Anubias barteri var. caladiifolia

Anubias barteri

A variety of:Anubias

The largest variety of Anubias barteri: blades up to 24 cm, deeply heart-shaped at the base in older plants, with leaf stalks that can exceed 40 cm. Its difficulty level is easy, not very easy as for the species.

Light: low
Difficulty: easy
Height: 3 – 40 cm (1.2 – 16 in)
Temperature: 12 – 30 °C (54 – 86 °F)

Leaf colour: green
Plant type: rhizome
Growth rate: slow
CO₂ demand: low
Tolerates light: low – high
pH: 5 – 8
Carbonate hardness: 0 – 21 °dKH
General hardness: 0 – 30 °dGH
Placement: on stone and wood +5 on stone and wood, cichlid-proof, midground, background, foreground, nano tank
Propagation: rhizome division, division +1 rhizome division, division, daughter plants
Grows emersed: yes

Appearance

Blades up to 24 cm, from narrowly to broadly ovate, with a deeply heart-shaped base in older plants; leaf stalks can exceed 40 cm; the edge is not wavy or only slightly so. A characteristic vein runs backward from a side vein into the basal lobe of the leaf. It is sometimes stated that the leaves are lighter and softer than in var. barteri. Height 10–40 cm, plant width 10–40 cm.

Keeping

The difficulty is easy — one step above the 'very easy' rating of the species as a whole. Growth slow, light from dim to bright, CO₂ 5–40 mg/l, temperature 22–26 °C.

Placement

Tie it to hardscape; suited to a cichlid tank, the background and the midground.

Trade names

Several forms exist in cultivation; for example, a broadly heart-shaped form is sold under the number '1705' — a laboratory propagation number.

Water conditions match

The water suits 1034 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.

Swordtail Guppies Cobra Guppy Blood Red Molly Butterflyfish Red Zebra Cichlid Julii Corydoras Featherfin Synodontis Red-finned Parotocinclus Gastromyzon monticola Egg-shaped Goldfish Flame Tetra Gardner's Killifish African Tetra Kenyi Cichlid Cuckoo Catfish Golden Swordtail Hypsolebias picturatus Common Zacco Labeo Bicolor Gambusia Flying barb Gastromyzon scitulus Albino Zebra Danio Geophagus Brokopondo

Will eat this plant

These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.

Bengal Loach Zebra Loach Burmese Border Loach Emperor Botia Spined Loach Marbled Headstander Pellegrin's Leporinus Leporinus striatus False Black Tetra Common Metynnis Mylossoma duriventre Red Whiptail Catfish Molly sphenops Balloon Molly Lyretail Molly Marble Molly Hi-Fin Platy Hawaii Platy Blue Platy Pintail Platy Black Platy Chocolate Molly Moonlight Gourami Melanotaenia parva

Matching water does not mean the fish will leave the plant alone.

Scientific and other names, conservation status

Other scientific names: Anubias lanceolata N. E. Brown, Anubias minima Chevalier
Family: Araceae
Conservation status: LC