Leaf colourgreen
Native range
- Cameroon
- Congo
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Gulf of Guinea Is.
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Nigeria
rhizome on stone and wood cichlid-proof midground background foreground nano tank Conservation status: LC
A cultivar of dwarf anubias (var. nana) with young leaves yellow-green to lemon yellow, turning green with age. It grows even more slowly than var. nana.
- Light
- low
- Difficulty
- very easy
- Height
- 3 – 40 cm
- Temperature
- 12 – 30 °C
Parameters
Plant typerhizome
Growth rateslow
CO₂ demandlow
Tolerates lightlow – high
pH5 – 8
Carbonate hardness0 – 21 °dKH
General hardness0 – 30 °dGH
Placementon stone and wood +5
Propagationrhizome division, division +1
Grows emersedyes
Appearance
Young leaves are yellow-green to lemon yellow, turning light to medium green with age. Height 5–10 cm, plant width 5–20 cm.
Keeping
Kept the same way as var. nana, but grows even more slowly. Light from dim to bright, CO₂ 5–40 mg/l, temperature 22–26 °C.
Placement
A colour accent; tie it to hardscape, suited to cichlid tanks, the midground and foreground, and a nano aquarium.
Fish and this plant
Water conditions match
The water suits 1034 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.
Swordtail GuppiesCobra GuppyBlood Red MollyButterflyfishRed Zebra CichlidJulii CorydorasFeatherfin SynodontisRed-finned ParotocinclusGastromyzon monticolaEgg-shaped GoldfishFlame TetraGardner's KillifishAfrican TetraKenyi CichlidCuckoo CatfishGolden SwordtailHypsolebias picturatusCommon ZaccoLabeo BicolorGambusiaFlying barbGastromyzon scitulusAlbino Zebra DanioGeophagus Brokopondo
Will eat this plant
These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.
Bengal LoachZebra LoachBurmese Border LoachEmperor BotiaSpined LoachMarbled HeadstanderPellegrin's LeporinusLeporinus striatusFalse Black TetraCommon MetynnisMylossoma duriventreRed Whiptail CatfishMolly sphenopsBalloon MollyLyretail MollyMarble MollyHi-Fin PlatyHawaii PlatyBlue PlatyPintail PlatyBlack PlatyChocolate MollyMoonlight GouramiMelanotaenia parva