Live Aquarium Hornwort Coontail Plants - Excellent Oxygenator - Easy to Maintain Plant - Removing Excess Nitrates - Promote High Water Quality - Bunch

I received a single plant - all the stems were from the same node.It took quite a while for the packet to arrive, so I expected to see a lot of melting. But that didn't happen. The melting was minimal. After washed, it looked so beautiful right away (see the 2nd photo).I put the entire bunch in a plastic lunch container, filled it with half tap water and half tank water, then closed it with a transparent lid and placed it under a LED light. The Hornwort did not melt in the container. After the initial couple of days, I could hardly find more than a few newly fallen leaves (needles) when doing water change. A few days later I moved the whole thing to where it belongs.Since then, only about two weeks have passed. But I have cut its stems at least a couple of times. With strong light at the minimum of 10 hours a day, I hope it will grow fast.

Hornwort update: I trimmed the very tops of the stems and floated them for a week or two and now I have maybe 3 or 4 living stems that are still tiny but growing. The whole rest of the plant is dead, shed all the needles into the tank and is melting and making a mess. Other plants seem to be doing okay so far.-------Right up top, I think 4 stars for live plants on Amazon is a good expectation. I purchased 3 different plants in one order from this seller, so I'm going to copy the same review to each item. I'll try to update as things grow in.I ordered Hornwort, Java Moss, and Crypt Parva for a new mini shrimp jar. I placed my order on a Saturday evening and I did choose to pay for faster shipping to ensure they had the best chance. To my surprise, the order was filled and shipped Sunday morning. I just received them Wednesday morning and planted everything. It was in a box with a bubblewrap bag with the plants inside. Everything was intact.I received a tissue culture of something for free with my order, not sure what it is yet. Looks green and healthy, we'll see - I sometimes have bad luck with tissues.The hornwort I'm giving 4 stars. It feels strong, but bristly and it's browner than I would hope. Kind of a messy bundle, but it's okay for me because I chopped it into pretty short stems anyways. I expect the color to improve over time, maybe with some trimming and replanting.The java moss also gets 4 stars. It's java moss. Maybe the clump of moss seemed a little small... but again this was a situation where I really didn't need very much, so it worked out. It looks and feels healthy, and it will grow.The crypt parva gets 5 stars. Looked just as good, if not better, than a plant in a bag would look if I drove to my LFS and bought one. Big and healthy and easy to split into smaller pieces. I was worried the crown might be mushy but it's awesome.Overall, my experience is better than I expected. I'll try to update in a few weeks once things settle in, but based on how they look and feel, it would likely be my fault if they died.

The item/water plant, looks a little stressed, but it had been almost a week. The plant looks a dull olive green and wilted. I place it into my pond and I’m hoping it’ll recover. I gently swirled them around my pond, and no leaves came off, so the plant is still strong - just stressed.Update: one month later, plant has been putting off new lush branches since a week in the pond. I have a good feeling that this plant will help aerate my little lotus pond.Update: three months later and plant is thriving with little if any assistance. In these past 3-4 months, I only twice spread the plant out over the surface of the pond so it could get maximum sunlight, and it’s thriving. New branches are a brighter shade of emerald green.

The media could not be loaded. I’m still pretty new to the aquatic plant world but, I was quite disappointed when these arrived. I don’t think they are supposed to literally fall apart from just trying to separate the stems that were a tangled mess. Actually they were falling apart from the beginning, as I was trying to unwrap the paper they came in. Every time I touched them, leaves would fall off and the stem would break into little 1-2 inch pieces.At least 2/3’s of what I received wasn’t even usable. They were brown and kinda slimy .I tried salvaging some of pieces that were at least 2-3 inches tall and looked fairly healthy. We’ll see how it goes.One more thing to watch for is snails. I saw one shell on a piece I was about to plant. I have assassin snails in my tank so I’m not greatly worried. But, if you don’t want them, inspect the plant closely.Update on the plants I tried to salvage.They’ve just completely disintegrated in the tank. I don’t even know how that’s possible. They are a pile of goo in my tank. So greatly disappointed.

The media could not be loaded. So I placed my order on October 4 or 6. I can't remember exactly because it's the 23rd now and I finally received my plants in the mail yesterday afternoon. They were shipped on the 6th. Something happened during their journey that put a halt on their delivery (which was no fault of the seller, it was USPS). I had very low expectations when the days passed by and I knew they were live plants and would surely end up dead. Side note: I bought other plants from a different seller and half of them were dead upon arrival and they only took a few days, a week at most, to get here. So yeah, I was expecting to open a box with rotted plants because it took over two weeks of them being in the mail to finally arrive at my house. But to my surprise, they were still perfectly fine and in great shape. They were sealed in plastic that kept them very moist. They were still green with no signs of decay, which was shocking to me considering how long they'd been in transit. I'm pretty satisfied with my order. And my fish love them! Now let's just hope they stay alive now that I've got them. I'm an amateur aquarium plant owner and still learning, but I specifically bought these because everything I've read says they're easy to grow and maintain. So far so good :) I didn't take an up close photo of them, but I attached a photo of them once they were in my tank.