Thank you for such quality content and information! This is an excellent guide for me as I am setting up a 40 gallon scape now and intend on growing the Anubias Nana! I will subscribe and be waiting for more!
Great video Shaun, even if people do have plant-eating fish, they shouldn’t need to worry about their Anubias because of the presence of calcium oxalate, which gives them a bitter tatse.
@@user-bj9nw5wf5n One of my friends has a bunch of plecos and he was saying they eat his sword plants constantly but Anubias is always fine. He didn't know why though.
I gave it too much light at first and got a lot of algae. Now I shade my anubias with other aquarium plants. I have tried it when I was cycling my tank and it melted too! I was so confused because I thought it was supposed to be hardy. Now I cycle my tank without plants and with only hard scape.
I had one growing in a glass fishbowl shaped candle holder as a house plant until my dog yanked it out and shreded it 😭 the rhizome was intact so i attempted to save it. It now has a few small leaves. Then it started to rot. I got a ramshorn snail in some plants. He ate every bit of nastiness off and the plant put out 2 good leaves 😭 this plant survived almost dying twice. They are really tough.
@GlassBoxDiaries it's been a few months. The rot killed a few of the new leaves but in the last week it's put out 2 good leaves. My little hitch hiking snail saved the day 🤣😭 I know alot of people see ramshorns as pests but they can be good snails. He's been a busy little guy cleaning the tank up.
Are you able to reduce the light intensity? That helped remove it from mine, I also did water changes to reduce phosphate levels and cleaned my filter more regularly as it turns out the decomposing detritus in there was the source of the phosphate.
Thank you for such quality content and information! This is an excellent guide for me as I am setting up a 40 gallon scape now and intend on growing the Anubias Nana! I will subscribe and be waiting for more!
Cheers mate, glad its helping people :)
Great video Shaun, even if people do have plant-eating fish, they shouldn’t need to worry about their Anubias because of the presence of calcium oxalate, which gives them a bitter tatse.
Cheers mate, ahh, is that why plecos don't like them?
Yeah, the leaves can also be quite thick on certain types.
@@user-bj9nw5wf5n One of my friends has a bunch of plecos and he was saying they eat his sword plants constantly but Anubias is always fine. He didn't know why though.
I gave it too much light at first and got a lot of algae. Now I shade my anubias with other aquarium plants. I have tried it when I was cycling my tank and it melted too! I was so confused because I thought it was supposed to be hardy. Now I cycle my tank without plants and with only hard scape.
Same mate, I think its the best way to cycle a new tank, helps keep your plants and fish safe :)
@ totally agree 😊
I had one growing in a glass fishbowl shaped candle holder as a house plant until my dog yanked it out and shreded it 😭 the rhizome was intact so i attempted to save it. It now has a few small leaves. Then it started to rot. I got a ramshorn snail in some plants. He ate every bit of nastiness off and the plant put out 2 good leaves 😭 this plant survived almost dying twice. They are really tough.
Thats one hard anubias plant you have mate :).
One of mine melted right back in one of my old scapes but grew back over 3-4 months.
@GlassBoxDiaries it's been a few months. The rot killed a few of the new leaves but in the last week it's put out 2 good leaves. My little hitch hiking snail saved the day 🤣😭 I know alot of people see ramshorns as pests but they can be good snails. He's been a busy little guy cleaning the tank up.
@@MasonsRainforest Totally agree mate, I never used to like snails but they've since won me over.
what should i do if my anubias is infected by green spot algae? they are already under mostly shaded area (under my ludwigia super red).
Are you able to reduce the light intensity? That helped remove it from mine, I also did water changes to reduce phosphate levels and cleaned my filter more regularly as it turns out the decomposing detritus in there was the source of the phosphate.
@@GlassBoxDiaries unfortunately my led can't be dimmed. maybe i'll doing more water changes, see if it helps. thanks!