Tropica Anubias barteri nana Aquarium Plant on Wood | Anubias Aquarium Plant

Rhizome growers occupy a particular niche in the aquascaper's toolkit, and this listing pairs one of the best-known names — Anubias barteri nana — with a ready-made home: Tropica supplies the plant already mounted on wood. It is catalogued among our Plants on Wood within the Anubias family, and it ships as a live, growing specimen for UK tanks.

Consult the file and the picture is consistent. The species entry reads Anubias barteri nana, with the closing word of the name indicating the compact form — nana translates as dwarf. The recorded growth habit is rhizomatous. The care grade sits at Easy. Tropica is the grower, and wood is the mounting. Five entries, all checkable, all describing the actual product rather than a generic Anubias essay borrowed from elsewhere.

Our advice before any live-plant purchase is unchanged: read your own tank first. The note attached to this product says to check light, fertiliser and CO2 needs against the planted aquarium layout, and it earns its place on the record. A mounted Anubias joining a setup whose lighting and dosing you have already verified is a purchase made with eyes open.

Mounted stock pairs naturally with the rest of an Anubias shortlist, and our Plants on Wood section gathers the wood-mounted options under one heading. If your layout has more than one hardscape feature to dress, browse the section while you are here and bring the order together in a single pass. Consolidating it also means the whole scape refresh lands as one delivery, which keeps your planning and your planting on the same weekend.

What the label tells you

• On record as: Anubias barteri nana
• Easy-grade care
• Habit: grows from a rhizome
• Mounted on wood at the Tropica nursery, sold live
• Check that lighting, dosing and CO2 in your tank suit the plant

Making the purchase count

Each unit is one plant on its own piece of wood, and the stock indicator on this page is live. Decide the wood's destination in your layout before you order — mounted plants are positioned rather than planted, so the choice of spot is most of the job. If the rest of your scape needs stocking too, build the complete order in one go and let everything arrive together.