Marsilea Hirsuta Tissue Culture
$11.99
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Marsilea Hirsuta Tissue Culture
$11.99
- Clover-like carpeting plant
- Easily separates into multiple plant starts
- 100% clean with no algae, duckweed, or snails
- Not available to be shipped to Hawaii and Alaska.
Marsilea hirsuta is a relatively easy-to-grow foreground plant that will carpet your aquarium like a field of clovers. The rounded leaves are bright green and may develop one to four lobes, depending on the environment. The plant ranges from 0.75–4 inches (2–10 cm) in height and stays shorter in medium to high lighting, which means minimal trimming is needed. Provide a nutrient-rich substrate (such as aquatic soil or a well-established, non-soil substrate) or plenty of root tabs for optimal growth.
- Scientific Name: Marsilea hirsuta
- Native To: Australia
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Skill Level: Easy
- Placement: Foreground
- Recommended Light: Medium Light 20-35 PAR (click to see our PAR chart)
- CO2 Requirement: Low to none
- Preferred Fertilizer: Easy Root Tabs and Easy Green liquid fertilizer
- Propagation: Spreads via runners across the ground
***Being a natural product, the plant appearance can vary from what is shown.***
How to Plant Marsilea Hirsuta
1. Upon receiving the tissue culture plant, immediately open the container and rinse off any excess liquid from the roots.
2. Gently separate the plant into multiple small clumps.
3. Insert each plant start or clump into the substrate using planting tweezers or your fingers so that the roots are completely buried but the leaves are above the substrate.
4. Once the plant has become well-established, you can trim the tips with plant scissors for a tidier look.
5. Make sure to add lots of root tabs if you’re using inert substrate or if your nutrient-rich substrate is depleted.
How to Grow Marsilea Hirsuta
— Marsilea hirsuta care is fairly easy, so start by using medium lighting between 20-35 PAR.
— Why is my Marsilea hirsuta melting? This plant is grown out of the water at the farm and needs time to create new leaves that are used to living underwater. To help the plant recover faster and grow new leaves that are accustomed to your water parameters, leave the roots planted in the ground and make sure to provide nutrient-rich planted tank substrate or Easy Root Tabs.
— Why is my Marsilea hirsuta turning yellow? If your plant is getting enough light, it may be a nutrient deficiency. If the leaves are yellowing or turning pale after a couple of months, please add more root tabs.
— How to trim Marsilea hirsuta: If the plant has dying or melting leaves, cut them off at the base of the leaf stem. If you wish to prune your Marsilea hirsuta carpet to look like a field of grass, use curved scissors to cut all of the leaves to an even height, much like mowing a lawn.
How to Propagate Marsilea Hirsuta
Once it becomes well-established, Marsilea hirsuta self-propagates by sending out runners all across the substrate, which can eventually provide ground cover for an entire aquarium. The new baby plants can be trimmed off and replanted or left to grow out naturally.
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I searched far and wide for this plant, only Aquarium Co-Op had it in stock. I received healthy tissue plants that worked perfectly for my new scape.
A
I ordered the M.H through Aquarium Co-Op because it's a hard plant to find in Texas. The delivery was on point and other than couple of few brown leaves in the cup, these plants arrived in perfect shape! I'm definitely gonna buy again from these guys, In fact I'm about to order another plants from Aquarium Co-Op
K
Purchased two cultures for the foreground of a 29 gallon new setup. Plants arrived in great condition even after a 5 day transit. Note, I ordered on a Thursday and Aquarium co-op suggests ordering Sat/Sun which I will be doing in the future.
Separated the cultures into multiple smaller clumps and planted in inert gravel with root tabs, easy green liquid fert, and no CO2. Only took a week for the clumps to start sending out new horizontal runners and growing vertically. Using a hygger 957 light with custom settings that I think is generating "medium" PAR. I've seen that "low" PAR will make M. hirsuta grow long and high into the water column, I want to keep it short with higher light.
Overall, the cultures I received were high quality!
T
Bought two bunches but thinking about it. One is enough for my 10gal but got 2 just in case it dies. The plants arrived really healthy and established itself to the tank pretty well! The only downside side for me is that the roots are so short that it was hard to root it on fine gravel. It does grow really quick with some root tabs and easy green. It’s shooting out about a new root a day. Highly recommend!!
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Cultures arrived to the west coast in four days. Plants looked healthy. The agar had liquified but I saw no negative effects. I’ve had about 1/3 of it planted for a couple weeks and it looks to be starting to take hold and grow. I just planted the rest today. Between two cups of tissue cultures I got perhaps 8 dozen or more individual plantable sprigs. I would definitely try them again.
K
Gave it roots tabs and easy green and the broke them up into smaller plants and they started growing the next day
K
This is my first step into tissue culture plants. This little cup is slap full of plants! They look very nice, healthy, and lots of roots. I removed the label for pictures, but even that was nice quality for being just a label. I will definitely be ordering other tissue culture plants to try.
J
Fantastic condition
E
Came with the agar already removed, all I had to do was rinse and put in my tank. Aquarium Co-op is awesome.
J
Everything was great!
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Love buying all my stuff from aquariumcoop.com. They have really great customer service as well.
D
This tissue culture had plenty to go around my 29 gallon tank. Planting was relatively easy in my sand/soil substrate, and most of them are looking green and healthy 2 weeks later.
M
Product is great, looks phenomenal in my tank!
C
Dense clumps, healthy leaves and roots
T
Came in thicker and healthier than Elvis's pompadour, I'm excited to watch it fill out in my tank!
J
You receive a ton of it and it was healthy. It was enough to do a dry start planting on a 29 gallon tank.
T
Plant was healthy and green when it arrived. Looking forward to it spreading and making a good ground cover.
J
Cute little plant arrived healthy and adapting well.
T
I thought cultures would be harder then established plants. Boy was I wrong. So far out of all my efforts these have shown the most progress.
M
Very good quality
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Already spreading across the tank, in such a short time. Would recommend/10
C
Everything was as advertised. Plant and packaging were perfect. Tried to get another but was out of stock. Laugh out loud. I will be ordering here much more.
K
The plant came perfectly protected and packaged. Super happy with our whole order and will buy from this company again!
N
The plant came in very good and will thrive in my tank once settled. I gave it a 4 instead of a 5 because there was a lot of the plant that was dead when received
C
Definitely legit.
K
They arrived very full of plants!
E
Love this in the foreground of my 20L! Such a nice change in texture
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