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Re: [APD] Anubias advice



You figured them out :-)

But most folks don't plant them in the substrate.  Tie them
to rocks, driftwood, etc.

Scott H.
--- "Kinney, Travis" <kinney at pdtarchs_com> wrote:
> I have 6+ anubias plants in a small 10G in my sons room.
> No filter, no
> light, no ferts added. Just plain gravel substrate and a
> large piece of
> driftwood. Only critters are snails and lots of baby
> amano shrimp. Som of
> the anubias are not even in the substrate and just float
> around. I think the
> shrimp are eating some of the new tender roots. The
> anubias don't have any
> algae (maybe because of all the shrimp) and are extremely
> full of foliage.
> One even looks like a sphere, since it is floating around
> there is no "up"
> for the leaves to grow toward so they are sprouting all
> around it. Looks
> cool. I know that as soon as I put them in my larger
> high-light tank they
> won't do as well, they will get leggy with fewer larger
> leaves that will
> tend to get spot algae. So for me, they seem to like low
> to no light, and
> very little ferts. Go figure.
> 
> -Travis
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