Translated from Russian by Pauk Part 1 - For beginners. Myths or in other words, what to buy in stores.

Very few aquarium plant hobbyists will walk past a beautiful, decorative, with glossy leaves, anubias plants. Caladifolia  make you think of the Bonsai tiny trees, the sharp, pointed upwards, leaf-blades of the "congensis", dwarf nana which remind you of a turtle shell mosaic, round leaves of the "ellipticus" stay apart from usual aquarium plant. Yet all of them belong to one genus of anubias.

The various kinds of anubias species, mentioned above, are not all of the ones that exist. They are pleasing to the eye, but still there’re rather rare aquarium inhabitancies. There are several reasons for that. First of all, anubias are not cheep. Second of all, even though they are a known species, you probably won't find much information. And, as usually happens in such cases, myths replace reliable information. For example, one myth tells they are extremely picky about their environment, or, even more, they cannot be cultivated in an aquarium at all. And they end up in seller’s aquarium by the confusion, or they try to find a moron to sell a terrestrial plant.

Let’s try to make some sense out of all that nonsense. So, the myth #1 states that anubias are terrestrial plants only and therefore aren't suitable to b ...

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