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Lysimachia nummularia Aurea is a beautiful variety of Lysimachia nummularia, whose golden colour can form a good contrast to the other plants in an aquarium. It requires good light but makes no other demands. It is most decorative when planted in small groups.... View details & Shop online
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Micranthemum umbrosum is a beautiful plant with small round leaves. It is suitable for small or large aquariums. Relatively demanding in terms of light. CO2 addition is recommended to promote growth. Once the plant starts growing it grows fast, and the shoots have to be pinched out often, which can be planted as cuttings in the bottom. Most beautiful in groups of many stems.... View details & Shop online
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Microsorum pteropus is a water fern and is found attached to roots and rocks in Nature. The olive green leaves grow from a horizontal rhizome. To begin with the new plant should be attached to the substrate with a thin wire or a rubber band until new anchor roots have been formed. Microsorum pteropus does not require any special attention and survives and even grows at very low light intensities a... View details & Shop online
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Microsorum pteropus Windeløv is indeed among our most popular and prestigious plants. It is an easy plant and grows well under almost any conditions. Though the plant bears a variety name it was found in a natural Microsorum pteropus population on Java. The plant is a protected variety which means it can't be grown comercially without a prior accept from Tropica Aquarium Plants. Microsorum Windelø... View details & Shop online
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Cultivated above water and delivered with saw-toothed leaves, which after a transitional period in the aquarium develop into long, finely denticulated, needle-like leaves. In good light conditions it turns a beautiful copper colour and its characteristic appearance is a pleasing contrast to the other plants. Making few demands, Proserpinaca palustris varies in form according to its origin. The Tro... View details & Shop online
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Nesaea crassicaulis is a beautiful and highly recommended aquarium plant, although it makes relatively high demands on the light. It has red-brown, cognac-coloured leaves. Grows best in soft and slightly acidic water. Make sure the lower leaves get sufficient light, otherwise they turn black and fall off. This plant is similar to Amania species and is often mistaken for them. But in the aquarium i... View details & Shop online
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Nymphaea lotus (zenkeri) - or the Tiger Lotus - is recognised to be among the most graceful aquarium plants. It is a quite variable species and the leaf colour may vary from bright green over red-brown to red-violet. It is without comparison the most suitable Nymphaea species for aquarium purposes because it sets numerous water leaves before floating leaves are produced. When floating leaves are p... View details & Shop online
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Phyllanthus fluitans is one of very few aquatic representatives of the large family of Euphorbiaceae many of which inhabit much different habitats, for example the succulent dessert plants. Phyllanthus fluitans is a little floating plant with very short internodes but a well-developed root system. The flowers - small, white and unimpressive - are set late summer or early fall and after flowering t... View details & Shop online
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Microsorum pteropus is a highly variable species, and new varieties are easily bred. Microsorum pteropus 'Narrow' has narrower leaves, which grow at a less acute angle from the stem than the normal Microsorum pteropus. The plant attaches readily to roots and stones. A decorative plant, which is also suitable for smaller aquariums. See also Microsorum pteropus.... View details & Shop online
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Riccia fluitans is an aquatic liverwort. Its body is formed by the thallus which is fork-shaped. Its colour is emerald to deep green - the lighter forms usually grow in bright light. Riccia fluitans often forms thick mats on the surface of the water, but in the mud it takes a terrestrial form with short rhizoids and anchors itself to the bottom. Riccia was formerly used in breeding tanks for fish ... View details & Shop online
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The Latin name means the plant with the round leaves. But this only applies to the marsh variety, which has circular leaves. In aquariums Rotala rotundifolia has long, thin leaves. Unlike other Rotala species it is relatively undemanding, although it needs good light to produce red leaves. It forms side shoots willingly, becoming compact and bushy. This also means that it is hard for light to reac... View details & Shop online
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Growth and appearance similar to Rotala rotundifolia, but leaves are lighter green even when light is relatively good.... View details & Shop online
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There is some uncertainty about the correct name of this plant. For some time it has been sold as Mayaca sellowiana, but actually this is Rotala sp. Nanjenshan (species unknown). It is a graceful plant with needle-shaped leaves. It requires a relatively large amount of light, and CO2 addition is recommended to promote growth. The most decorative effect is achieved by planting it in groups. Also su... View details & Shop online
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Rotala wallichii is a demanding plant that develops red shoot tips in good light conditions. The most decorative effect can be achieved by planting a large number of stems in a group. R. wallichii is a good foreground plant, and suitable for small aquariums because it is easy to prune if it grows too large. CO2 addition boosts growth considerably. It also prefers soft, slightly acidic water... View details & Shop online
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Sagittaria platyphylla is slow growing but modest swamp plant. The submerged form which is used in the aquaria has up to 20 cm long strap-shaped leaves which are set in a rosette. In contrast to what is suggested by the slow growth rate, Sagittaria platyphylla usually benefits from a nutrient rich substrate in addition to high light. The plants prefer calcareously but acid to neutral water and for... View details & Shop online
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Sagittaria subulata is common and widespread in South and North America. It is a modest plant and therefore a good starter plant, though it prefers a relatively fine substrate. The narrow leaves it placed in a rosette and tubers are sometime set on the offshoots. Placed in the foreground it soon develops a dense cover from offshoots. For years Sagittaria subulata maintains its low growth form but ... View details & Shop online
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Salvinia natans is a floating fern that grows quickly if there is sufficient nutrition and light. Light leaves are a sign of a shortage of micro-nutrients. Thin the plant to stop it taking light from the plants at the bottom. Salvina varieties have small hairs on their leaves, making them water resistant. Helps prevent algae by shading parts of the aquarium and using nutrients in the water. Grows ... View details & Shop online
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Samolus valerandi is an amphibious plant with leaf rosettes consisting of 7-14 leaves. The leaves are light green, oval and broadened, 10 cm long and 3-4 cm wide with a narrow base. Samolus valerandi is very ornamental as a foreground plant, in shallow aquariua, or alternatively, as a swamp plant in terraria. Samolus valerandi benefits from a nutrient rich substrate - though it is not conditional ... View details & Shop online
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Variety of Shinnersia rivularis, distinguished by the white veins on the leaves. This colour mutation was discovered at the Dennerle aquarium plant nursery. The plant grows rapidly and soon reaches the water surface, but shoots can simply be pinched off and planted back on the bottom. See also Shinnersia rivularis.... View details & Shop online
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Shinnersia rivularis or Mexican Oak Leaf is a beautiful and very fast growing swamp plant. However, it thrive well under water too, and it is therefore well suited for aquaria as well as paludaria. The leaves are brightly green and very variable though often lanceolate in appearance. It requires high light to produce maximum growth rates but more moderate light is sufficient in most cases. The sub... View details & Shop online
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Vallisneria americana gigantea - the current and therefore correct name is Vallisneria americana var. americana Michaux - is a vigorous but also space-requiring plant. Several varieties are sold in the shops but most of them are cultural forms with more or less variation in leaf morphology. Most forms can produce leaves of up to two metres in length and even in rather deep tanks these will reach t... View details & Shop online
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Vallisneria americana natans is a very easy aquarium plant. It prefers hard, alkaline water and a fine nutrient rich substrate. Vallisneria americana natans is fast growing and propagates from the rhizome. As for many other aquarium plants, the maximum size depends much on the size of the aquarium. Therefore, this relatively large plant can also be used in the background of small aquaria where it ... View details & Shop online
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Vallisneria americana var. biwaensis is a graceful variety of V. americana. It has beautiful twisted leaves, but it needs more light than the other Valisneria species. Other twisted Valisneria are cultivated, so not all twisted Vallisneria are V. americana var. biwaensis.... View details & Shop online
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Vallisneria spiralis Tiger is a beautiful plant with conspicuous transverse darker bands on the leaves. It is selected from many others because of its beauty, sturdiness and fast growing characters. Vallisneria spiralis Tiger accepts all kind of waters and it does not require much light to maintain high growth rates.... View details & Shop online
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Vesicularia dubyana - the Java Moss - inhabits the amphibious zone of forest streams in South East Asia. It grow well below as well as above the water as long as the air is humid. V. dubyana attaches to rocks and roots also in natural habitats and it is especially suitable for the Nature Aquarium concept where it relatively easy builds beautiful turfs on roots. The Java Moss is sometimes a slow st... View details & Shop online
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PLANT SUBSTRATE acts as a long term nutrition store for waterplants, so ensuring magnificent and healthy waterplant growth. PLANT SUBSTRATE is a natural concentrate of clay and sphagnum, laid at the bottom of the gravel layer when you build your aquarium. Clay and sphagnum slowly release nutrients to waterplant roots and binds nutrition in the water in the bottom layer. Removing nutrition from wat... View details & Shop online
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PLANT NUTRTION plus capsules supply your water plants with all the nutrients they need for healthy and sustained growth over a long period of time. Nutrition release rates do not exceed plant absorption rates, so ensuring nutrition remains within a closed cycle between capsules and plant roots. PLANT NUTRITION plus capsules, besides ensuring fertile growth, also promote plant growth and the absorp... View details & Shop online
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PLANT NUTRITION liquid contains the most important nutrients for healthy and sustained aquarium plant growth. PLANT NUTRITION liquid does not however contain nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P).... View details & Shop online
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PLANT NUTRITION plus liquid contains all essential nutrients needed including nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). PLANT NUTRITION plus liquid is suitable for aquariums with many plants in relation to the number of fish, where plants can lack nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) which otherwise would be supplied by fish excrement and food remnants.... View details & Shop online
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