of the leaves are used to put a A bunch of little dots which were basically seeds and when the leaf would die I would just sort of float it in there and new plants would shoot off of that, about six or eight months ago I got my last shoot and I kept that one but the lease on it are only three or 4 inches long and I’m growing that in a different tank but in the bigger tank with my original plant it’s stopped putting seeds on the leaves. Those little black dots aren’t on the back of the leaf anymore they’re just all green now and I float the dead leaves until they turn completely black and start to fall apart but it’s not giving me new plants anymore. I haven’t done too much to try and fix it other than throw route tabs in there and had planned to be moving soon so I figured I would start with a whole new tank and put all of those plants in it and that would have a section with a little substrate also but that’s been put off for a few months now. All I can think to do is buy some substrate and soak it for a couple days and then try and pour some back there behind it to give it something to work with, the other job offers I have are the wendlov (something like that the ones with the frayed ends) and they are kind of new I bought those at Petco in the tubes and they shed a few leaves that melted and the new ones are starting to grow in and I’m getting some growth out of them but I haven’t seen any new plants coming off of those leaves either. I haven’t put route tabs directly behind those yet like the Narrowleaf Java fern because they seem to be doing well on their own but do you have any idea why they would stop producing the seeds on the leaves? I use the API leaf zone liquid fertilizer and there Fordyce 6 inches away from where I put flourish route tabs. Is there a specific type of fertilizer that has to do with the seed growing apart that you know of?
Aquarium coop ez green is good for low tech plants and tanks...but short of actual hormones and temperature...seeds and bulbs grow at the rate they want to grow at, no matter what... buggers!
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium Temperature might be part of the problem, I keep my tank around 73.5 - 74° I never thought a few degrees would matter to the plants hmmm. 🤔
@@ShaneZettelmier that's about perfect for anubias... i mean 78 will grow them a little faster... but they get less dense and more stems the hotter it gets
I've found that Java Fern leafs only produce baby ferns to grow out with roots from their leafs when they're under stress or where they feel they're dying or not living in they're ideal water parameters. I.e. if they feel like they're dying they will use their energy to produce baby java ferns from their leaves to propagate new plants as a means of survival. This can usually be falsely prompted by removing a large healthy leaf from the mother plant and leaving it to float in the aquarium or by crimping the base of the leaf stem but leaving it still attached to the mother plant (purposefully damaging the leaf stem to falsely stress the plant into producing baby ferns from its leaves).
From reading your comment above it sounds like your providing a sufficient and suitable environment with supplemented nutrients/fertilizer for the ferns that the java ferns are not worried about reproducing, but instead are using the balance and opportunity in their environment to grow.
Try removing a leaf or crimping one of the leaf stems to falsely stress out the plant/leaf into producing baby ferns to root out of the leaf.
When I first bought my Java Fern from my local aquatic shop it had leaves with loads of baby plant roots shooting out of them and I purposely chose that plant because I thought I'd get multiple plant for the price of one; later did I realise that the plant was stressed out and was producing all these baby fern shoots out of the leaves as a last ditch effort to produce offspring and survive!
Give this a try and see 🪴
@@kris7791 yeah that’s basically what I’ve been doing for the past few months now, when I leave looks like it’s dying I just break it off and I floated on top. They seem to grow much faster at the surface, I’m guessing because they’re getting a lot more CO2.
The other thing I found with it if you just ignore it new little plants will just pop up on their own. I’ve had a couple dead leaves on there that I just never got around to pulling out and now I’ve got three or four little plants just growing, one of them is in some rocks the other two are right next to each other and just sort of got caught up in the black roots of the bigger plant. Lol.
All 6 that I have grow a new lead within 2 days if I cut off an old leaf. They grow a new one like clockwork now, same with the crypts in my tanks. For a long time I was so hesitant to touch them but now as soon as I see any leaf not looking well I cut it off. If they’re healthy plants they should shoot out a new one quick. That all being said if I don’t cut the Anubias they don’t grow much. My crypts grow like weeds though.
Yes co2 will help that...but those are very good observations
I just subbed and liked your video. Hope you don't mind if i save your video as a helpful reference to look back on from time to time. Thanks for the education on petite anubias.The anubias that I have are: petite Lorraine (has variegated leaves), pinto white, nana golden, coffeefolia. (Q1) nana golden has bright green/yellow leaves - I know in other plant's yellowing of leaves is a dificiency. deficiency .so how do i make the distinction? (2) I know the rhizome has to be on the surface of substrate or tied to rock/wood. I have experienced rhizome rot in the past..It's ok now though. So have you experienced that and what did you do to fix the issue? (3)If you had the same anubias I have what would you do to care for them? (4) Slow growing plants are to algea ..so would you add more water movement?
Hey there! Welcome first of all. Secondly, I answered 3 of these questions in another response somewhere close the this comment.
As for the yellowing, youll see speckled areas like someone burned the plant with a cigar. Usually if you look closely you will spot brown dots or around these burns or holes in the leaves...you will know, when you see it, honestly, it's a different color hue that will stand out.
As for roots, they'll go where every the closest surface to hold onto is, 99% of the time...and usual any tank with a community fish population will not need more fertz for the anubias, as they grow so slowly already...so I wouldn't worry about deficiency of nutrients to the roots unless leaves are browning and falling off, or full of holes.
@@Fishtory HI, just realised I'd already subbed you awhile ago. Forgot to mention I have soft water. . I last question.: Do anubias do better in full light or dappled light. Thanks ✌
They do best in low to medium light and clear clean water. That being said, they can take more basic water than many other plants. (In my opinion this is simply due to the firm texture and sturdy frame of this plant)
Would hornwort be ok in the same tank with nana petite? Worried it would take up all the nutrients away from the nana petite
Yes they work fine...but sometimes the nitrates do get eaten up faster by hornwart...if you have a test kit, then itd be easy to manage and or monitor though. 😉
What should you do if you want to grow the plant itself and no fish? don't have the room nor do I want to mess with an aquarium.
You can grow it on land or "terrestrially" as well. But having a high humidity environment is advised (a glass dome or cover and spray bottle will help it thrive). In the atmosphere they get most the nutrients needed easier than in the water (nitrogen, carbon and oxygen all are available 2 to 10x more than when under water )
I have 2 and my tank had a temp spike and all the leaves melted. I took all leaves off and left the nodes (rizones? cant spell) , my question is do they have a chance of coming back, or should I just toss them?
If brownish yellow, or melted to orange mush... They're dead leaves, but the rhizome is still alive and well and will regrow
@@Fishtory - everything is green, i left the stems which are green, so hoping it comes back. Thank you so much for responding back to me!
Do you also find that these techniques work for Buce?
They do work on most rhizome plants. Buce is a bit more sensitive to the scoring, but the timing and shaping tips are still the same
Also do you think leaving them afloat offers any chance at healthy growth?
If fertilizers are in the water...yes, but they'll put out anchor roots and try to latch onto something...so just trim those thin plastic looking roots as they appear longer than half an inch or so...then it will redirect energy into leaves or rhizome reserves (aka starch and sugars)
@@Fishtory interesting. And what is the recommended way of healthier growth - floating or attached? Sounds like the described maintenance will be easier when floating
How do you keep har glass of your plant
Shrimp
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Hey are there any fish nerds in upstate NY by chance?? Trying to find fish friends nearby but struggling. Anyone know of any channels out of that area?
Oh yeaaah! Check out "rikostan"
@@Fishtory thanks so much!! Id love if i had someone close to talk fish with!! Im sure my gf would be glad to put an end to me constantly showing her pictures and saying "have you ever seen.....check this plant out.....did you know...." lol
May sound old school but i have luck with joining facebook groups. There is a store that hosts a meeting every few months but it's not beginner friendly and they do nothing but push product. But I guess if you're experienced it'll work.
Plus...may sound odd but if you sell aquarium plants locally like FB market place alot of times you'll meet someone who is already in the hobby. then you get to talk fish plants and snails for a bit after the exchange.
You can also Reddit your city and see if there is a popular fishkeeping group nearby
does this type of anubia nana petit bloom as others?
Yes 👍
@@Fishtory Fantastic! any clue on where this can be seen?
Any ideas on preventing annoying anubias rot?
You know, my only advice is get snails that clean up the rotten spots. People often mistake the snail on the plant, as it eating a healthy leaf. However, from my experience, a snail almost never eats healthy anubias, but rather will eat the rot off and sometimes act as a nice and early way to detect infected plants.
I think trimming out the rot is the best solution I've found- which isn't a great solution at all. Scientists are actively studying it and hopefully we will find a scientifically vetted solution in the coming years.
Sorry that we don't know more
@@Fishtory thank you for taking the time to answer my question Alex. Mi barteri round/coin from buce pl are melting. But none of the coffefolia are.
Will that scaring trick work on Java Ferns as well?
It works sometimes but actually getting Java to grow from the tips of the leaves is an easier and faster method.
@@Fishtory thanks so much. Is there a video on how to do that? I'm completely new to all of that.
1:10 Be careful when capping a blade or needle. Tips and edges away from fingers at all times will avoid most injuries. Great video by the way...
Great advice! Thank you
Can anubius live on land in a terrarium?
Yes, with wet roots and enclosed humid conditions.
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Any organic fertilizer for anubias
So that's a tricky question. Most liquid fertz are elemental and thus are "organic"... but if you're asking if they were sourced originally from compost or elements that were ethically "organic"...its an unknown for all the products I've researched.
But seachem or ada "brighty" fertz both seem to fit the organic term.
You could also inquire about aquarium coop easy green or Dustin's planted tanks, plant juice stuff too (they surely know their supply line better than I do)
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Water base fertiliser or root tab?
Water 100% root tabs won't help rhizome plants or epiphites in your aquarium . So java fern, bucephalandra, anubias, mosses and floating plants all benefit from water column dosing and not at all (directly) from root tabs...in fact the root tabs may just spike your nitrates and cause algae growth, or in worst case scenario it will leach from the soil if disturbed or not utilized by roots and can spark an ammonia crash
@@Fishtory what about if i have Cryptocoryne, they have deeper root right. So water is better base better for them too?
Crypts feed from the deep roots mostly. But do get trace micro nutrients from the water column and also need their gas exchange to be easy... co2 in and in the sunlight o2 out of the pores
What happened to your tissue culture friend , sorry I cant remember his name.
I had lunch with him at ADA.
He's actually working on an all new project and strategy. I'm hoping to share it with the channel soon. He started a CZcams channel as well, called red fish blue fish
@@Fishtory right on , thanks . I've seen him in chat before. I'll go see if I'm subbed already
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Amazing
Glad you liked that
if you cut the roots the leaves wont grow any bigger,larger the roots larger it grows on the top thats how plants work.. and bonsai making uses this fact
Sort of... if you have just a bare rhizome, you can spark the leaves to grow midpoint and the "top" too. Or if there is a segment between leaf nodes, you can sprout more leaves by cutting tiny wedges out
I know its not the point of the video. But Anubias Baterei sp. 'Nana' , Nana is a variety of Baterei. Bonsai and Petite are the same buy differently branded, if i remember correctly.
Yes. As of 1979 petite nana is the same species as abubias bonsai or mini if it is nana it likely came from Africa or European greenhouses, and if it says bonsai then it was grown and harvested in Asia, in theory there is a mutation that occured long ago to make them small, but in the early 2000s they confirmed that they originate from the same species and actually have the same mutation but different superficial genomes.
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I hope you redo this video, since the plants themselves are not in focus. 😢
Vedieo doesn't consist how the planting is over
Over? They just grow until you want to split them. They can float, be tied to a rock or wood.
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Too much talk no tip
A man of action. Excellent. I recommend my videos to be played at 1.5x speed
Great video
Thank you. Thank you for watching also!