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.
Switched from thrive caps to these and everything took off! I like that I don’t have to worry about an ammonia spike if one of my fish dig up a tab
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Emily A. (Sumner, WA, US)
Wasted root tabs
I put these deep in my sand substrate and within an hour or 2 they had floated to the top of the substrate and ripped opened and released all the stuff into the water and left behind jelly pieces that are impossible to pick up. I’m going to have to do another water change so I don’t over dose my tank on ferts as I dosed with the easy green as well and my tank is all cloudy now. And I don’t want my fish to eat the jelly pieces with fertilizer on them…. Not impressed at all…
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Jordan W.
Awesome !
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Katie E. (Los Angeles, CA, US)
Neat, clean and effective
I love that these tabs are clean and don’t muddy the water like API Root Tabs. And the plants love them. Win win.
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Adam (Harrison, OH, US)
Not good
I hate writing a bad review for aquarium coop. I have purchased plants, brine shrimp, liquid fertilizer, and fish foods from aquarium coop. They have all been excellent, but these root tabs are not good. I planted these deep in my substrate and by the next morning they had floated up and released into the water column. It left behind this white jelly like stuff floating in my tank. It sucks I wasted $20+ on these tabs.
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Tracie L.
Works like a charm! My plants thrive
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Tara P.
Because I use purigen to keep my tank clean I think these easy root tabs are excellent to help the plants grow while I try to keep the yellow at bay due to the driftwood
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Michael E. (Dayton, OH, US)
Fixing my brown thumb
This is a must have if you want your rooted plants to grow.
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Zac H.
Works great!
I can really tell a difference when I use them regularly. They are the best iv come across and we'll worth the money! They have made my crypts the biggest iv had.