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Old October 30th, 2009  
Fish Helper
 
decaying anubias nana plant.

So, I have an anubias nana plant in my 20 gallon tank. It was doing fine for a while, and then stuff got rearranged and I accidentally buried the rhizome under the gravel. Before it was sticking out of the gravel. The plant is starting to get brown on the leaves which I'm positive means that it's dying.

I rearranged the gravel and unburied the rhizome, but do you think it may be too late for my poor anubias?
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Old October 30th, 2009  
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Anubias are very hardy plants. I would pull off the dying leaves so the plant can put the energy back into new growth. Then its a wait and see thing. Like I said they are hardy and hopefully it will pull through.
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Old October 30th, 2009  
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I agree with Nate. They are tough plants. I've had total die back only to have the anubius grow back after a couple of months & end up just as good as they ever were. Cut the dead/dying stuff off it & it should come back ok.
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Old October 31st, 2009  
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I cut it close to the rhizome, but there's still little nubs of stalks left. I'm hoping they'll grow back. After I cut the "decaying" leaves off I was looking at the brown spots again and rubbed them -- it ended up being brown algae, not decaying matter. So I'm angry at myself for jumping to conclusions, and hoping that the stalks will grow back to leaves soon.
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Old October 31st, 2009  
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Hello MMM. I have 1 anubia plant. The only live plant that I've ever had. It was from one of our members and I received it a couple of months ago. From what I've learned, stalks that you've trimmed will not grow back to a point but will remain there with the flat cut edge. However, hopefully you'll see some new shutes coming up from the bottom.
Mine is doing very well much to my surprise and I haven't done anything special for it.
Best of luck!
Ken
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Old October 31st, 2009  
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Originally Posted by aquarist48 View Post
Hello MMM. I have 1 anubia plant. The only live plant that I've ever had. It was from one of our members and I received it a couple of months ago. From what I've learned, stalks that you've trimmed will not grow back to a point but will remain there with the flat cut edge. However, hopefully you'll see some new shutes coming up from the bottom.
Mine is doing very well much to my surprise and I haven't done anything special for it.
Best of luck!
Ken
Well in that case I guess I'll have to trim them shorter so they don't poke any fish once I finally get some in there. Thanks Ken!
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