Anubias barteri var. nana 'Golden Heart'

Anubias barteri

A variety of:Anubias

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 (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

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.

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