Bucephalandra are endemic to Indonesia and are found on the island of Borneo. They are slow-growing, hardy and are especially well suited to grow attached to hardscape (rock \/ wood), as in the picture above and below.\u00a0They can also be grown on the substrate as long as the rhizome is not buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buce plants have very similar care requirements to anubias and java fern and can handle a wide range of temperatures from 70\u201382\u00b0F (21\u201328\u00b0C) and pH from 6\u20138. They can also grow in low to medium lighting, but as mentioned before, higher lighting may invite algae problems because of their slow growth. While adding CO_{2<\/sub> gas is not necessary, it can help to speed up growth. Because of their native habitat in fast-moving rivers, bucephalandra have developed very strong roots, so they will do well in fish tanks with high flow once established.<\/p>\n}

Does bucephalandra need fertilizer?<\/strong> Like most rhizome plants, they consume most of their nutrients from the water column and therefore would benefit from fertilizer like scape 1 & scape 2.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[230,75,30],"product_tag":[2069,2068,183],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9017","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-nature-live-plants-aquarium","7":"product_cat-midground-rhizome-rosette-plants","8":"product_cat-nature-aquarium-plants","9":"product_tag-anubias","10":"product_tag-buccephalandra","11":"product_tag-nature-aquarium-plants","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"sale","16":"taxable","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9017"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquadunia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}