- 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.
Now that's its adjusted to my tank parameters, its growing gang busters and looks great. I love the willowy look, with its long emerald green leaves.
I planted these in a 55 gallon aquarium with a gravel substrate and an undergravel filter, along with a supplemental HOB filter. Typically, they say that planting with a UGF isn’t recommended, but don’t tell that to these plants. They are growing strong! I do have CO2 injection, which definitely helps.
This plant was absolutely taking over my tank (in a good way) for about a year. It stopped going crazy even though I was still dosing easy green and root tabs after a while. I came back to the product page and figured out it was likely I had too much light, so I turned my lights down and they're taking off again. Very helpful, perfect plant to suck up everything and keeping me from having to change water as frequently.
Arrived quickly. Well potted.
These octopus plants are amazing! I recently purchased them for my betta's tank and they are already growing like crazy! If you want a fast growing plant I would highly recommend this. Just make sure you have aquarium co op root tabs and easy green fertilizer for this plant and you won't be disappointed I assure you! Thanks again
I got two of these plants one very large and one small , they have both grown about 4 inches in a few months and look great my fish are loving hiding in it , of course a new batch of hitchhiking snails are all over my tank but that’s almost a given with any plant purchases these day
The plant is doing great. The fish like it. I like it. Great purchase!
I’ve ordered aquatic plants often throughout the past 7 years that I’ve pursued this hobby, and I was very pleased with the plant I received. Large and healthy, just as it is pictured on the site. Shipping was fast!
This was my first time ordering plants from here. I am HIGHLY impressed. My plants were in great shape, tons of roots, and so well packaged! I will be buying more!
