- Stimulates growth in root-feeding plants
- Full of essential plant nutrients and minerals
- Safe for shrimp, snail, and fish
If you have rooted plants in your aquarium, Easy Root Tabs are a great option to give your plants even more nutrients than substrate and fish waste alone. They're packed with mineralized top soil containing red clay and many other essential minerals plants need to thrive. Unlike many other aquarium root tabs out there, Easy Root Tabs do not contain ammonia-based ingredients and will not cause harmful effects if the contents of the capsule are released into the water column.
Monthly Plant Supplement
Hungry Root Feeders
Stronger Roots
Root Tab Placement
Usable in all Substrates
Fish, Shrimp, and Snail Safe
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Customer Reviews
Perfect as always
My Amazon swords haven't done better since I added these easy root tabs into my tank. They are taller and wider and much more healthy because of it.
So far not much difference plants are hard to make happy
These turned my plants that kept dying into healthy lush green plants within 2 weeks
I’ve started to have live plants in all 3 of my tanks. All of them have significant improvement in the growth of the plants, so far I have anubias nana and Java fern in my tanks, and they have grown immensely.
These pictures included are of the Java fern in my 10 gallon and 5.5 gallon tank.
Easy to use and give my plants a needed boost every month. I use this both in tanks with older aquasoil and tanks with rock substrate.
I had a complicated process that was working just ok, but took time and effort. The Easy Root Tabs are all around better.
So far so good. The only reason they didn't get a 5 stars: as a first time root tab user, I was unaware that they have some air in them and must have small holes poked into them and prefilled with water. This info is not on the packaging. I found out the next day when some of them started floaing up through the substrate. Thankfully the Aquarium Co Op forum came through with the needed information, I just wish it was on the bottle to prevent first time users from having any issues. Thanks for everything y'all do!
I have wanted to write this review many times but talked myself out of it each time until now, when I was using up the rest of this order of tabs. I have used hundreds of these root tabs and each time has been a frustrating experience. It is ridiculously difficult to keep these buried in your substrate. I have tried using these in standard heavy aquarium gravel, eco-complete, sand, and a combo of these together and have had the same experience: they will not stay buried, even in a 3.5-4” deep substrate bed.
They will either immediately float up or you will come back to your tank 5-10 minutes later to find root tabs sitting on the surface of your substrate or worse, floating at the top of the tank (which gives you the fun job of trying to figure out where you now have to re-add tabs).
The coop has said that the fertilizer in the root tab shouldn’t be harmful to anything living in the tank or cause issues with water quality which is good. It does kind of defeat the purpose though when root tabs are supposed to add fertilizer to the substrate, not the water column.
Also, once they are in the water for a few minutes you aren’t really able to push them back into the gravel because they disintegrate when touched. Cory has given “tips” on how to solve this problem by using a needle to poke a hole in each root tab to squeeze the air out but that is an annoying solution to the user, especially when they are trying to use 100+ of them at once.
When they stay in the substrate they work great but their finickiness makes them not worthwhile even with how much of a bargain they are. They are very hard to recommend to the point that I actually dissuade others from buying them which is unfortunate because they do fertilize plants very well.
I have wanted to write this review many times but talked myself out of it each time until now, when I was using up the rest of this order of tabs. I have used hundreds of these root tabs and each time has been a frustrating experience. It is ridiculously difficult to keep these buried in your substrate. I have tried using these in standard heavy aquarium gravel, eco-complete, sand, and a combo of these together and have had the same experience: they will not stay buried, even in a 3.5-4” deep substrate bed.
They will either immediately float up or you will come back to your tank 5-10 minutes later to find root tabs sitting on the surface of your substrate or worse, floating at the top of the tank (which gives you the fun job of trying to figure out where you now have to re-add tabs).
The coop has said that the fertilizer in the root tab shouldn’t be harmful to anything living in the tank or cause issues with water quality which is good. It does kind of defeat the purpose though when root tabs are supposed to add fertilizer to the substrate, not the water column.
Also, once they are in the water for a few minutes you aren’t really able to push them back into the gravel because they disintegrate when touched. Cory has given “tips” on how to solve this problem by using a needle to poke a hole in each root tab to squeeze the air out but that is an annoying solution to the user, especially when they are trying to use 100+ of them at once.
When they stay in the substrate they work great but their finickiness makes them not worthwhile even with how much of a bargain they are. They are very hard to recommend to the point that I actually dissuade others from buying them which is unfortunate because they do fertilize plants very well. This is a coop product I unfortunately can’t get behind.