Anubias Congensis

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cbster

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Can you grow Anubias congensis in regular gravel? And without adding ferts to the water column just adding root tabs?
 
Yep, it can be grown in a gravel substrate (though attatching it to driftwood would be better) with minimal fertilization. Just remember, it will rot and die if you bury the rhizome (the large green horizontal part of the plant where all the leaves grow out of) in the substrate.
Regards,
Jake
 
cbster said:
What about attaching to a rock? Would you just attach it like java fern with thread?
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I've got some other Anubias types attached to rocks and they work fine. They moved around to everything; gravel, driftwood, floating (my Cherry-Fin Loach decided he didn't like them in the gravel one day), rocks. Now the Java Fern has the driftwood instead of the Anubias.

So far the experience with tying to rocks has been rather good;
One that was listed as a Nana came attached to a rock. About a month ago I cut it in half and tied the new section onto a rock. It is doing pretty well, not as many new leaves as the original or the bigger Anubias plants, but seems to be taking its time getting attached (the string loosened up last time I moved rocks and the plant moved around so pretty sure none of the roots have attached).
Another type, I'm not sure on which but it has rather large and tall smooth leaves, I cut into 4 sections a few months ago. They have been moved around a lot so they only really got tied down on their permanent homes early this month. The biggest sections though started out held down in gravel with some small stones and did great. I put them on some large rocks in the new 40g setup. The largest attached one root but I untied it too early and it broke loose a couple days later. The rest are covering their rocks in roots (but I don't trust untying them just yet after the past experiences) and are all running off a new leaf every week or two (granted they were upgraded to 2wpg and minimal fertilizer earlier this month so that probably is helping).
 
This tank has 1 40 watt bulb and it is a 75 gallon tank. Will this be enough light for this plant? I know it is a low light plant but is this to low. I have a double light fixture i could put on it. This will be the only plant in this tank.
 
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Maybe. A single T8 tube with the white reflectors gives you an insanely low amout of PAR. But, since it is an Anubias it may be able to survive. Oh, and yes, you can attatch it to rocks. I know most people use string, but some super glue works well too.
Regards,
Jake
 
I had my Anubias (again, different types, but a lot of them seem to be similar) in a 28g (18-19" tall) with a 17w T8 and no fertilizers for a little under two months. They didn't grow all that much during that time but they didn't seem to rot or lose color either. Although seeing where the new leaves are coming from in the new environment and now knowing what to look for, I think they would have grown eventually in the very low lighting. Just may have taken quite a while to notice anything.
 
fishorama said:
I have an anubias, maybe congensis, under that lighting, no ferts, very slow growing
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Yes Anubias is a slow grower in a low light and no fert setup...But when I attached mine to my wood (it was in the substrate) and upgraded my lights and started fert, it grew very very fast.
 
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