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(pack of 3 stems)
🛡️ Natural algae control: its very rapid growth avidly consumes nitrates and phosphates, depriving algae of resources.
🫧 Oxygenating: highly active photosynthesis, with visible pure-oxygen bubbles forming on the leaves under strong light!
✅ Easy and tolerant: the perfect plant for beginners, with no notable requirements regarding water, light, or temperature, and it does perfectly well without added CO2.
🌿 Dense, natural decoration: feathery foliage that dresses the background and provides hiding places for fry, shrimp, and microfauna. It forms a dense curtain without “gaps.”
Who is Limnophila suitable for?
Beginners who want a simple, effective, attractive plant that grows successfully without making things complicated.
Low-tech enthusiasts looking for intense biological activity to continuously purify their aquarium.
Community tanks needing a dense, light-colored background that will highlight darker or reddish plant groups.
Shrimp or fry tanks requiring a fine, reassuring refuge.
Tips for and uses of Limnophila sessiliflora
Planting: in the background to create a light, dense curtain. Alternatively, in the midground as a clump rising among shorter plants.
Lighting: medium to strong for vigorous growth and dense foliage.
Substrate: ordinary sand is suitable. This plant feeds mainly from the water through its leaves and all its submerged tissues.
Pruning/propagation: Cut a tall stem from time to time and replant it. The base will also regrow, making your planting denser. Regular pruning prevents the stems from becoming bare at the base. Limnophila can grow above the water if allowed to, but it generally does so only slightly, preferring to spread across the surface. Cutting and replanting allows the lower sections to receive good light again.
Outdoors: possible only in summer, as it is sensitive to cold. It cannot overwinter in a pond, but it is quite oxygenating in summer, for example in a container pond.
FAQ - Limnophila sessiliflora
Is CO2 required?
It is unnecessary. It grows perfectly well without CO2 in a natural tank. Adding CO2 may at most increase its density.
How does it differ from Cabomba?
Limnophila sessiliflora is much less demanding, more tolerant, and easier to maintain, while offering a very similar light, feathery appearance.
How quickly does it grow?
5 cm per week is common, and sometimes even 10 cm per week under optimal conditions! Since it consumes nitrates and phosphates as quickly as it grows, algae have a hard time gaining a foothold!
When should it be pruned?
As soon as it reaches the surface. Cut it then and replant the tops of the stems to keep the clump compact. The stem bases left in the soil will then receive light again and produce new stems themselves!
Additional information
Scientific name:Limnophila sessiliflora
Plant type: large oxygenating stem plant oxygenating stem plant
Light: medium to strong
Temperature: 22 to 28°C. Suitable for aquariums, or for ponds only in summer.
Water: not at all affected by moderately hard water.
Size: maximum 40 to 50 cm
Growth: very fast
Substrate: ordinary sand, for example; it depends little on the substrate for nutrition.
Propagation: very easy, by simply taking cuttings from trimmed stems and replanting them.
Packaging: pack of 3 stems (approximate weight: 15 g).
Guarantee: our plants are guaranteed to be free of rock wool and any artificial substrate, ready to produce roots adapted to their new environment. They are grown in non-sterile conditions (not in vitro) and are already adapted to a living aquarium.
Recommendation: Although they are not classified as invasive plants (tropical origin), please do not release them into the wild. Our ecosystems are fragile and must be protected.
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We are growers and breeders of plants and water-dwelling invertebrates, from which we select and test ourselves the species best suited to natural or low-tech fishkeeping. We hand-pack them for each order just before shipment: freshness is therefore at its peak.
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