Thursday, February 26, 2009

My coffeefolia flowered!

So there I was happily watching television, enjoying the evening when I glanced over at my aquarium and thought "that Anubias looks very different tonight. I think I'll take a picture." So that's then I took this:


(The fish are Cardinal Tetras with an Albino Bristlenose catfish beneath)

A little less than 30 minutes later I looked again to see this:


I was excited because though this plant flowers often, for some reason the flowers never bloomed and just rotted at the stem after a couple of weeks at full height. This is the first time that a flower has actually opened on this plant in the 4 years I've had it. Much to my surprise it looked like this only an hour later:


I've never seen a flower open so quickly! 'Course, I can't say as I've ever watched from beginning to end so maybe I'm just last to the part here, but I thought it was really cool. Anubias barteri 'coffeefolia' is a great plant, very hardy and does well under minimal light. I have a single full length fluorescent over the tank (leaning toward Red spectrum 'cause it makes the Cardinal Tetras and the albino Bristlenose cats look really cool) and the substrate is flourite.

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