Salvinia natans is an easy floating plant that gently shades your aquarium, helping reduce the intensity of bright LED lighting. Ideal for tanks where the light feels a little too strong.
Give your plants everything they need to grow well without pressurised CO2. Neutro Combo is a top seller for low-tech tanks, helping plants stay healthy, grow steadily and compete naturally with algae.
Velvety deep green leaves — popular and easy to grow
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Origin: Europe/Asia
Position in Aquarium: Attach to wood/rock
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Growth rate: Slow
Bucephalandra 'Green Velvet' is one of the most popular and widely kept Bucephalandra varieties, with rich, velvety-textured deep green leaves that have an almost plush appearance under good lighting. It's one of the more reliable and forgiving Buce varieties — a good starting point for anyone exploring the genus — while still offering the characteristic iridescent quality the genus is known for.
Care is straightforward: low light, attach to hardscape, no CO2 required (though it benefits growth and colour). Slow growing and very low maintenance once established. Shrimp are drawn to the leaf surface and coexist well with all Bucephalandra.
Attach the rhizome to wood or rock with thread or aquarium-safe superglue. Do not bury the rhizome.
You’ll receive a healthy, rooted plant in a pot, similar to those shown. Each one is hand-checked before dispatch.
Same-day dispatch on orders placed before 4pm, Monday to Friday. Tracked 24 Service from £4.99, DPD Express from £6.99.
Customers praised this aquatic plant for being "healthy" with "excellent quality" and "great foliage." Shoppers appreciated the "well packaged" delivery and strong root systems. Many noted it "grows well" in various tank conditions, including low light and CO2-injected setups. The plant attaches easily to rocks and features "striking leaf shape" as a "nice contrast to traditional plants."
Nice bush green buce, happy
Great addition and fresh
Excellent quality plant, growing well. Very happy
Well packaged and delivered timely as always from AE. Healthy plant with good growth. Doing great squeezed in between a dragon stone rock fall formation in a CO2 injected tank.
Despite royal mails delay (6 days) all my plants arrived unscathed due to good packaging.
Plants are now in tank doing well
Brilliant little plant this, cannot go wrong with this choice!
Very nicely rooted plants with healthy foliage and doing very well in the tank.
Absolutely beautiful foreground plant with great foliage. Attached to a couple of rocks and already seeing new leaf and root development. Leaf shape is very striking and a nice contrast to more traditional plants.
Gorgeous bright leaves, very healthy and really really big compared to local shops. Got 3 or 4 plantlets from one plant.
Great looking plant with plenty of roots for you to attach to a rock.
Really nice looking plant , planted in a bunch of three. first class delivery
looking very good
Very nice plant looks great tied to a piece of rock
Nice healthy plants really look good seem to be growing well
Lovely plants , delivered to Ireland in good condition.
A beautiful little low light plant, a nice alternative to anubia.
Very quick delivery, well packed no damage and a nice healthy plant. Thank you team
Stunning plant, the one I received was in superb health and a great size
Very pleased with this product! Came day after purchase and was the same size as one in picture. Very good quality and will buy from again!
Costing at the time as much as a bunch of roses for mothers day, however, this is a new plant looks great and as all aqua's plant doing really well.
Yes — it is one of the more reliable and forgiving varieties. A good introduction to Bucephalandra for anyone new to the genus.
No — it grows without CO2. Supplementation improves growth rate and can enhance the leaf colour.
Attach the rhizome to wood or rock with thread or aquarium-safe superglue. Do not bury the rhizome — this causes rot.
Yes — all Bucephalandra are excellent with shrimp. The leaf surface develops a biofilm that shrimp actively graze on.
Yes — under good lighting Green Velvet displays the characteristic Buce iridescence across the leaf surface.
