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Experiment: Anubias Snow White Petite (update 1)

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It has been 48 hours since I've started the anubias experiment. This is the positioning of each group, from left to right we have sugar water (group 3), high light (group 1) and med light (group 2) set ups respectively:    In Group 1, 50% perlite and 50% soil mix is used. All three plants are looking healthy after 48 hours of high light. However, there's slight curl in the leaves of the middle plant, and that could be due to too much high light. I'm planning to reduce my photo period rom 24 hours to 20 hours  In Group 2, similar soil mix is used as in group 1. The plant furthest away from the light source starts to melt, especially the white leaves. They became more translucent now and slowly melts away. I'm hoping that this initial die off will promote the growth of green leaves. Group 3 uses perlite only and is only watered with 0.1 mol sugar water (I've used coconut sugar which contains ~ 70% sucrose, 9% glucose, 9% fructose). The plants are starting to be brown
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Experiment: Anubias Snow White Petite

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Happy new year guys! I've ordered a shipment of 10 anubias snow white from APF ( link ) for less than $50, not to mention the $20 discount I got after spending $100 on my purchase. This is SUPER dirt cheap, as I recall the price per anubias snow white was $150 per piece 2 years ago! Can you imagine that? Anyway, I've been reading up a lot about this type of anubias online, and to my horror 95% of the folks who purchased it can't keep them alive.. So, I better come up with a solid plan, or else I'll end up to have the same fate.. Anubias snow white struggles to thrive because of the lack of chlorophyll in its leaf. Plus, they're freakingly tiny (I'm talking about the size of pinky finger), so their rhizomes is non-existent. In other words, this means that it has little or no energy storage to support it if it doesn't get optimum growth condition. So after reading a lot about growing them, I came up with a few grow conditions that I want to test. Group 1: Grow
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 I'm creating this blog for all the experiments in my aquarium. I figure out that it's a good way to keep track of the progress, plus it might benefit others who are curious too. So, don't expect fancy layouts or widgets on this blog =).
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