🚚 Free Shipping Across Aotearoa on Orders Over $150 - Exclusions Apply!

🌿 Proudly Kiwi — NZ's Home of Aquascaping Since 2017

Glossostigma Elatinoides Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials)

Fast-growing foreground plant for a low, dense carpet, best with strong light and CO2.

Regular price $21.99
Sold out
Tax included Shipping calculated at checkout.
Tissue culture: Arrives in a densely packed cup.

Ships to New Zealand

Aquarium Plants are typically dispatched within 1 business day. Delivery times vary based on the destination. We do not ship live plants on Friday, unless specifically requested.

  • Free shipping on orders over $150. Not included: rural addresses and bulky items such as aquariums.
  • Under $150, courier is $6.80 to $9.90 depending on region, or $11.50 to $14.90 for rural addresses. The exact cost shows at checkout.
  • Rural and South Island addresses can take a little longer.

Full delivery details

Live Plant Guarantee

We want you to shop with confidence knowing your plants are covered by our Live Arrival Guarantee. Every plant is hand-picked, quality-checked, and packed with care to ensure it reaches you in healthy condition.

Our Promise

  • All live plants are guaranteed to arrive alive and healthy.
  • If your plants arrive damaged, melted, or in poor condition, we’ll replace or refund them — no hassle.
  • Just email us within 24 hours of delivery with clear photos of the affected plants and your order number.

Please Note

  • The guarantee applies only to the initial delivery.
  • Once the plants have been removed from their original packaging or planted into your aquarium, the guarantee no longer applies.
  • We can’t take responsibility for plants left exposed to extreme heat, cold, or direct sunlight after delivery, so please choose a delivery address where someone can receive the parcel promptly.

We genuinely want your aquascape to thrive — and we’ll always do our best to make things right if something goes wrong.

MediumLight
HighCO2
FastGrowth
IntermediateDifficulty

Placement Foreground carpet

About Tissue Culture Plants

What’s the Deal with Tissue Culture Plants?
Tiny plants. Big benefits. Zero unwanted surprises.

Grown in a Lab (On Purpose)
These aren’t your average aquarium plants.

Tissue culture plants are grown in pristine lab conditions — no pests, no snails, no algae. Just vibrant, healthy growth suspended in a sealed pot of nutrient gel that looks like dessert (but please, don’t).

Why They’re a Big Deal

  • 100% algae-free — start clean, stay clean
  • No snails — unless you’re into surprise hitchhikers
  • Pesticide-free — safe for snails and sensitive fish
  • Incredible value — you get heaps of plant once it’s split and planted
  • Long shelf life — lasts weeks sealed in its cup (great for planning your scape)
  • Small in size, big on payoff

How to Use (Don’t Just Chuck It In)
Peel the lid — it’ll feel oddly satisfying

  1. Rinse off the gel (do not plant the goo)
  2. Divide into small chunks — trust us, there’s more than it looks
  3. Plant using tweezers, spaced evenly across the substrate
  4. Watch it take off like it’s been waiting its whole life to grow in your tank

Pro tip: One pot can cover a surprising amount of space — plant wisely and it’ll spread quickly.

Lab Grown, Algae Free, Snail Free.

Grown in sterile conditions with no snails, algae, or hitchhikers — the cleanest start for any freshwater tank.

Great Value in Every Cup

Each tissue culture cup contains multiple portions — simply rinse, divide, and plant. One pot can cover more ground than you'd expect!

Description

Glossostigma elatinoides, or glosso, is a low carpeting plant with small, rounded, bright green leaves on creeping stems. It stays close to the substrate and belongs in the foreground, where it fills in as a fresh green lawn across the front of the tank.

In your tank it spreads horizontally and knits together into a dense carpet. Give it strong light and it stays low and compact, while CO2 and a nutrient rich substrate help it fill in quickly and evenly. A light trim now and then keeps the carpet tight and encourages it to run sideways rather than upward, and as it grows it also takes up excess nutrients in the water. It suits nature style layouts and works well in community and nano tanks.

It is grown in sterile tissue culture and arrives in a densely packed cup, free of snails, algae, pests and disease, for a clean start.

Care at a glance

  • Placement: Foreground carpet
  • Lighting: Medium
  • CO2: High
  • Growth rate: Fast
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Colour: Green

How to plant your tissue culture Glossostigma

  1. Rinse the clear nutrient gel from the base.
  2. Divide the plant into small portions.
  3. Plant each portion into the substrate with tweezers, spaced evenly so they fill in.
  4. Leave the roots undisturbed while it settles and starts to spread.

Specifications

  • NZ Rarity
    Native
  • Colour
    Green
  • 5 stars: 2 (67%)
  • 4 stars: 1 (33%)
  • 3 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
A
Anonymous (New Zealand)
Culture arrived in prestine condition apart from

Culture arrived in prestine condition apart from courier tumbling around and culture been moved around in the tub. But perfect condition sent from the supplier

K
Kevin Emslie (New Zealand)
Another great quality plant

We had a lot of foreground to cover with this plant and was going to order just one pot, but took advantage of the offer and got two - and very happy with the results! The pots are fully packed with plants, and they’re in great condition.

A
Alex (New Zealand)
Forground plant looks great but a bit fussy

Looks 5 out 5 when happy and maintined needs alot of light to look its best and cut down every week to month looks 2 out of 5 when cut and 3 out of 5 when to long so only a few weeks evey month it looks great the rest of the time some ware inbetween. Also when you fist get it and you have plecos be prepared to need to save it from your filter as plecos are bulldozers and can easilly pull it free it takes a we while for the roots to hook into the aqua soil other than that look nice for a carpet plant