[APD] Anubias and Bolbitis

["AZ Burns" <aerburns at hotmail_com>]

Hello all,

I have a 75-gallon tank that I will be stocking with some Central American 
sand sifting cichlids from the genus Thorichthys some time next week. I have 
a 1" mixture of fine aragonite sand and Tahitian Moon fine black sand for a 
substrate and a lot of driftwood for decoration. I have (3) 32W T-8 bulbs 
over the tank for about 1.25 watts per gallon and it is filtered by (2) 
Emperor 400 bio-wheel filters so there is a fair amount of current and 
surface agitation.

I plan to put in a lot of Java Fern to provide some additional cover and 
territory for the cichlids, and because I want some green in there. But I 
also would like to have some other plants. I don't think anything rooted 
would do well with such a shallow and finely grained substrate and constant 
sifting by the cichlids. I tried floating hornwort and water sprite, but 
they end up slowly rotating at the front of the tank from all the current 
generated by the power filters.

I have considered Bolbitis fern, but I hear they are a little pickier than 
Java Fern about CO2, pH, and light. So I'm not sure how they would do in a 
low CO2, low light, and high pH tank like mine. I also have considered some 
Anubias, because I have heard they will do well attached to driftwood. But I 
also have heard that they do much better with a deep iron rich substrate.

Could anyone offer an opinion on how they think Bolbitis or Anubias would do 
in my tank?

Thank you,
AZ

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