🌸 Bacopa salzmannii sp. Araguaia (‘Pink’)
Color-shifting stem plant for vibrant aquascapes
Bacopa salzmannii sp. Araguaia (‘Pink’) is a striking stem plant prized for its dynamic color transformation and clean, rounded leaf form. Grown emersed at our Aquarium Plants Factory nursery, it shows green foliage; once submerged, it develops light green to light orange tones that can deepen toward pink to purple under stronger light and dialed-in nutrients. This is a rare collector’s variety with fast growth and refined texture that stands out in mid-ground and background groupings.
🌟 Key Features
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Scientific Name: Bacopa salzmannii
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Common Name: Bacopa salzmannii ‘Pink’ (Araguaia)
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Color Shift: Emersed green ➝ submerged light green to light orange, pink, and purple highlights
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Leaf Shape: Roundish, slightly elliptical leaves for a soft, premium look
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Growth: Fast—readily forms lush bushes with routine trimming
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Placement: Midground / Background
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Rarity: Limited availability in the trade; a standout collector’s plant
🌱 Growth & Propagation
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Difficulty: Advanced
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Lighting: Medium – High (higher light = stronger pink/purple)
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CO₂: Required for best color and compact growth
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Nutrient Substrate: Required (root tabs or rich aquasoil recommended)
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Water Parameters: 72–82 °F (22–28 °C), pH 6.0–7.5
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Can Be Grown Emersed: Yes (emersed = green; submerged = color shift)
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Propagation: Easy by tip and side cuttings; replant trimmed tops to thicken stands
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Care Height (typical): 15–60 cm with trimming to shape
🖼️ Aquascaping Benefits
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Vibrant contrast against green backgrounds; brings warm tones to nature and Dutch layouts
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Rounded leaves add a softer texture between fine needles and broad swords
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Fast growth fills space quickly; ideal for color “bands” or accent bushes
🔎 Variant Note
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This Listing: Araguaia (‘Pink’)—emersed green; turns pink/purple after submersion.
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Also Available Separately: Bacopa salzmannii ‘Purple’ (Singapore/“Deep Purple”)—notable for retaining purple tones even emersed. See our separate listing.
📦 What You’ll Receive
Sold as loose fresh-cut plants, bunched plants, or potted plants:
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Fresh-Cut Plants: Approximately 6 individual, loose-cut stems without root
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Bunched Plants: Approximately 6 stems without root bundled with foam and a plant weight
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Potted Plants: Approximately 6 stems without root potted in rockwool and net pot
⚠️ Disclaimer
Pictures are representative. Color varies by lighting, CO₂, and nutrients. Some transit stress or leaf melt can occur; with stable conditions, fresh submerged growth rebounds quickly. Unless specified as tissue culture, we cannot guarantee plants are free of all pests or pesticides.
🚫 State Restrictions Notice ♻️ Be a Responsible Aquatic Plants Owner.
Certain aquatic plants may be restricted or regulated in some U.S. states. Always check your local and state regulations before purchasing or introducing plants into natural waterways. Never release aquarium plants into the wild.
Handling time for Live Plants orders:
Live plants are shipped from Monday - Saturday if you choose United States Postal Services (USPS): Most plant-only orders can ship out within 1-3 business days excluded out-of-stock, pre-order, or backorder products.
UPS 2-Days and UPS Overnight only ship from Monday-Wednesday to ensure they arrived in the same week. Please be mindful we also have 1-2 business days handling time, so please placed your order on or before Tuesday, the cut off time is 6:00 AM Pacific Time (PT)
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Live Animals are shipped from Monday - Wednesday: Live Animals orders take longer to ship. We only ship Live Animals orders when they can be delivered within the week so they don't spend an extra day in transit on the weekend.
Handling time for Live Animals ranges from 1-5 business days depending on the weather and health of the livestock. We will email tracking information when the order is shipped.
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- We do not accept returns or exchanges for Live Plants and Live Animals
WHAT WE GUARANTEE
24 Hours Live Arrival Guarantee* - In a rare case of live stocks dead on arrival, we must be notified within 24 hours by the same day of delivery. Please take clear photos of the damaged product and send it to us within 24 hours. Live Arrival Guarantee will be void after 24 hours of delivery. All replacements are considered final and we will not replace the replacement.
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- Please do not take picture of damaged plants, or animals in your aquarium. Once they have been introduced to your aquarium's ecosystem. It is no longer covered by our guarantee.
Please be aware that our Live Arrival Guarantee is subject to certain conditions. Specifically, the guarantee will not be applicable in cases where the package is marked as 'invalid address', 'undeliverable' or is 'returned to sender.' This includes situations such as a vacant delivery address, a missing apartment number, or any other issues that prevent the postal service from delivering your package.
It is crucial to provide accurate and complete shipping information to ensure the successful delivery of your order and the applicability of the Live Arrival Guarantee.
Please keep in mind that Live Arrival Guarantee only guarantees that live stocks will be alive upon arrival. We cannot guarantee that you will continue to have success with them. Many factors, including the aquarium environment, water quality, nutrient, temperature, lighting, filter, and CO2 system, can contribute to the failure to grow live plants and live animals.
WHAT WE CAN'T GUARANTEE
Even though our plants are very clean, but we can't guarantee they will be 100% pest-free because we cannot be responsible for your aquarium. Please use it at your own risk. We recommended all customers rinse the plants with clean water and quarantine them before use.
However, plants in tissue culture will be 100% free from pests, algae and never have been contacting with any aquarium.
- Due to the nature of the product. We don't guarantee our plants will be pests free. ( snails, algae, hitchhikers )
- We don't guarantee our plants will be free of pesticides. We use homemade, organic pesticides in our greenhouse to control pests. We do not use pesticides that contain copper. Copper is toxic to invertebrates such as aquatic snails, crabs, shrimps, etc
- We don't guarantee your aquarium success or are responsible for your aquarium inhabitant including but not limited to fish, shrimp, snail, turtle, etc. So please quarantine all plants when use!
- Unless specific, we don't guarantee aquatic plants will be grow emerged or submerge.
Please review your state's regulations on restricted plants, as we are committed to not shipping plants that are restricted in your area. Do not release any plants into the wild or waterways, as this can harm local ecosystems by introducing invasive species.
Your cooperation in protecting the environment is appreciated. For continuously updated information, refer to the USDA State Noxious Weed list here.
Thank you for your responsible commitment to environmental preservation.
Customer Reviews
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Many stems, healthy, excited to grow immersed.
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They were perfect
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high tech tank. (high light, co2, twice a week fert), if you look to the left, i even get the ludwigia white to have a strong white/pink coloration after 3 weeks (still transitioning). this bacopa plant is healthy, the top will turn to light pink color, but cant get it to show a strong purple hue. i think there is a different purple variant that has much deeper color from leaves to the stem.
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great specimen!
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Kind of a reddish purple hue on the top leaves. I put some root tabs under it when I planted and forget to fertilize it very regularly. CO2 and a strong light. Fluval stratum soil.
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This is the second time I’ve purchased Bacopa salzmanii ‘purple’ from APF - the first time I killed it with a bleach dip trying to get rid of staghorn algae lol. When you get the plant, it’s in it’s emerged state. It will be green. This is normal, guys. Once submerged, with the right nutrients, CO2, and lighting, it turns purple. I promise. It takes awhile, but its worth it. In my tank, it turns a dusty dark mauve-ish color on the tops of the leaves. I plant it where it will get the most light right under my strip light.
Pictured here, with the danio, is the salzmanii that I received a week ago. No melt, strong and healthy. No purple yet, but it literally takes months.
The second photo I’m attaching is from a plant I got months ago. It is the remnant of my first order showing the change to purple. This plant was propagated from a tiny cutting that I salvaged after killing most of it with bleach. No filters, no editing. It’s purple and still being propagated from that 1” cutting I salvaged. Oh this is even without CO2 btw, this is in my low tech shrimp tank.
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