My Anubias Tree

**lowell** · 8th Sep 2007, 22:06

My one month old tank:

Specs:
Tank: 48"X18"16"
Lighting:8 26Watts CFL / 8 hrs a day
CO2 :2 lbs tank at 3 bps
Filtration: Via Aqua 750
Ferts:PMDD 10 ml everyday

Plants:
anubias barteri coffeefolia
anubias barteri nana
anubias barteri nana petite
Anubias barteri barteri
anubias barteri broadleaf
anubias Minima
blyxia japopnica
Java fern
Windeløv
Crinum natans
Crinum Calamistratum
Hemianthus callitrichoides "Cuba" (immersed/submerged)
rotala rotundifolia green
Barclaya Longilifolia Red

Fauna:

Hundreds of Red Cherry Shrimps

**Sunfire** · 9th Sep 2007, 22:42

man I love it! It looks great! I love anubias! But how do you keep em free from algae since they grow so slowly?

**lowell** · 10th Sep 2007, 08:16

thanks sunfire.I put 2 bristlenose to maintain algae.I also put lots of stem plants which I will remove later when the tank is already stable.I didn't mention there in my 1st post that my driftwood is 2 ft long and it has 70 pcs of assorted anubias and my blyxia(foreground) is 140 pcs.maybe thats the reason why I have controlled algae.

**Ah_ZhaN** · 10th Sep 2007, 15:08

I pretty much love your anubias tree and the emmersed HC. Nice work on that.

**wasabi8888** · 10th Sep 2007, 16:07

Beautiful.. and it's only one month old!

**lowell** · 13th Sep 2007, 23:51

other pics:

my anubias tree

cherry shrimp near my pelia

rock size 12" x 7" x 8",looks small due to the size of blyxa

**ahkarboy** · 16th Sep 2007, 21:15

The tank would look much better if the foreground was hairgrass or glosso

**gwabbie** · 16th Sep 2007, 23:58

great looking tank u have!
considering jus a month old.

**lowell** · 17th Sep 2007, 08:10

Hi ahkarboy.I just got tired of planting glosso and hairgrass in my previous set ups.I just gave blyxa a try.thanks for your suggestion.I'm planning to reset the tank,maybe I'll consider glosso or elatine.

thanks gwabbie.

**inimicus** · 29th Feb 2008, 04:52

Hey lowell nice set up

What is the HC rooted on? You just left it to grow on your driftwood?

**dwgi32** · 29th Feb 2008, 15:42

Hi bro,

Like the emmersed HC, how did you do it?

**lowell** · 2nd Mar 2008, 11:12

hi inimicus,dwgi32.I just tied a bunch of HC on top of my driftwood.I already have this tank torn apart two weeks ago.the anubias kinda ovelapped each other.I will try to set it up again this week.but I guess the HC is going away.will post update soon.thanks for your comments.

**Thirteen** · 2nd Mar 2008, 19:53

your foreground of blyxia japopnicas looks real good!

**lowell** · 31st Aug 2009, 11:46

After a long long time and some long weekends (due to holidays here),I had the chance to revive my tank!!!I only maintained a few species of anubias in my tank.The ones left are the coffefolia,petite,"nana" gold,yellow heart,gracillis and heterophyllia.

another angle:

"nana" petite on driftwood: