Knight00ps

So six month update. I went ahead and did some hacking. The longest of the two rhizomes I cut into three equal sized pieces. Two of the pieces had leaves which I trimmed down to one or two of the newest and best looking leaves. One piece was so well rooted that I left where it was with no leaves. Well they all survived and have beautiful new growth which is much neater and a more manageable size. So don't be scared. Go ahead and whack your anubias, I now have 3 enjoyable plants instead of one monster.

I saw a recent video from Cory saying that 24 hours in an established tank will seed a sponge filter to help established a new tank. I'll let a sponge filter go in an established tank for a week to speed up establishing a new tank with good results and I think I remember Cory saying the same in a video. Keep in mind if you have snails or undesirable alga in the established tank you may also seed the new tank with that.

It was krazy glued to the piece of wood you see in the photo. Main rhizome is thicker then my thumb and about six inches long.

I ordered from the coop. Didn't do a good job of keeping track of what is what and didn't want the evidence of how much I've spent through the years just laying around but a I think it is Anubias Hastifolia if I'm looking at the correct order confirmation. here is an attempted photo of the rhizome. I can see there are some smaller nodes(?) with leaves coming off with new leaves.

Wow thanks for the quick response. I'll check it out. Here are some images. Tuff to get a picture of the rhizome in this "heavily planted" ie. overgrown tank but you can see the leaves and cluster of stems.

I've got a great big beautiful anubias that has been in the tank for several years but now is growing to tall for my 75 gallon tank. The rhizome of the plant has tripled or more in size since getting it, now 6 inches, with lots of large healthy leaves. Stems are growing more then 24 inches long and pushing against the lid of the tank and the leaves are very large, size of a large man's hand, and so they block a lot of light. If I didn't have a lid on the tank the newest leaves would be close to 6 inches above the water line and the length of the stem, leaf to the rhizome, would be close to 30 inches. I can't go with a open top so I'm thinking I either get rid of the the plant or I try chopping it back and see what happens. Before I did either I thought I'd see if the community has any suggestions? Thank you!