Anubias nana care
Anubias barteri var. nana
Anubias nana is a tough, low-growing plant with dark, leathery leaves that most fish, including many cichlids and goldfish, leave alone.
- Light
- Low
- CO₂
- Not needed
- Where it goes
- On wood or rock (not in the substrate)
- Growth
- Slow
- Care level
- Easy
- Height
- 2 to 4 in
- Temperature
- 72 to 82 °F
- How to plant
- Attach the rhizome to wood or rock; roots may grip the substrate but the rhizome stays above it
- Propagation
- Cut the rhizome into pieces with a few leaves each
In a 20 gallon long
12¾ in tallHow to grow anubias nana
Anubias nana is a tough, low-growing plant with dark, leathery leaves that most fish, including many cichlids and goldfish, leave alone. It needs low light and no CO₂. Like java fern, keep the rhizome out of the substrate.
Common problems
- Green spot algae on the slow-growing leaves: shade it, reduce the light period, add nerite snails.
- Rotting rhizome from burial.
Plants that grow in the same light
Sources
Plant identity from Wikipedia: Anubias barteri. Heights, temperatures and care are typical ranges in aquariums from common planted-tank practice, not figures from that article. Drawings are our own; photo credits follow.
Photo credits
Real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, resized and cropped to fit; each is used under the license named.
- Anubias nana Michael Linnenbach, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Cryptocoryne wendtii John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Vallisneria Damitr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Dwarf sagittaria Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Hornwort Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Marimo moss ball コムケ (Japanese Wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Pothos Jubair1985, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
