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Anubias barteri nana

Steven c

Steven c

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What happened to my Anubias barteri nana, I got it a few weeks ago and one of the leaves floated to the top but it looked perfect in form, this morning I was doing some gardening in the tank and another leaf come off, picked it up to inspect it and the last two perfectly formed leaves fell off leaving a muchie root/bulb like thing behind, I pulled the roots up some was green and looking well and they had taken to the soil and had spread since planting so the roots looked ok and the leaves looked fine but seemed to be a problem in the middle, if you have a mo you can see a photo by looking on my Flickr charter638 thanks, happy Sunday!
 
Hi Steven
Anubias species do not require to be fully planted in the substrate!
If you have planted the rhizome and is full covered will substrate this will make the plant rot....you can insert the long thin wiry roots into the substrate to anchor the plant!
Copy and paste a picture from Flicker here!
 
Hi hogan
Thanks for the reply, that was my hunch so I didn't plant the rhizome which made me think I should of I just covered the roots and layed it on the surface, wonder why it rotted?
 
Hi
Don't look good Steven
Did you plant all of the plant into the substrate?
There could be another answer to your plant problem!
Could be a lack of flow/nutrients/fertilizer
Or Anubias disease!
 
https://flic.kr/p/tjSyfS
Here you can see it as I planted it in the tank.

No your right it don't look good, it's clearly seen better days lol

I'm pretty sure it's not lack of food, I'm using tetra complete substrate with the odd squirt of tropica plant growth
Cheers
 
https://flic.kr/p/uh7hVc
Would you say the planting was correct, a zoomed in pic, as I'm hoping to replace this one tomorrow, I won't go same shop though incase as you said it's got a disease!
 
It can be that a root gets damaged, maybe unintentional with mainenance of the tank, roots can be very delicate and brake fast. A anubias root can go in the substrate if you put it close to it but it rather isn't the natural place for it. If a root brakes under the substrate it will start to rot away. A plant which is not fully adapted for that is in such a case extra susceptible for bacterial and fungicide infection, it can make a plant sick or just spread to the next root and up and the rizome will be slowly eaten away. If it would grow epyphitic far enough above the substrate the root can brake and the plant will heal the wound whit his own antibodies (Like we do with our lymph and white blood cells) when there is fresh flow around it. It's like if you would keep your wound wet and in a closed dirty inveronment, you will die a gangrenious death.
 
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id say that's defo what would of happened in this case zozo
 
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