Anubias
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Anubias".
Sep 25, 2026
Sunday Fish School Ep.7
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24:10CoryHOST
When do the other two fertilizers make sense? Uh, when you notice like, So on Java ferns, they really like potassium.
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24:20CoryHOST
Same with Anubias, really likes potassium.
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24:22CoryHOST
However, what gets lost so much on the internet is like, well, it was good for Anubias, so I now put it in there.
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24:29CoryHOST
And it's like, but you only have two Anubias.
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24:32CoryHOST
Easy Green has enough for that.
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24:34CoryHOST
Where, like, let's say the tank behind me, right? It's got all of this Bulbitus.
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24:39CoryHOST
Bulbitus doesn't have to have a ton of potassium.
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24:43CoryHOST
But if that was all Anubias, potassium would help a bunch.
Sunday Fish School Ep.6
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82:05CoryHOST
Like, oh, that might not be good.
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82:07CoryHOST
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.
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82:22CoryHOST
And now in week three, oh, look at that.
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82:25CoryHOST
It's actually getting better.
Sunday Fish School Ep.4
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28:35CoryHOST
And then three or four days later, it's either too leggy or you're trimming it again and it doesn't look great.
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28:40CoryHOST
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.
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28:49CoryHOST
And then they look good.
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28:50CoryHOST
And then they look good for like a year and then you trim them.
285. Blackwater Plants (Low Light and Low PH)
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12:29BenHOST
So they don't have the competition of those other plants.
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12:31BenHOST
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.
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12:50AmyHOST
We're not structuring this one as a top five, especially because Calder's out today.
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12:54AmyHOST
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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78:54AmyHOST
Yeah.
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78:56AmyHOST
What other blackwater plants do we need to talk about? Did
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79:00Craig ForrestGUEST
we actually talk about Anubias? We did
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79:02BenHOST
not.
282. Amy, Ben and Calder Ask Each Other Questions
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89:38BenHOST
I've been trying to answer that question as soon as you asked it.
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89:42BenHOST
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.
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89:55BenHOST
Or is it Red Ludwigia? Because it's a really easy plant, and you can grow it and reproduce it really, really easy.
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90:04BenHOST
And
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90:43BenHOST
Although at this point, all your friends already have it.
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90:44BenHOST
Right.
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90:46BenHOST
So maybe we'd go back to Anubias nana, because no one can kill it.
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90:48BenHOST
Yeah.
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4:05Arthur PrestonHOST
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.
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4:11Arthur PrestonHOST
I'm going to start with Anubias.
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4:13Arthur PrestonHOST
It's really the standout here.
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4:14Arthur PrestonHOST
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.
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4:36Arthur PrestonHOST
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.
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4:46Arthur PrestonHOST
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.
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4:53Arthur PrestonHOST
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.
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5:03Arthur PrestonHOST
Java fern is in a similar category and it's attached the same way.