Baby tears is known for its delicate, small, round leaves that add interesting textures and contrasts nicely against larger-leafed plants. This relatively easy-to-grow, medium light stem plant makes a great foreground to midground plant due to its smaller size. If left untrimmed, baby tears can grow up to a foot tall, so make sure to trim it often to encourage low, bushy growth.
Delicate, Little Leaves
Baby tears is known for its little, round leaves and long, delicate stems. When given plenty of light and Easy Green fertilizer, it can grow quite thick and bushy, perfect for hiding nano fish, fry, and cherry shrimp.
Note: this species is slightly bigger than dwarf baby tears (Micranthemum callitrichoides, formerly Hemianthus callitrichoides 'Cuba').
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.
Showed up a little beat up but the ends were still green. Planted it anyway and will wait for the results. Aquarium coop has great customer service and they've always come through if plants don't come in good shape. I'll have to update in a few weeks to see if they survive!
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Keith a. (Boise, ID, US)
Greens
Plants arrived unharmed and wanting a new place to live. I quickly opened them up and got them separated for planting. It didn’t take long for them to take to their new residence. Thank you for the quick delivery. The addition to my tank is refreshing and the shrimp are happy as well. Again thank you!
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V.H. (Mauston, WI, US)
Well-packaged, growing well
The baby tears arrived looking a bit sad after their time in transit. Now after nearly two weeks in my tank, they have plenty of fresh new growth, and most of the leaves they arrived with have died away.
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Cole (Westfield, IN, US)
Wonderful product and packaging Mo
I received my order in 2 days and all plants came in great condition. I haven’t added them to my aquarium yet, but they all arrived live and packed very well.
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DM (Gig Harbor, WA, US)
Messy
Difficult to root and messy…leaves melt and float everywhere. Not my thing.
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Grace S. (Albuquerque, NM, US)
Great aquarium plant
He baby tears do
well in my tank. Beautiful background plant.
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Lauren (Owings, MD, US)
Arrived looking sad
I’m pretty disappointed in how this plant arrived. All stems were yellow and brown. I’m hopeful they’ll bounce back.
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curtis g. (Chandler, AZ, US)
My tears
Ordered the baby tears when I opened the PKG it was mushy and no roots impossible to try to plant no more plant purchases online I love the food that I bought though my fish love it but plants no more for me
