Removing anubias from wood.

[Maloney]

Hi all, after a few years of running this tank in a very amateurish fashion I have acquired a larger tank , 400mm cube, and wish to transfer my plants into the new set up . So what's the best way to remove them from the wood ? Carefully try to peel them off or just hack through the roots?
Also I would like a recommendation on a plant like hydrocotyle sp japan that will climb my hardscape, the new set up will be low tech and I believe hydrocotyle sp japan only does well in a high tech set up?.

 

[EnderUK]

That's amazing, When I've done it I've simply peeled off, but I had no way near that growth.

 

[Maloney]

Thanks, that photo was taken after a trim a few months back, it need another now it's a bit of a jungle.. the lump of weeping moss on the right near the filter intake pipe is the size of a tennis ball now. This is how it started

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Maloney,Nice Cube with healthy plants too🙄 Just ease off the roots as carefully as you can and use a small blunt knife to get to the tricky bits.The plants will recover in no time 🙂
As to Hydro sp japan grows the same as Hydro trip. Like a weed In high tech, Just grows a bit slower in low tech still grows fast and will need constant trimming or it will go wild 😱 I have it in both my tanks there low tech. I even grow it in some of my Wabi-Kusas.Easy plant to grow with a nice leaf shape and light green colour🙂

 

[Maloney]

Ok thanks for the info, waiting for new filter and some new mosses to arrive , and some hydrocotyle sp japan , then I'll give it a go .gulp.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Very nice, I was going to say just move the wood into the new tank, but if that isn't an option? You can either do what "Greenfinger2" suggests, or you can cut some of the newer growth from your existing Anubias.

If you go for rhizome tips with about 5 leaves they should re-establish and re-attach fairly quickly. Cutting the rhizome will remove apical dominance, and a new shoot should grow out from one or more of the axillary buds (in a leaf scar) on the older rhizome section.

cheers Darrel

 

[Guest]

They're pretty resilient plants, I'm not very careful with mine and they don't seem to be bothered in the least.

 

[Maloney]

Thanks Darrel, yes that would be the easiest option as they are pretty much as one now but I have got a really nice big bogwood trunk I'd like to use in the new cube , I think it will look good with my anubias round the base and climbing it with a fern on top of the trunk and some more mosses which I've got into having had some success with the moss I have already. And the hydrocotyle winding inbetween . Well thats the plan anyhow