- Long, wispy leaves
- Easy background plant
- Great cover for fish and shrimp
Pogostemon stellatus 'Octopus' is very eye-catching due to its long, wispy and bright green leaves. This easy stem plant thrives under low to medium light and provides excellent cover for fish and shrimp to hide out. Once it starts getting established, it can grow quite tall in a short amount of time and may require regular trimming.
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Customer Reviews
This plant is great in two ways:
1. Does well in the 83F of my discus tank.
2. Doesn’t get the black algae other plants struggle with.
I’m enjoying how fast it grows and how it converts from leafy to a long thin octopus look.
And it’s good in both substrate or floating.
It might very well be my favorite plant!
When I ordered this plant, I thought I would want to order more, but didn’t. So glad I didn’t!!! This plant doesn’t stop multiplying and will happily take over your tank, if permitted! It propagates easily, so far I had to remove some from my 55gal and put in my 40gal. And as it establishes, it grows even bigger in diameter. My lord, lol!! Much more than I was expecting. Which is both good and bad.
Plant was in great condition on arrival, I put planted it in my aquarium and it is doing great! Definitely recommend
Plants arrived looking very healthy and arrived quickly!
Pogostemon Stellatus ‘Octopus’ seems like a good plant, but honestly, I can’t really tell yet since I haven’t seen much change. The only thing I really noticed so far is that it felt expensive for the amount I got.
My plants arrived healthy and ready to go. Within the second week I observed new growth. Aquarium Co-op provides excellent plants.
This plant is amazing. Quite a unique structure and just such a prolific addition. It will even show red in the leaves under the right conditions! A welcomed surprise
Ordered a pogostemon, red melon sword and amazon sword and they all arrived looking great using ups 2 day shipping. Really impressed with the simple packaging that holds moisture without having big bags of water. plants are healthy looking with great roots.
Ok, it's really difficult to find a plant I really hate (not counting duckweed), but pogo is just better than the rest. We all want crypts, ferns, swords, but pogo fills out a while area after growing in while leaving plenty of spacing for fish to freely swim through and look fantastic!
I received three rooted plants in one pot. Two went in a tank full of Danio fry, and the third went into a tank with Buenos Aires tetras, which love to eat plants. They are all doing very well, although growing much faster in the shallower tank. The tetras have taken a couple bites out, but prefer lettuce.
