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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bingamon on August 5, 2011 at 2:37pm

they look greener in these pics then they really are but for the most part out of the 5 I have the center vein of all the leaves are still really really green and the rhyzome is a yellowish green. I have three of them in this tank and two others that have disappeared in my larger tank so I don't know how those are doing. I just don't know if I should be looking at these like java fern where as long as the rhyzome is good it will live or like swords where the center vein has to be green.

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Permalink Reply by Hmoobthor on August 5, 2011 at 6:35pm

cut some of the dead leaves if u see them (looks transparent/clear)..

 

What I usually do for anubias when attaching them to driftwood is cut the roots short (not the rhyzome) and leave like 2-3 leaves...tied them down to wood

 

Then they grow back like crazy....very green...

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bingamon on August 7, 2011 at 1:16pm

Could it be that I have too much light for them? I'm only running two 13w 6500k cfls screw in style bulbs. I don't remember the par but I do remember it was in the medium high range.

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Permalink Reply by Hmoobthor on August 9, 2011 at 4:26pm

ur lighting is at low lighting which Anubias do well in..

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Bingamon on August 9, 2011 at 7:57pm

Well it's all dead but a very small portion of some rihzomes so I think it was the heat outside in the mailbox that did them in. Watching dustins vids I don't think Anubis has much of a problem with high light even. He has a ton thriving in his 125.

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