Pearl weed is a bright green plant with delicate stems and small, oblong leaves. While it looks similar to baby tears, its leaves are more elongated and less circular in shape. It thrives under medium to high light conditions and provides excellent cover for small fish and shrimp. It can be kept as a midground plant if trimmed short or as a background plant if allowed to grow out.
Perfect for Jungle Aquariums
Pearl weed is the perfect plant for creating a jungle look in your planted aquarium. Its small, oblong leaves and long, delicate stems can quickly fill in your tank when given plenty of light and Easy Green fertilizer. Just snip off the tops and replant them in the ground for easy propagation.
How We Grow and Store Our Plants
We store all of our plants in aquariums with plenty of light and fertilizer to start converting their leaves. This picture is from our warehouse. Not all vendors store their plants in water; many store them out of water in bags straight from the farms. This is more time without light and doesn't give them a head start in growing underwater leaves.
We Include Heat Packs and Liners Free of Charge
We have a custom-developed algorithm to include heat packs and insulating plant liners as needed, based on the weather forecast from our warehouse to your shipping address. This helps keep plants at stable temperatures, both in hot and cold weather. Other vendors typically charge you at checkout for a heat pack. We include them when needed free of charge because it's our job to deliver our plants to your door healthy.
I was surprised at how delicate this plant was (thin stem and small leaves), but it didn't act delicate at all. What I mean is that it arrived very healthy and didn't experience any melting or dying in the tank. It isn't growing as fast as I'd like and isn't filling in as well as I expected, but that isn't the fault of Aquarium Co-Op. I'd buy this plant again in a heartbeat.
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Customer (Merced, CA, US)
Happy with my purchases
The pearl weed and other plants came in beautiful, and healthy with great packaging!
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Brea C. (Dallas, GA, US)
Great condition
It’s arrived in good condition
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Amanda S. (Langley, WA, US)
Made a return customer
Bought 2. Both arrived healthy, well packed and are doing great! Have already made other purchases and will continue to do so.
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Tina S. (Converse, TX, US)
Perfect plants
Pearl weed is gorgeous and healthy! Shipped quickly to TX in mid 90 degree weather with no melting or dead bits.
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R.P. (Plano, TX, US)
LOVE!!
The first batch I had gotten was a lil crazy, but with help from them the second was so so good. They also gave me quite a bit of it too!
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Joe T. (Bayonne, NJ, US)
Pearl Weed
Sorry to say the pearl weed has gone to complete meltdown. It has been a while but it shows no sign of coming back. It is complete mush. This is the second time I tried this plant and although it is listed as one of the easiest to keep, it never seems to make it whether I keep it in the pot, let it float free or plant it in the substrate.
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Kyle P. (Chico, CA, US)
No Success with Pearl Weed
I will start out by saying aquarium coop’s customers service is top notch. The first pearl weed i received was in rough shape and did not survive. Candi with customer service promptly shipped out a replacement which arrived in much better shape. I added root tabs to the moss and left it in the pot but it still melted away and died with in a couple weeks. All my other plants are thriving from Aquarium coop so not sure whats going on but I had a tough time with this plant unfortunately.
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Wes L. (Hollister, CA, US)
Pearl Weed
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Nicholas R. (Sioux Falls, SD, US)
Terrible
I was incredibly excited to start growing plants again for the first time in 10 years. I looked at reviews and thought that I would at least receive some sort of viable plants. However, the pearl weed, and other plants I received arrived in awful condition and was immediately disappointed in how there was simply only melted mess of a plants left.
I did try to plant what was there. Used root tabs and easy green as instructed. I’ve been waiting to see if they would rebound, however, after a few weeks the pearl weed is just not going to work.
Very disappointed in the pearl weed and just the condition of all the plants I received in the order. Won’t be ordering from here again.