What You Receive:
Each pot contains 1 healthy rhizome with a minimum length of 3 cm and at least 5 leaves, providing a well-established plant ready for aquascaping.
Before shipping, we will remove the plant from the pot and carefully clean it to ensure it arrives in the best possible condition.
What is Bucephalandra sp. "Catarina"?
Bucephalandra "Catarina" is a hardy, slow-growing rhizome plant from Borneo, loved for its compact, spade-shaped dark green leaves that develop a subtle blue sheen and fine pale spotting under good lighting. Like all Bucephalandra, it's an epiphyte — attach the rhizome to hardscape rather than burying it, and it will slowly form a dense, characterful clump. Each plant arrives potted in rockwool, ready to plant or split.
Key Benefits for Your Aquarium
- Hardy and beginner-friendly: thrives in low to medium light with no CO2 required (better colour and a more compact form with both).
- Shrimp- and fish-safe: a favourite in Caridina and Neocaridina tanks, with leaves that gather biofilm for shrimp to graze on.
- Compact and characterful: the rounded leaves and blue-tinged sheen make it a striking detail on wood and rock.
- Attach anywhere: tie or glue the rhizome to hardscape for foreground and midground accents.
- Slow, tidy growth: stays compact and low-maintenance, and propagates easily by splitting the rhizome.
Care Guide
- Lighting: low to medium (higher light deepens colour)
- CO2: not required (beneficial)
- Placement: attach rhizome to hardscape — do not bury it
- Temperature: 22–28°C
- Growth rate: slow
Grown and shipped from Lithuania. Available as a single pot or a value 3-pot pack for larger scapes.