I have a 77gal mbuna tank with 80watts of NO 6700k light, and mostly anubias for plants. I get the lovely black algae as lots of anubias does and also leaf detrioration before new leaves grow in. I have upgraded the crappy reflectors but not enough time has gone by or there was no difference. I was considering changing to 108 watts of T5HO lighting but still want mostly anubias for plants. am I wasting my time/money as all I'll likely get is more algae rather than happer plants? I notice succinct said something about shading anubias, but they barely get light as it is? ??? opinions?
Roxy, in my opinion , i think the higher lights will amplify your problem, anubias is a very slow growing plants, so any excess nutrients in the water column will be quickly gobbled up by the algae, check your water parameters.
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Have you ever tried using excell in that tank Roxy? It may not be the cheapest thing in the long run but adding a bit of carbon will only do your plants good and the stuff does discourage bba. You can kill the bba with a heavy enough dose but perhaps just he elevated carbon levels might be enough to increase plant growth and outcompete the algae.
I have/had some, can't remember it doing much, and dosing it on a big tank gets $$. I'm gonna upgrade the lights, rearrange and add some different plants and see what happens. :)
If you cut the growing tip and replant, it wil create at least two off shoots right where you made the cut, so total you will have three tips that growing new leaves. One way to speed up the slow growing Anubias ;)
as in, trim off a leaf at it's base and it will grow back two leaves? or cut the rhizome? I think one problem I have it I should be trimming off the older leaves more often...
I didn't get to do the light upgrade, so if anyone else has anymore tips for anubias, bring 'em on. :)
... cut the rhizome with some roots on it :)