If you have rooted plants in your aquarium, Easy Root Tabs are a great option to give your plants even more nutrients than substrate and fish waste alone. They're packed with mineralized top soil containing red clay and many other essential minerals plants need to thrive. Unlike many other aquarium root tabs out there, Easy Root Tabs do not contain ammonia-based ingredients and will not cause harmful effects if the contents of the capsule are released into the water column.
Monthly Plant Supplement
Our Easy Root Tabs make it easier to deliver fertilizer right to the roots of your plants. Our blend of mineralized top soil and nutrients provides all the essential building blocks that plants need to grow and thrive. Replenish monthly or as needed to keep your plants looking their best.
Hungry Root Feeders
Many plants like Cryptocoryne and sword plants prefer feeding from their roots and need nutrient-rich substrate. If these plants start yellowing and melting back, feed them lots of root tabs to ensure they grow big and healthy leaves.
Stronger Roots
When you use root tabs, this encourages the plant to grow stronger and more plentiful root structures. This helps prevent the plant from getting accidentally uprooted by Corydoras and other fish that dig for food.
Root Tab Placement
When first planting, place root tabs directly under the plant. Each month you can expand outwards with the root tabs as the roots will continue to stretch out through the substrate. Large plants often need several root tabs — 1 in the center and a few in a circle around the plant.
Usable in all Substrates
All substrates can use root tabs. The goal is to have a rich-nutrient substrate that consists of a mix of fish poo and nutrients. Root tabs bring the essential nutrients that can be missing from your fish food. Enriched aqua soils start out as a rich nutrient substrate, but over time the nutrients are consumed and need to be replaced or re-mineralized with root tabs.
Fish, Shrimp, and Snail Safe
Easy Root Tabs are safe for fish, shrimp, and snails. They are best planted at least an inch below the surface of the substrate.
Build the Easy Planted Aquarium
For the ultimate Easy Planted Aquarium, use Easy Root Tabs paired with Easy Green fertilizer and the Easy Plant LED to get incredible results and healthy plant growth.
Unfortunately, I have not used mine as my plants were frozen upon arrival, but the tabs are safe and sound.
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Julie S.
So far, I love these tabs. They are capsules instead of tablets. They are easy to place at the bottom of the substrate. My plants already show improvement.
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Barry B. (Idabel, OK, US)
Root tabs
The root taps really help with growth
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Bill (White Cloud, MI, US)
Works great
I've used these and easy green liquid fertilizer exclusively for years now and they work great. I've never had issues with them in shrimp tanks, either.
The root tabs do very much so want to float, but if you have a thick enough substrate just put them in *at an angle* and get them as deep into it as you can and it should stay put.
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Tropical T.W. (Cheyenne, WY, US)
Root Tabs
Work great have seen great plant growth in my new 55 with sandy bottom, these have been beneficial to helping plants grow
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Peter P. (Cranston, RI, US)
Root Tabs
I just received the Root Tabs and it seems like my Anubis are responding well to them plus the fertilizer.
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M.N.
Nicely packed capsules that don't float and do stay buried... though I did have to rebury one because my cories were shnuffling around it trying to get to the goods. After that they left them alone.
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Smokey B. (Shrewsbury, MA, US)
Smart design
They're like pill capsules, so they don't dissolve while you're trying to dig them into the substrate if you already have water in the tank! Very clever.
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Aqua N. (Chicago, IL, US)
Plant Food
My plants love these tabs!
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Zac (Kansas City, MO, US)
Root Tabs!
Very easy to use, especially with Irene and Corys tip to make a small hole and squeeze the air out. Grows the root feeders quickly! Would not use another root tab
