TCulture Bucephalandra Chimaera Green (Pot)

Description

The TCulture Bucephalandra Chimaera Green (Pot) is an epiphytic aquatic plant that can be attached to driftwood or rocks.

Key Features

• Epiphytic plant — attach to hardscape rather than planting in substrate
• Low to moderate light requirements
• Provides natural cover and grazing surfaces for fish and shrimp

TCulture Bucephalandra Chimaera Green in a Singapore tank

Bucephalandra is a Bornean epiphyte that has become a staple of detailed nano aquascaping, and Chimaera Green offers compact, deep-green leaves that look superb tucked into the cracks of driftwood and stone. Like Anubias, it feeds from the water column, so the rhizome is never buried; we glue or tie it onto hardscape and let it grip over a few weeks. That habit makes it perfectly suited to our soft, slightly acidic SG tap water and to low-tech tanks without CO2.

The thing to manage in our warm 27-29C climate is its slowness. Buce grows at a leisurely pace, which is part of its charm but also gives algae a long window to settle on the leaves, so keep light moderate and flow gentle but present. Newly planted rhizomes sometimes shed a leaf or two as they adjust; that “melt” is normal, and fresh growth from the rhizome follows once it settles in.

Explore our full epiphytes collection. Our Bucephalandra care guide covers mounting and the melt phase, and if leaves brown our browning-leaves fix will help.