Live Aquarium Plants
Plants selected for real aquariums.
Stem plants, floaters, mosses, rhizome plants, and practical aquarium greenery maintained through the same kinds of systems we keep ourselves.
Start With the Tank
What do you want the plant to do?
Light, placement, growth habit, and the animals in the aquarium matter more than picking a plant because the picture looked good.
Keep the setup simple.
If you are not running injected CO₂, start with plants that are already comfortable growing without it. Good light and consistent nutrition still matter, but the equipment requirement stays reasonable.
Stem & Background
The plants you can keep cutting and rebuilding.
Stems make it easy to add height, density, and color. As they grow, healthy tops can often be trimmed and replanted to build a fuller group.
Hydrocotyle
Round-leaved growth that can work as a midground accent or be allowed to spread into a looser layered form.
Elodea
Dense bright-green stems that grow quickly through the water column and provide cover for shrimp, fry, and small fish.
Hornwort
Feathery fast growth that can be used as background mass or left floating where substrate planting is not useful.
Bacopa
Thick green leaves and upright growth make Bacopa a simple way to add height without requiring a high-tech setup.
Rotala
Fine growth that works well in grouped stems and can develop warmer tones as growing conditions improve.
Orange Juice Rotala
Narrow submerged leaves with warm orange potential, useful as either a midground accent or grouped background plant.
Ludwigia Repens
Green, bronze, and red tones give Ludwigia a warmer look without requiring the same conditions as many demanding red plants.
Lobelia Cardinalis
Rounded leaves and compact growth provide a different texture from the finer stems around it.
Foreground & Spreading
Give the bottom of the tank somewhere to go.
A useful foreground plant should stay relatively low or spread sideways instead of immediately competing with the background.
Dwarf Sag
A spreading foreground option that sends out runners and can gradually fill open substrate without requiring injected CO₂.
Hydrocotyle
Useful when you want a looser, less formal foreground or midground rather than a uniform carpet.
Ferns, Moss & Attached Growth
Greenery without rebuilding the substrate.
These plants work especially well when you want movable greenery, hardscape coverage, shrimp habitat, or a planted tank without relying entirely on rooted stems.
Java Fern Clip
An established Java Fern secured to a movable base, useful when you want greenery without burying the rhizome.
Water Fern Clip
Fine green foliage mounted for easy placement, with useful cover and additional grazing surface for small livestock.
Java Moss
Dense branching moss that can grow on hardscape or freely, with plenty of fine structure for shrimp, fry, and biofilm.
Floating & Emergent
The aquarium does not stop at the substrate.
Floaters use the water surface while emergent plants can put roots into the aquarium and keep their foliage above it.
Water Lettuce
Larger surface rosettes with hanging roots that provide structure, grazing area, and cover below the waterline.
Duckweed
Tiny, very fast-growing floaters for aquarists who genuinely want persistent surface coverage.
Mixed Floater Bag
A mixed selection from what is actively growing, so the exact combination can change with availability.
Pothos Clipping
Keep the roots in the aquarium and the foliage above water for an easy way to bring emergent growth into the setup.
Live Plant Expectations
The plant you receive is alive, not manufactured.
Growth form and appearance change with light, nutrients, water chemistry, CO₂, trimming, and where the plant was growing before it reached your aquarium. Healthy plants can still look different from one another.
Your tank affects the final color.
Red, bronze, and orange plants may become more or less colorful as growing conditions change.
New growth may look different.
Leaf spacing, size, density, and growth direction can change as the plant adapts to its new environment.
Trimming is part of keeping plants.
Fast stems and floaters can require regular cutting, replanting, or thinning once they establish.
Put the plant where its growth habit makes sense.
Foreground, background, floating, rhizome, and emergent plants are not interchangeable just because all of them are green.
One Honest Warning
Duckweed does not understand commitment issues.
If you want a fast-growing plant covering the surface, Duckweed is exceptionally good at the job.
If you think you may want it gone later, know what you are buying. Once Duckweed is established, completely removing every last piece can be frustrating. For one aquarist that is a feature. For another, Water Lettuce or a mixed floater bag may make more sense.
Plant Nutrition
Growing the plants is only half the job.
Water-column feeders and rooted plants do not all pull nutrients from the same place. RA Macro, Micro, and Root Tabs are now kept with the rest of our aquarium supplies rather than mixed into the live plant catalog.
Broken Arrow / Tulsa
Local pickup keeps live plants simple.
Coordinate pickup and the plants can stay in our systems until handoff instead of sitting packaged longer than necessary.
Shipping
Check the individual plant before planning around shipping.
Shipping eligibility can vary by product and current handling options. The individual product page should remain the source of truth for how that plant is currently offered.
Reserved Aquatics
Not sure what belongs where?
Send us the tank size, lighting, livestock, substrate, and what you want the plants to accomplish. We can help narrow the list before you buy a pile of plants that all want the same corner.