Live Aquarium Plants

Common Name: Crypt Parva Crypt Parva is one of the smallest species of Crypts.  It has green, grass-like leaves which can grow up to 4” tall, making it a suitable foreground and midground plant. Compared to other Crypts, it has a very slow rate of growth and can require more light. Cryptocoryne P...

Cryptocoryne sp. "Flamingo" is a highly sought-after plant due to its unique coloration!   Cryptocoryne sp. "Flamingo" is a relatively new and uncommon Cryptocoryne mutation that is highly remarkable for the pink coloration of its submerged form. With proper care, it can maintain much of its pink...

Echinodorous Tenellus Broad Leaf Family Name: Haloragaceae Origin: North America Height: 2-3" pH: 6.5-7.5 Care: Easy to Moderate Light: Medium to High Co2: Recommended Propagation: Cut stem and replant Growth rate: Moderate to Fast Tissue culture plants are grown in vitro from a state of the art ...

Mini hairgrass is the shortest hairgrass variety and is a superb carpeting plant, even in low-tech systems!   Mini Hairgrass (Eleocharis acicularis “Mini”) is a very popular foreground plant for the serious freshwater aquarium. This hardy, fast-growing plant can quickly “carpet” most aquariums. T...

Dwarf Hairgrass is an attractive aquatic carpeting plant that can make your aquarium floor resemble the natural-growing tallgrasses of a beautiful prairie!   Dwarf Hairgrass (Eleocharis parvula) is a very popular foreground or mid-ground plant for the freshwater aquarium. This hardy, fast-gro...

Giant Hairgrass is a very low-maintenance plant that will grow exceptionally tall and is an excellent background plant that can cover plumbing, heaters, and other hardaware in the aquarium, terrarium, or paludarium! Giant Hairgrass AKA Sand Spikerush (Eleocharis montevidensis) is a very dense-gro...

Pearl Weed is an exceptionally versatile stem plant whose growth can be controlled through lighting, allowing placement in the foreground, midground, or background!   Pearl Weed (Hemianthus micranthemoides), also known as Pearl Grass and Baby Tears, is a very popular and versatile stem plant that...

Common Name: Monte Carlo Monte Carlo is a low growing aquatic plant that originates from New Zealand.  It is a perfect foreground plant that if given sufficient lighting and nutrients can grow into a thick carpet of green foliage. The leaves are small and round with a beautiful bright green color...

Japanese Dwarf Pennywort is an incredible bright green, hardy carpeting plant that is excellent for almost any planted aquarium!   Japanese Dwarf Pennywort (Hydrocotyle tripartita var. “Japan”) is a very popular foreground and middle ground plant for the serious freshwater planted aquarium. With ...

This unique fern-like plant can display brown, maroon, and red coloration! It is a prolific grower and it will attach to rocks and driftwood very easily. Miramar Weed (Hygrophila pinnatifida) is a very unique plant that has become popular in the hobby over the past decade. It is a fern-like ep...

Microsorum pteropus, or Java fern, grows in innumerable locations in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia. It is often found on rocks or wood in rivulets and waterfalls. Some populations grow submersed permanently, others occur as terrestrial plants on moist forest ground. Java fern is a ver...

Windelov Java Fern is a very exotic-looking variant of the ever-popular and extremely durable Java Fern! Windelov Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus var. “Windelov”) is a very attractive, popular, and low-maintenance plant for the freshwater aquarium. In fact, it is possibly the most durable ornament...

Narrow Leaf Java Fern (Microsorum pteropus “Narrow”) is a very attractive, popular, and low-maintenance plant for the freshwater aquarium. Its long, bright green leaves provide an attractive aquascape as well as important refuge and grazing area for shrimp and fish as well as fry. Unlike many pla...

Limnophila sp. "Vietnam" has only been known in Europe since around 2010 in the aquarium hobby, and it is still hard to come buy. This delicate plant is a great discovery for aquascaping. Given that it is under intensive light it develops creeping well-ramifying 3 to 4 cm wide shoots, which makes...

Ludwigia Senegalensis, Ludwigia sp 'Guinea' Remove the lead weight and sponge from the stems and plant each stem individually into your substrate Ludwigia Senegalensis is a beautiful stem plant which can develop a red vein-like pattern on the leaves. The red coloration becomes more pronounced u...

Overall, Ludwigia repens Super Red is an easy plant to care for. Propagation is incredibly easy and quick. This plant will grow many small plants from only a few stems when kept in good conditions.  Simply take cuttings from the main stem of the plant and replant stems into the substrate at lea...

A fern species that is best suited for large aquariums, has undulated leaves and grows very fast and is bright green in color This Java fern variant was found in the beautiful spring pools near Krabi in southern Thailand. It occurs in these calcareous waters mostly under water. Years ago it was s...

Microsorum pteropus, or Java fern, grows in innumerable locations in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia. It is often found on rocks or wood in rivulets and waterfalls. Some populations grow submersed permanently, others occur as terrestrial plants on moist forest ground. Java fern is a ver...

Rotala Blood Red is a form of Rotala Rotundifolia that is native to southeastern China. The leaves are long and narrow, similar to those of Rotala H’ra. Rotala Blood Red is a more demanding type of Rotala and should be grown under high light and with injection of CO2.  Pictures show the plant's s...

Common Name: Rotala Macrandra Easily one of the reddest plants we keep in stock!    The Rotala Macrandra - Red, commonly known as the Giant Red Rotala, is a beautiful red plant from Asia. The species has among the most intense coloration in the aquarium and is stunning when kept in top condition....

This plant has possibly the most potential of any aquatic plant !   Pink Rotala (Rotala macrandra) is an exceptionally beautiful plant that is highly appreciated by aquarists. It is much more demanding than many other Rotala species, but it is extremely rewarding when given excellent to optimal c...

Common Name: Rotala H'ra, Rotala Gia Lai Rotala H'ra is a new plant to the hobby that makes a delicate and dramatic back or mid-ground accent. This stem plant has profuse thin, pointed red or orange leaves that typically grow from an ascending rather than upright stem. Hailing from the central re...

Common Name: Rotala H'ra, Rotala Gia Lai Rotala H'ra is a new plant to the hobby that makes a delicate and dramatic back or mid-ground accent. This stem plant has profuse thin, pointed red or orange leaves that typically grow from an ascending rather than upright stem. Hailing from the central re...

Limnophila hippuridoides is a beautiful stem plant from the Malayan peninsula, often erroneously called Limnophila aromatica that is a closely related species. However it differs from L. aromatica by considerably more than three leaves per whorl. Its shoots are about 6-10 cm wide. The submerged l...