Growing Anubias Afzelii (Anubias Afzelii) In The Aquarium

This is an aquatic and mud plant. Its natural habitats are muddy wetlands, the coasts of ponds, creeks, streams, swamps, peatlands in lowland forests of Senegal, Guinea and Sierra Leone. This plant can grow up to 1 meter long. This species has creeping rhizome that is 4 cm thick with rosulate, long and narrow leaves. Leaf blades have shape from lanceolate to elliptical with gently undulating margins. The leaf stems are somewhat shorter than leaves. Their colour is from green to red. This species should be planted in the middle of the aquarium. We can't cover up the rhizome with a substrate. We must only cover roots of the plant. We can also arrange the plant on the decorative elements – roots or rocks. We can do this with help of the fishing line, sewing thread or rubber band. This is hardy and undemanding species. The fish don't gnaw its leaves. The leaves are often covered with algae, so it grows slowly. We should systematic remove damaged and withered leaves. This is spermatophyte species but in aquarium we reproduce it vegetatively – by dividing the rhizome.