California Bundle - 25+ Stems / 6 Species Live Aquarium Plants Package

I am very happy with the package of plants that I received from Aquarium Plants & Pets.The package arrived earlier than expected via USPS. I am extremely fortunate that the Bay Area was not experiencing a heat wave this week as the box was cardboard and not insulated. So if you live in a very hot location, please make sure to bring this inside the house as soon as possible. The plants were inside a gallon sized bag (which was very filled to the brim with plants - a plus!) still moist despite being in the post for a few days. As described, there were multiple stems of a number of the plants.The seller was kind enough to include a page of instructions for the care and maintenance of the plants I received. Per the instructions, the seller recommended that I put these in the aquarium straight away. Because I got home late last night, I quickly drove to PetSmart to pick up some additional substrate. There were six varieties of plants included in my bag.Being very new with my aquarium tank hobby, I must confess I had no clue which plant was what, but 5 of the 6 varieties were clipped together with a metal band which was helpful when I transferred them each into aquarium pots. I secured my plants with some pebble and into the tank (an outdoor 20 gallon container pot with a biowheel filter + water heater) they went. A small suggestion for the seller would be if you could be kind enough to label which bunch was which plant, I think that'd be wonderful - or at a minimum, perhaps a photo array of the plants you put in the bag?I also want to address the conditions of the plants once I took them out of the bag. As expected (and he did warn me in his instructions), some of the leaves did fall out and the plants did look a bit limpy. I checked on the plants the next morning and sure enough, they were starting to perk up. My filter did end up catching some large bits of plant debris that fell out overnight, but nothing that would worry me.I appreciate the seller offering to replace any plants that didn't make the transit. I think my batch will survive (and maybe thrive!) once I give it some time to grow. I will take some pictures of my plants in a week or so once they've recovered from their transit.

Everything arrived in one bag. 5 different plants. You can see the detached leaves inside the bag. I felt like I was sabotaged, there was no way to get them apart without breaking stems. The one was so dead I went to rinse it off and it looked like a pile of needles under a dead Christmas tree.

Everything looked nice vibrant

looked a bit bedraggled when they arrived. hopefully they will perk up some.

Some of the plants came very robust and healthy and some were completely rotten. Wish they would keep different plants in separate bags. Otherwise, came with cool varieties!

Giving 5 stars for now. Arrived on time. 95% alive plants. Kinda ugly rn. Im sure its just the stress from shipping. They have instructions with them, plz read before reviewing. They will help u out, if theyre dead from what i read. Hoping the colors will return once they settle in. Seems like its worth the price. U get quite a bit.

I received my plants 7/5 and just under a week later I am happy to report that most of the plants are acclimating and recovering from shipping.Issues I had with this order...1. The Hornwort was mostly DOA. I trimmed the vast majority off and of the green portion remaining it seems to be doing ok (growing the plant floating).2. The sword that I received had a huge number of leaves and looked beautiful! Except, it had practically no roots left! All but 2 roots were brown and rotted, so I have gently weighed it down and am eagerly waiting to see if the plant survives.2a. The leaves of the sword are the emersed type, so while there were tons of leaves they were mostly useless as the plant will need to grow new submerged leaves. In this set up where the leaves are the wrong type and most of the roots dead, the odds of the plant surviving are against it but only time will tell.3. The description is inaccurate, it lists "Golden Nesaea" as a species in this bundle. What is pictured is Water wisteria and what I received was Rotala Indica, so basically entirely off the mark. LOL4. The Rotala indica and Ludwigia repens were not in ideal condition. Both were somewhat rough looking. The Rotala indica had healthly long stems with live leaves only remaining at the very top 1/8 of the plant, any leaves below that were brown/melting. The Ludwigia repens had very sparsely grown leaves along the stems and many of the leaves contorted/growing in weird directions.The Moneywort looked great and the Crypt as well; however, the Crypt I received was small (just like the picture). The Crypt is also slowly melting, which is to be expected as that is what they do when disturbed/introduced to a new environment.I have observed a lot of new growth on the Rotala indica, Ludwigia repens, and the Moneywort. It seems likely that all the plants in this bundle were kept in highly crowded conditions based on my review of their condition. However, it seems they are improving under my care and I am hopeful that they will all make a full recovery. :)

Las fotos no tienen nada que ver con el fisico, las plantas están muy maltratadas y partidas las raices