r/Bucephalandra

Arrived after 36h+ in shipping

Hopefully won't melt 🤞

My bucephalandra tank 9 months ago vs now and after a lot of melting. 🤣

Hi all! So I had purchased a buce brownie culture back in November (roughly 7 months ago) from my LFS. I found a nice, mostly shady spot under some drift wood and glued it a rock in my 55 gallon. The photos where it looks nice and pretty and bushy are when I first put it in the tank.
I then went on vacation for a week and somehow my heater had broken and the water had dropped from 78 to 68, potentially lower at night (the person checking in did not check on the temp🤦🏻‍♀️). I came home to what looked like a completely dead plant, thankfully no fish fatalities. I scraped off most of it but left any pieces that seemed to have green.
Fast forward to today: I was moving some rocks around and vacuuming the substrate and noticed these two tiny guys. I assume they’re buce but they could also be Anubis’s as I have those too. Is it even possible they survived all that? Do these look like buce??

Hiii! I just got this brownie purple buce for my new 10 gall betta tank. I put some on a piece of oak wood I have in the tank, and I just looked this morning and my ramshorn snails ATE HALF OF IT 😭 none of it was rotting or anything. I didn’t know ramshorn snails ate plants that weren’t rotting or dying?! Helppppppp!

Rescued from a poorly maintained LFS they didn't know the name

Pics are in different lighting

Light with UV vs light without UV (weekaqua Z series vs chihiros wrgb ii)