Java Fern Bare Root | Microsorum Pteropus - Low Light Freshwater Aquarium Plant

I bought this plant several years ago. It's still going strong and has multiplied so I now have more of it in other aquarium tanks! It's durable, my fish & axolotls can't harm it, and it looks great. I highly recommend it!

Came in such great condition, much bigger than I expected it to be. Alive and very healthy! My betta is a happy guy.

I’m still waiting on 3 more plants I ordered in the same order. Other than that though this arrived fairly quickly. It was packaged in a sealed plastic bag with no sort of moisture in it, nothing covering the roots to provide moisture, nothing to weigh it down in the aquarium. Just a loose bunch. I assume if it had taken any longer to arrive it would have started to wilt. I’m still happy with it, the plant looks healthy and once slightly buried in the sand of the aquarium the leaves all stand upright. No sign of wilting or dead plant matter. The root area looked nice and strong. I think this plant will have a long life among my Largemouth Bass and Bluegill. I am a little worried about the other 3 plants and how they will fair by the time they arrive.(UPDATE)This plant is doing great. Luckily because it has a sort of root system I was able to get it embedded at the bottom of the tank. I had to move it once because where I put it initially my pet Bass had bumped it enough that it pulled free of the sand. It is nice and healthy, greener than when it arrived, and is doing well just from the nutrients in the tank due to leftover food(worm bits, feeder fish bits, bugs that get in, fish excrement) so as it is I haven’t felt the need for any sort of aquatic fertilizer. I plan on ordering a few more to spruce up the place and I do think that with 3 or more of these that fertilizer will become necessary. Especially after I had to remove the bluegill that was there after the Bass started relentless chasing him and tearing all of his fins up. Less fish = less poop = less plant food.Not related but the bluegill is doing fine in his own 5 gallon tank, seems much happier and doesn’t just stay in a corner fearing for his life day and night. The Bass was initially slightly smaller than the bluegill but started growing very quickly, seemingly a half ounce a day it seemed like, and once he was slightly bigger than the bluegill he became incredibly aggressive and violent towards the bluegill. Just for anyone curious/worried.

Fantastic plant, held together nicely during shipping, everything was alive and well, had good color and size and my favorite was that it was packaged professionally in a sealed bag inside a sturdy box so it had the chance to arrive safely.

The plants came boxed in a tiny smelly box (smell of poop). Once opened, i had to leave in a bucket full of water outside with some sunlight for a few days to get rid of the poop smell. The size of the plants varied drastically. Honestly i would not have minded getting the tiny ones if the vendor would just give two for one since it was so tiny.They are doing fine in the tanks, the brown leaves have not gotten more rampant.So far no snails, no diseases to the fish or shrimp as others have mentioned.Overall complaint is buying 12 plants but really feeling like i bought 5 plants since it would take 3 to 4 small ones to equal the width of foliage of the larger ones...Update: two of the bigger plants are dead, looks like winter freeze burns are just too much to overcome in shipping process. Perhaps the shipper should wrap the plants in more plastic layers during winter months.

Got this and a Java Fern from AquaLeaf Aquatics as a bundle purchase. My previous attempt at getting a Barteri from a different seller ended up with rot. It's probably just bad luck (all sellers seem to have a mix of reviews), but there didn't seem to be any reason for it getting it from my tank and so I was a bit wary about going for internet purchase again, but not finding anything good locally, I went for it.I like that they came with a little root ball that made them easier to plant (remembering to keep rhizomes above the substrate). Been nearly 2 months now and especially the Java Fern is shooting off new leaves all over the place. But both are doing and looking great.

I bought 3 plants from this company at once and had a snail in one of the plants not sure what one it was.

Not what I expected. I received 3 plants -roots with a little soil included however, the plants were super small and not very green. I opened the package as soon as I received it and they instantly started to wilt. I still put them in my turtle aquarium and she seems to love them…ate all 3 in one night lol. I wish they were larger and the roots were longer. Note to self…..you shouldn’t buy “live” plants online because they will arrive half dead!