Live Aquarium Plants Variety Pack - 9 Bundles, Easy Beginner Low-Light Starter Kit

Nine bundles of hardy, beginner-friendly aquarium plants in one box. Our best-selling variety pack: the fastest way to fill out a new planted tank without guessing which plants will make it.

What you get

• 9 live plant bundles, a mixed assortment picked by our growers from what the nursery is cutting that week.
• Typical picks are easy stem and rosette plants such as Bacopa, Ludwigia and Rotala. No two packs are exactly the same.
• Each bundle is several stems or cuttings, so you get far more than nine plants once they are separated.

How they ship

Bare-root bundles and cuttings, the way the aquarium trade moves plants. No pots, no rock wool. That is why nine bundles cost about what one potted plant does.

On arrival

1. Open the box the day it arrives. Live plants are packed damp and soften the longer they stay sealed.
2. Cut the band off every bundle and separate the stems. A banded bundle holds water in the middle and rots from the inside if planted as one clump.
3. Rinse the plants. Nursery stock can carry a little duckweed or a tiny snail.
4. Strip the leaves from the bottom inch of each stem and push that inch into the gravel, an inch or two apart.
5. A soft stem is not a dead plant. Trim back to firm green tissue and plant the healthy top. Stem plants root from the cut.

Some older leaves may yellow and drop while the plants settle in. That is normal, and new growth follows.