How to Care for Pogostemon Stellatus Octopus

Pogostemon stellatus 'octopus' is a fast-growing stem plant that would make a great addition to your next aquarium. Its leggy leaves create dense foliage that provide excellent shelter for nano fish, shrimp, and fry.
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[@AdventuresOutdoors]

This is by far the easiest plant to grow. For the beginner, whats nice is that there is no "Die off" at the beginning like with a lot of other plants. Once it establishes itself it will grow like crazy! I trim mine once every week.

[@meminustherandomgooglenumbers]

Die-off is usually from being grown out of water. Could you have gotten some submerged-grown Octopus?

[@kasperaquatics]

Very informative and detailed information on this plant. Lizzie should be doing informative videos on all species of Aquarium plants.

[@pecal1115]

She will need a pay raise! Haha 🤣

[@TazawaTanks]

She will be making more plant care guides in the future. We have already chosen a few plants to cover.

[@_lucid_one]

This was one of the first aquarium plants I tried and thrived in every condition I put it in: from 76F to 85F, with and without CO2 injection, with and without aquasoil and from low to high lighting. I often gave away trimmings to my aquascaping and aquarist friends who went on to have similar success. All this from one, original order for this plant from Aquarium Co-Op. Great plant and a great source too. Good to see a new face and voice for Co-Op, keep up the great work!

[@CentreShallRise]

I bought one pot of this 2 years ago. Trimmings have ended up in almost all my tanks. It can become a monster plant very quickly. Great bang for buck if you want a fast growing plant that will help keep tanks balanced and keep making more of itself. Mystery snails decimated it in one of my tanks. I think the leaves are a little easy to rip off the stem and the snails cruising all over them for a few months did a lot of damage. But, since I still have an abundance of trimmings, I can start over quickly.

[@adriad4855]

This is literally the only plant I've been able to grow successfully!

[@marybethstevens5574]

Here's why this video was great in my opinion: we got to hear Lizzie's real person voice. She shifted from her sweeter presentation voice into her real person voice about halfway through or so. My hope is that she continues to use this real voice in all her future voice over work too. Her presentation voice is much too stilted to sound like she'a comfortable. Always a fan; keep up the great work!

[@shellybaker3670]

I bought this a couple months ago from aquarium co op and I love it

[@ccsorn]

Always loved this plant. Works great in the substrate but does very well floating.

[@ScruffyCityAquatics]

Great video! I love that you are doing spotlight videos. I bought this plant from the co-op many months ago. It did take a little while to take off, but now that it had I am either throwing it away or giving it away at local club meetings. It is fantastic for keeping your water clean, and it looks nice too.

[@jawjagrrl]

Added one from the Coop to a 55. Reached the top in 2 weeks, covered 3/4ths of the top of the tank in 6 weeks. At 8 weeks pruned enough to cover the surface of a 75 and there's still way too much in the 55! It is my go-to for fry as they thrive in the surface branches of this plant (water Sprite 1st runner up for baby fish when floated).

[@stoneysscapes7544]

@ 1st I was sure the voice was computer generated . Until I saw it's Lizzie ❤️ Love her sweet laugh

[@rudybriskar5267]

Glad I'm watching this. I just received two from Aquarium Coop today.

[@lewashcliffe]

I love my Pogo! But, we did have a very rocky start. I purchased two nice plants from Aquarium Coop for my 29 gallon aquarium with Eco complete substrate. My setup was a Petco Aqueon Kit with hood light. After a couple of months of constantly having to replant as it just didn't want to take root, I was almost ready to throw it out. It was down to two very small sparse growths, in spite of using both Easy Green and Root tabs. In fact none of my plants were really doing great. Finally, I purchased a Stingray 2 light with a glass cover, got rid of the hood, and within a month, Pogo was actually staying in the substrate and growing. Now, just 3 months later, it is a hearty, thriving beast, along with my other plants. In fact, I've been very successful with transplanting pieces of it as it overgrew quickly, and I now have the lush healthy jungle I've always wanted, and my fish are very happy and healthy. Lighting makes all the difference!

[@da5kidd]

I am starting to enjoy her

[@jersey8382]

THANK YOU! I was looking videos on this on aquarium coop website and I love this. Thx Lizzie ♥This can really boost the information both on KZbin and the store for people wanting information for one specific plant.

[@StaceyHerewegrowagain]

Love this plant! Thanks for sharing all your knowledge! Aquarium co op has the best plants for any aquarium!

[@Acepilot2k7]

I was doing well with this plant for the past 2 months. But last week, a hairy string algae started growing from the leaves. Anything I can do stop the algae? I have a 29 gallon with sand over eco complete soil. I use 3 pumps of easy green weekly after performing water changes. I used root tabs 2 months ago when it was planted. Light is on a 8 hour timer but gets some sunlight during the day. Tank is stocked with 3 guppies, 1 Molly, 2 nerite snails and one juvenile bristlenose Pleco. Any advice is appreciated, thanks.

[@bunnyviperaquatics2108]

Try avoiding the natural sunlight & cut your light hours down to six. This is the first thing I would try. Depending on the algae type, & your inhabitants, you can find certain fish that eat algae, like Florida Flag fish, for example. You can also remove the plant & give it a two minute dip in hydrogen peroxide, & remove what algae you can with your fingers. But cutting your lights duration down is the first thing you should try to restrict algae growth. Hope this helps- Good luck!

[@Yonatan24]

I had this issue, it decimated my PSO. I think the cause was a lack of nutrients since it grows so fast. It breaks down its old leaves for new growth and algae eats the dying leaves.

[@Acepilot2k7]

@@bunnyviperaquatics2108 thank you.

[@Acepilot2k7]

@@Yonatan24 could be. Mine tripled in size and was doing great but maybe it ran out of nutrients in the substrate or to much nutrients in the water allowing algae to grow.

[@Acepilot2k7]

@@bunnyviperaquatics2108 do you think adding more plants will help in case there is to much nutrients in the water column? Currently I have 5 plants. 1 of Pogostemon, 1 Amazon sword, 1 Java fern, and 2 cryptocoryne lucens.

[@bunnyviperaquatics2108]

Wait- why did you put a root tab in the rock wool?! Remove rock wool, add root tab to soil. I enjoyed the video and all of the information. I own several & they are fantastic. Thanks Lizzie

[@Toeski]

This "hack" was one Cory showed in the "5 Tips to Make a Good Aquarium Even Better" video on the main channel a couple weeks ago. Check the 1:32 mark he covers it.

[@ndbyers23]

Lots of beneficial bacteria in the rock wool.

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

what sort of guppies are they

[@sarahwoodring5587]

Great video! I've never had success with this one; does it like softer water?

[@GlassSurfing]

Does fine in my ridiculously hard water, got mine from AC

[@AquariumCoop]

I've found it does well in either. I have hard water in the new fish room and this plant is taking over.

[@ScruffyCityAquatics]

I bought mine from the co-op and it does well on my hard water.

[@sarahwoodring5587]

Sounds like I'm just doing something wrong! I've tried it in several tanks and my mini porch pond and it's fallen apart every time. Black Thumb strikes again! 😂

[@ScruffyCityAquatics]

@@sarahwoodring5587 did you try root tabs?

[@tyvi87]

Seems like I should consider your advise. I put it along with my Rotala Orange Juice.

[@stephennelson4964]

This was a very well done plant showcase. Makes me want to try it out while I’ve always over looked this plant

[@subungulate]

Purchased from the Aquarium Co-op. It’s like a weed and of all the “easy” to grow plants, it’s the easiest for me.

[@sandradolbel2578]

one of favorite plant's. it's in all my aquariums

[@besthobbit]

I love mine. I need to trim it and spread it around some more.

[@snipernote]

i have been looking for this plant name for so long ... thank you for the information !!!!

[@mustanglovernutnate9188]

How do you get it to grow out of the water? Mine reached the top and just started growing sideways on the surface lol I'd love for at least one to shoot out of the water Thanks!

[@HeRo-qd6tk]

I like it. Someone gave me a bunch. Let's see if it likes my water. TY for the informative vid.

[@ndbyers23]

Lizzie, thanks so much for a great video! Can you tell me what the red plant is in the back and the smaller green plant in the front of the rocks is?

[@Toeski]

Definitely going to give this a try in my next tank! Would like to see a car video for scarlet temple

[@craighalstead680]

I love the plant videos! They are helpful for finding new plants to try on my tanks! Any advice on how to keep this and other floating plants alive? I can't seem to keep any floating plants alive!😢

[@chaos5567]

I bought mine but the stems at the bottom are dying,,what do i do

[@huntermclaren322]

Great video! Thanks for the info

[@rickyscott4738]

Hi! I've been having a problem growing my pogostemon stellata octopus, since all my snails keep chewing at the stems and killing it. I have a busy community tank, so is this because they aren't getting enough food or is this a tank problem?

[@alcid2466]

I'm getting black algae on some parts of my optopus.any suggesting how to avoid that anyone

[@catfishcave379]

Mine always gets hair algae. Grows like a weed but gets covered in hair algae. No other algae in the tank.

[@midnull6009]

...no co2 required. These grow like weeds!!!

[@jamesclough2638]

Mine all died

[@ndbyers23]

Try floating it in the tank. Don’t plant it, just let it grow there.

[@CanFly2798]

This is the only plant I cannot grow. 😅

[@NEnigma777]

Why do all you KZbinrs have anorexic looking pogostemon octopus plants? Mine are so bushy and tall. Either you guys aren’t giving it extra minerals and lighting or you’re buying from a bad seller. I bought mine off of plantfactory on eBay and they are growing insanely fast in just two weeks. They also looks healthier than yours (no offense).

[@BittysFishRoom]

I keep trying it…I think my ph is too high. 8.4. All stems just melt to nothing. 🥲🥲🥲

[@ndbyers23]

I have very hard water. What type of substrate do you have?