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Question - am establishing a new tank and have obtain 2 DW's with the Anubias plant established - is this a good move being a new tank set up?

Tank is a Aqua One 980 - lighting is 3 x 30w globes.

Setting this tank up for cichlids.

Suggestions on care for the 2 plants on DW.

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Add liquid ferts to the water.......

Djrichie
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I agree. I have Anubias with liquid fertilizers. You can buy fish-safe ones at your LFS. As far as I can tell the Anubias are doing great, I've even got a new leaf out of one of them even though they're slower growing.

Because they are a slow-growing plant so if the light is high they may grow algae on them. This has happened to me, but my bristlenose plecs keep them clean now since I got them.

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I agree with the above. I always cycle with plants in place. Do you know which variety of Anubias they are?

Also, a faster growing plant (eg. Hygrophila diformis, a.k.a. water wisteria) will help with the cycling process too, if you're looking to add something else.

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My 5ft tank is FULL of anubias all but 2 are on DW the others are tied to a small rock to stop them floating around.
I use a locally made liquid fert.
The 45lt Betta tank also has a lot of Anubias nana and this is fed every day with Seachem liquid ferts.

I am a bit concerned with your lighting can you give us more info about them please. If they are not the correct plant & daylight lights your plants could be in trouble.

To cycle a tank you can get some cheap floating or stem plants and let them float this will certainly help. A good floating plant is Water Sprite (I just tossed out several hand fulls yesterday) IT grows extreml fast in most conditions.

To help the cycling process and build up a good bacteria Seachem Stability is an excellent product and it does work.

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Keith - the lighting is as follows:
2 x 36in 30w
1 x 30in 25w
One of the lights is a blue light - not sure which one.

Twilight - am unsure of the variety of Anubias the plants are - they are well established on the driftwood so they are not going anywhere. We got them from a small pet store down the road from home - very beautiful. They look amazing at the moment in the tank.

finn,
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In addition to what the others have said, you may want to be careful with the cichlids. While they won't outright eat your plants, they may nip and rip at them leaving you with a few shreds of leaf left on each stem.

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Thanks Babel have heard that

We have an oscar (at present he is only 6cm) and 2 Maingano's at present that will go into the tank.

They look amazing at the moment in the tank.

Pictures?

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As the tank is just been set up have not been able to take a pic - hope to be able to dig the camera out tonight and take a pic.

Finally got the photo's uploaded - this is the new tank with the drift wood and plants

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa177/Finn_29/Fish%20tanks/P3110111.jpg

Our other tank is this

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa177/Finn_29/Fish%20tanks/P3110102.jpg

Hi Finn,

The new tank looks great. Welcome to the world of live plants! They really are nice anubias specimens you've got there

I'm going to be nit picky and suggest that as you get the opportunity you replace the bits of plastic plant on the rock pile / ornament with some live ones - vibrant live plants like those anubias tend to make any plastic plants in the general area look more plastic IMO. If you can get some anubias nana petite (the little one) to tie on where the bits of plastic plant are ATM I think that would just add the finishing touch to the tank.

Best of luck and most importantly have fun with the new tank.

G_T

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Thanks G_T

The plan is to get rid of the middle ornament and the plastic plants at a later date - got the tank from a friend on Saturday and its just so we can transfer our Oscar and the 2 Maingano's from the 3ft tank into the new tank.

In the 3ft tank we are going to get some live plants now as well - now that we know what we are doing and have some great ideas from people as to what to do.