Marsilea hirsuta is a relatively easy-to-grow foreground plant that will carpet your aquarium like a field of clovers. The rounded leaves are bright green and may develop one to four lobes, depending on the environment. The plant ranges from 0.75–4 inches (2–10 cm) in height and stays shorter in medium to high lighting, which means minimal trimming is needed. Provide a nutrient-rich substrate (such as aquatic soil or a well-established, non-soil substrate) or plenty of root tabs for optimal growth.
100% Free of Pests
Tissue culture plants are "lab-grown" at the farms by taking a tissue sample from an existing plant and growing it in a sterile nutrient medium. While tissue culture plants tend to be smaller and more expensive than potted plants, they are 100% free of snails, algae, and duckweed.
We Include Heat Packs and Liners Free of Charge
We have a custom-developed algorithm to include heat packs and insulating plant liners as needed, based on the weather forecast from our warehouse to your shipping address. This helps keep plants at stable temperatures, both in hot and cold weather. Other vendors typically charge you at checkout for a heat pack. We include them when needed free of charge because it's our job to deliver our plants to your door healthy.
Cups Protect Plants in Shipping
Tissue culture plants have been optimized for long term storage. From the day that they are cultured, these plants are designed to stay in cups for months. This makes them especially forgiving during transit when they are in a box on their way to your home.
Cute little plant arrived healthy and adapting well.
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Teejay J. (Virginia Beach, VA, US)
Easy
I thought cultures would be harder then established plants. Boy was I wrong. So far out of all my efforts these have shown the most progress.
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Kevin O. (Jacksonville, FL, US)
Foreground water clover (Marsilea hirsuta)
Purchased two cultures for the foreground of a 29 gallon new setup. Plants arrived in great condition even after a 5 day transit. Note, I ordered on a Thursday and Aquarium co-op suggests ordering Sat/Sun which I will be doing in the future.
Separated the cultures into multiple smaller clumps and planted in inert gravel with root tabs, easy green liquid fert, and no CO2. Only took a week for the clumps to start sending out new horizontal runners and growing vertically. Using a hygger 957 light with custom settings that I think is generating "medium" PAR. I've seen that "low" PAR will make M. hirsuta grow long and high into the water column, I want to keep it short with higher light.
Overall, the cultures I received were high quality!
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Tim T. (Fresno, CA, US)
Pretty awesome plants!
Bought two bunches but thinking about it. One is enough for my 10gal but got 2 just in case it dies. The plants arrived really healthy and established itself to the tank pretty well! The only downside side for me is that the roots are so short that it was hard to root it on fine gravel. It does grow really quick with some root tabs and easy green. It’s shooting out about a new root a day. Highly recommend!!
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Matthew
Very good quality
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macenzie D.M. (Coal Valley, IL, US)
Marsilea tissue
Already spreading across the tank, in such a short time. Would recommend/10
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Chuck Y.
Fantastic
Everything was as advertised. Plant and packaging were perfect. Tried to get another but was out of stock. Laugh out loud. I will be ordering here much more.
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Kim E. (Westminster, CA, US)
Great plants
The plant came perfectly protected and packaged. Super happy with our whole order and will buy from this company again!
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Nicholas S. (Cabot, AR, US)
Good not great
The plant came in very good and will thrive in my tank once settled. I gave it a 4 instead of a 5 because there was a lot of the plant that was dead when received