Live aquarium plants
Live aquarium plants compared on the same fields: light, CO₂, difficulty, growth rate, placement in the tank, height and water. Use the filters to narrow the list to what your tank can give a plant, then open a plant for its sources and where to buy it.
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How to choose
Start with light. A plant rated for low light will also grow under stronger light; one that needs high light usually stalls under weak light.
Check CO₂ next. Not needed means the source grows it without injected CO₂; required means the source says it struggles without it.
Pick by placement: foreground and carpeting plants stay short, background plants fill the back wall, and plants marked on rock or wood are tied to hardscape instead of planted in the substrate.
Treat difficulty and growth rate as the cost of keeping the plant: fast growers need regular trimming, slow growers need patience and clean glass.
Frequently asked questions
Where do these values come from?
From the plant profiles of the shops that sell each plant and, where it publishes the same plant, from Tropica. Each plant page lists its sources and marks any value the two disagree on.
Why does one plant show a single difficulty when the shop gives a range?
When a source gives a range, the catalog stores the end that promises less: a plant rated easy to moderate is listed as medium. The same rule makes a moderate to fast grower medium.