Utricularia Longifolia Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials)
Utricularia Longifolia Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials) is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Standard Shipping: Orders are typically dispatched within 1 business day. Delivery times vary based on the destination.
- Urban Areas: 1-3 business days
- Rural Areas: 2-5 business days
- Courier Services Used: NZ Post and Aramex.
Free shipping is available for New Zealand customers with a minimum purchase of $150.00.
- Non-Rural Addresses Only: This offer applies only to non-rural addresses.
- Exclusions: Bulky items such as aquariums are excluded from the free shipping offer.
About Tissue Culture Plants
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 shrimp, 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
- Rinse off the gel (do not plant the goo)
- Divide into small chunks — trust us, there’s more than it looks
- Plant using tweezers, spaced evenly across the substrate
- 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.
Utricularia Longifolia Tissue Culture (Aquascaping Essentials) is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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!
Utricularia longifolia, a long-leaf bladderwort, is a carnivorous plant native to South America with elegant, long, strappy green leaves. It carries tiny bladder-like traps that catch microscopic prey, and it works as an exotic feature in paludariums, terrariums and emersed setups where humidity and moisture stay high.
Give it a nutrient-poor, airy medium such as sphagnum moss, keep it consistently moist with soft water, and provide medium light. It settles at a moderate pace and, once happy, can send up delicate violet flowers that look like miniature orchids. It stays low maintenance as long as the humidity holds and the media stays lean.
Grown in sterile tissue culture and packed densely into a sealed cup, it arrives clean and free of snails, algae, pests and disease, giving your setup a healthy head start.
Care at a glance
- Placement: Paludarium and terrarium feature, emersed
- Lighting: Medium
- CO2: Not required
- Growth rate: Moderate
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Colour: Green
How to plant your tissue culture Utricularia
- Rinse the clear nutrient gel from the base.
- Divide the clump into small portions.
- Set the portions into the media with tweezers, spaced so they fill in.
- Leave the roots undisturbed while it settles.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Lighting Demand: Medium
CO₂:
Growth Rate: Moderate
NZ Rarity: New
Colour: Green
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