Banana plants have been a staple of the aquarium hobby for many years because of their ease of care and visual impact. The banana plant gets its name because its tubers (where nutrients are stored) are shaped like a bunch of bananas. Once established, banana plants grow both wavy, green leaves in the water and tall lily pads at the surface. When this happens, check to make sure your other plants aren't being shaded out by the lily pads and trim if necessary.
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.
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.
Delicate Leaves
The plant may come with a few small leaves. However, the leaves are delicate, and it is common for them to be damaged in transit. More leaves will grow about 7–14 days after being planted in an aquarium with some root tabs and Easy Green.
For some reason this shipment of a bunch of plants looked sickly. Last time I ordered they were perfect. I think something happened in shipping. I do not beleive it to be co ops fault. Hopefully they all come back in the water with easy green.
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Lester J.E. (Enola, PA, US)
It’s not the best ones that you ever sent me and I bought a lot of them from you when I’m not complaining man have a great day I don’t do surveys but for you special
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Emily B. (Leesburg, VA, US)
Good plant
Plant came in healthy and is doing fine in my tank so far. Shipping took a little longer than I expected. Still happy with my purchase.
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Jorge C. (Atlanta, GA, US)
Great plant
Looked at little sad when I got it but within in a week it was growing like crazy.
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T (Wylie, TX, US)
Growing healthy
Arrived in good condition and is growing nicely.
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Amanda
Plant arrived quickly and in great shape! Adorable!
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GrowMoreVeggies (Draper, UT, US)
Great little plants
Once again great looking plants arrived and they even came with several healthy leaves at around 1" long. They've been in for several weeks now and I'm getting lots of healthy leaves and root development. Exactly what I wanted.
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Ghggp (Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, US)
Love this plant!
Sure wish my goldfish would not eat it!
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HILLARY S. (Spokane, WA, US)
Lovely plants!
I have ordered banana plants before from Aquarium Coop and every time they come in great shape and just thrive in my 60 gallon shrimp and corydora tank! I even have sand substrate and it's thriving 😄 I will always recommend Aquarium Coop
