- Long, wispy leaves
- Easy background plant
- Great cover for fish and shrimp
Pogostemon stellatus 'Octopus' is very eye-catching due to its long, wispy and bright green leaves. This easy stem plant thrives under low to medium light and provides excellent cover for fish and shrimp to hide out. Once it starts getting established, it can grow quite tall in a short amount of time and may require regular trimming.
Customer Reviews
When I ordered this plant, I thought I would want to order more, but didn’t. So glad I didn’t!!! This plant doesn’t stop multiplying and will happily take over your tank, if permitted! It propagates easily, so far I had to remove some from my 55gal and put in my 40gal. And as it establishes, it grows even bigger in diameter. My lord, lol!! Much more than I was expecting. Which is both good and bad.
Just received my plant. Really excellent packaging, but the plant was much smaller than I expected from the website photo. I likely should have gone to my LFS and not been a lazy online buyer. Probably won't buy plants from aquarium co-op again even though the plant seems healthy.
I purchased my first pogostemon stellatus for my son’s first tank, a 20 gallon high. While I have several decades experience in the hobby, I have very limited experience, and even less success, with aquatic plants. I am happy to report that the pogostemon is thriving 45 days since purchase. This tank has a very basic led light (single stand of white bulbs), gets a little morning sun, and I use Easy Green 1x week plus a root tab. I plan on propagating this plant soon to use in my 70 gallon.
This is an amazing plant!
love the plants, perfect cover for fry to hide
It grows fast. Now filled 3 tanks and shared with 2 friends Iv never had a plant thrive so well that it helps my compost cause It grows so much. Other plants do okay in my tank but Iv got a bunch of slow growers but this stuff is crazy!
They are adopting to my tank well so far and I can’t wait to see them mature,Thank you.
The pant arrived in great shape and has been in my tank for about two weeks and is green and happy.
Plant arrived alright, but seemed stunted and small. It melted away despite my best efforts (watching videos, fertizilers, checking water parameters). All the leaves are gone and I'm checking to see if the stems have any sort of root or if it's truly dead.
Little smaller than what I was hoping for. But in time, it will fill in.