Cryptocoryne balansae

Excellent service, plants are well packed and on arrival the plants were healthy will definitely be buying more 👍

Came as well grown healthy clump. Much better than some of the stumpy ones in the shops.

Lovely plant, looks splendid in amongst the other plants in my aquarium, compliments the different leaf shapes, colours and sizes of the other plant species in my dutch style aquarium.

I have ordered these plants twice now. They arrive as a decent size and grow well. I haven’t had any issues with melting. Very impressed.

Beautiful healthy plants, doing well in my aquarium

The plants have been in my aquarium for a few weeks now and are growing steadily.

Very fast delivery, the plants were very well packaged. Great quality healthy plants.

Great service. Great plants as usual

Lost a few of the leaves as it was adjusting to being replanted but after a week, has started to flourish.

Quick delivery and plants well protected for transit
Needed these for the rear of the tank as they were described as growing up to 300mm or more. All previously attempts with Amazon swords had failed miserably. My tank is predominantly planted with cryptocorrinnes and they usually do well
These have settled in very well and are beginning to grow as desired
Would highly recommend the plants and Aqua Essentials

Arrived in perfect condition and is doing well in tank.

Crypt arrived in beautiful condition even with delays due to current situation. 5 stars just isn’t a high enough rating

Underwhelming, a bit small, but they are still alive now so yay......

Crypt melt is real!!! Planted two pots in my low light, non-CO2 tank and within days the leaves were melting and dying back right to the substrate. Two weeks later there is new green growth, the plants have recovered to the same size that they were when I received them (2inch max). These appear to be slow growing, so patience will be required. I've just added root tabs beneath these to aid new growth.

Very pleased with this larger crypt.
Planted it at the back of the tank expecting the leaves to melt but this didn't happen and more new growth already.

Excellent plants and excellent quality as usual

Very healthy plants arrived as promise and well packaged. Nice plants gone well in my quarantine tank.

Ordered 3 pots of this plant, unfortunately let down by courier and didn't arrive for over a week. Nonetheless, two pots were in excellent condition with very healthy plants. The other pot had completely rotted away, not just cryptocoryne melt, but the rootstock as well.

Decent size plant compared to others I have bought previously in terms of number and height of leaves. However about 1/3 of the leaves were damaged and needed removing - leaving me with an average size plant, marginally better than what I can get locally. Yet to see how well it acclimitises...

A fantastic Crypt for filling out a background in a tall tank once grown in, grows faster with Co2 and ferts. It was great condition and delivered quickly as aslways.

Loads of roots on it when it arrived, very healthy looking. Really good size.

All the plants were healthy and various sizes and look great in my tank

Plants arrived quickly and in a fantastic condition once again.

healthy plants and a very good size as usual

excellent quality plants very pleased would certainly use again

well packed healthy and fast delivery thanks -

Good quality plant but just a little disappointed that I only recieved three stems as I would expect more in a potted plant

perfect condition could be little bigger size of leafs

Healthy looking plants, now settling well in the tank. Perhaps a tad less well grown in the pot than I am used to from AE.