Schismatoglottis

Schismatoglottis roseospatha

A rock-dwelling plant from Bornean waterfalls, kept like an anubias: tied to wood or stone, never buried. Narrow bright leaves with pale speckles and a faint blue cast.

Light: low–high
Difficulty: easy

Leaf colour: green, bronze or brown +1 green, bronze or brown, white markings
Plant type: rhizome
Growth rate: very slow
Tolerates light: low – high
pH: 4 – 7
Carbonate hardness: 0 – 14 °dKH
General hardness: 0 – 30 °dGH
Placement: on stone and wood +3 on stone and wood, midground, nano tank, foreground
Propagation: rhizome division, division +1 rhizome division, division, daughter plants
Grows emersed: yes

Appearance

Pointed bright green leaves on thin brown-yellow stalks. Under good light the surface picks up scattered white dots and a bluish tint through the middle of the leaf — closest in look to a cross between an anubias and a bucephalandra.

Keeping

Easy and very slow. Dim or bright light both work, carbon dioxide is optional. Because it comes from fast water it grips hardscape with unusually strong roots, so it is tied down once and left alone. As with all plants of this kind, the thick horizontal stem must stay above the substrate.

Placement

Tied or glued to wood and stone in the front or middle of the tank, including nano setups.

Propagation

By dividing the horizontal stem into pieces with several leaves each.

Water conditions match

The water suits 861 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.

Butterflyfish Julii Corydoras Featherfin Synodontis Red-finned Parotocinclus Gastromyzon monticola Egg-shaped Goldfish Flame Tetra Gardner's Killifish African Tetra Hypsolebias picturatus Common Zacco Labeo Bicolor Gambusia Flying barb Gastromyzon scitulus Albino Zebra Danio Geophagus Brokopondo Homaloptera bilineata Red-tailed Rasbora Boraras naevus Lampeye Killifish Spotted Raphael Catfish Corydoras melanotaenia Festivum cichlid

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 Marbled Headstander Pellegrin's Leporinus Leporinus striatus False Black Tetra Common Metynnis Mylossoma duriventre Red Whiptail Catfish Moonlight Gourami Melanotaenia parva

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

The same plant with a different look: light, water and care are shared with the species.

Other varieties: Schismatoglottis roseospatha in Vitro

Scientific and other names, conservation status

Schismatoglottis roseospatha: Bogner
Family: Araceae

Schismatoglottis

Tank conditions

Care and keeping