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Hey! So I started up my tank a while ago and it’s finally cycled and I’m expecting my lil guys soon! I did have a question with live plants though. I didn’t use any type of aquasoil just sand so I stuck with plants that could live in that, Java moss, Anubis, and Java fern. However some of my Anubias died off pretty fast, the nana petite, I had it glued to some driftwood and it all pretty much died within a few weeks. I have another larger type in the sand that had some die back while acclimating buts doing great now. I got some more nana petite to try again, any advise on keeping it alive?
 

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Hello!!
About the Anubias, are the rhyzomes buried in the sand? And also if you want to stick anubias to something like wood or rocks you should have tied it with a thread of some kind. Anubias hate it when you bury or close their rhyzomes just like Bucephalandras.
 
They were glued to some driftwood. My new one is doing great! I had it by a window using just natural light, but I recently got a plant light, I think this was my issue before!
 
It's almost certainly the case that the roots/rhizome of the anubias was not getting enough flow. If its buried or even pressed too tightly into a crack it will die off. Gently wedged between two pieces of wood or rock is the way to go with it. Once happy it will live forever.
 
Yeah this one I didn’t glue I just wedged it in between the wood I think that helped!
 
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