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Anubias

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Sep 25, 2026

CoryHOST
24:10
When do the other two fertilizers make sense? Uh, when you notice like, So on Java ferns, they really like potassium.
CoryHOST
24:20
Same with Anubias, really likes potassium.
CoryHOST
24:22
However, what gets lost so much on the internet is like, well, it was good for Anubias, so I now put it in there.
CoryHOST
24:29
And it's like, but you only have two Anubias.
CoryHOST
24:32
Easy Green has enough for that.
CoryHOST
24:34
Where, like, let's say the tank behind me, right? It's got all of this Bulbitus.
CoryHOST
24:39
Bulbitus doesn't have to have a ton of potassium.
CoryHOST
24:43
But if that was all Anubias, potassium would help a bunch.
CoryHOST
82:05
Like, oh, that might not be good.
CoryHOST
82:07
But I could, you know, may remove the plants and quarantine them or, Maybe I've got Anubias in there or Java fern, and they're like, salt? Who cares? And I can add some more in, and I go to, let me add another half a tablespoon per five gallons.
CoryHOST
82:22
And now in week three, oh, look at that.
CoryHOST
82:25
It's actually getting better.
CoryHOST
28:35
And then three or four days later, it's either too leggy or you're trimming it again and it doesn't look great.
CoryHOST
28:40
Where like an Anubias, a Crypt, an Amazon Sword, they take a while, right? So it's like, oh, they look terrible for like a month.
CoryHOST
28:49
And then they look good.
CoryHOST
28:50
And then they look good for like a year and then you trim them.
BenHOST
12:29
So they don't have the competition of those other plants.
BenHOST
12:31
And I think that's a lot of what happens in blackwater ecosystems where these are plants like Bucephalandras, Cryptocorynes, many of the Anubias, not all of them in those generas, but those are what we'd consider slower growing plants because they have limiting factors, but they can be slow growing because there's less competition.
AmyHOST
12:50
We're not structuring this one as a top five, especially because Calder's out today.
AmyHOST
12:54
But I do have a couple of groups of plants that are somewhat faster growing than I think you can do in the average black water tank.

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AmyHOST
78:54
Yeah.
AmyHOST
78:56
What other blackwater plants do we need to talk about? Did
Craig ForrestGUEST
79:00
we actually talk about Anubias? We did
BenHOST
79:02
not.
BenHOST
89:38
I've been trying to answer that question as soon as you asked it.
BenHOST
89:42
Which one? And, you know, is it Anubias nana because nobody's going to kill it? Is it Quentai because most people won't kill it and they're going to actually see some growth? Okay, eventually you're going to see some growth from the Anubias nana.
BenHOST
89:55
Or is it Red Ludwigia? Because it's a really easy plant, and you can grow it and reproduce it really, really easy.
BenHOST
90:04
And
BenHOST
90:43
Although at this point, all your friends already have it.
BenHOST
90:44
Right.
BenHOST
90:46
So maybe we'd go back to Anubias nana, because no one can kill it.
BenHOST
90:48
Yeah.
Arthur PrestonHOST
4:05
And for each of these, I'm going to give you not just what they are, but exactly how to get them in and settled.
Arthur PrestonHOST
4:11
I'm going to start with Anubias.
Arthur PrestonHOST
4:13
It's really the standout here.
Arthur PrestonHOST
4:14
It's a rhizome plant, meaning you tie or glue it to a rock or piece of wood rather than planting it in the substrate, and its leaves are thick and leathery.
Arthur PrestonHOST
4:36
Use cotton thread or plain fishing line to tie the rhizome, that's the thick horizontal stem, onto your wood or rock and never bury it in the substrate because a buried rhizome is going to rot.
Arthur PrestonHOST
4:46
Leave it tied for four to six weeks and by then it would have put down its own root hairs and gripped the surface and you can slip the thread away if you want to.
Arthur PrestonHOST
4:53
If you're newer to planted tanks generally, Anubias is a brilliant place to build confidence, precisely because it's this forgiving of a slightly clumsy first attempt.
Arthur PrestonHOST
5:03
Java fern is in a similar category and it's attached the same way.

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