Cryptocoryne Green Gecko Vitro Culture

Want a Crypt that stays bright green? Cryptocoryne 'Green Gecko' keeps a glossy lime-green with a lightly crinkled leaf surface, where most Crypts run bronze, brown or red. Against dark wood and red plants it reads as a genuine highlight. This is the sterile Vitro Culture® format.

What You’ll Receive

One 4-inch sealed Vitro Culture® bag containing healthy Cryptocoryne 'Green Gecko' plantlets — ready to rinse, acclimate, and plant.

Plant Profile

• Common name — Green Gecko Crypt
• Scientific name — Cryptocoryne sp. 'Green Gecko'
• Also known as — Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Green Gecko'
• Placement — Foreground to midground
• Mature height — 3–5 in
• Growth rate — Slow

Care

• Difficulty — Beginner
• Light — Low to medium. Intense light is not needed
• CO₂ — Not required, though it keeps growth more compact
• Water — 72–82°F · pH 6.5–7.5. Hard water suits it, as it does most Crypts
• Substrate — Required. Root feeder — nutrient substrate or root tabs
• Growth habit — Amphibious. Also grows emersed
• Propagation — Substrate runners

Grower’s Notes

• Green is the selling point. If you already have Wendtii Brown or a red Crypt and want contrast rather than more of the same, this is the one that supplies it — same easy care, opposite color.
• Expect it to melt after planting. Crypts drop their leaves on a change of conditions and rebuild from the roots over two to four weeks. Leave it alone through that.
• Feed at the roots and place it once. Crypts melt again every time they are moved.
• Hard water is no obstacle. Cryptocoryne generally do well in harder water than most planted-tank species — if stem plants have disappointed you in hard tap water, Crypts are the group to try.
• Rinse the gel off completely before planting or it clouds water and feeds algae in the first weeks.

Also available as loose bare-root plants if you want an established clump rather than plantlets.

Want to go deeper? Read our complete Cryptocoryne Care Guide.

Notes

• Images are sample representations. Actual plant size, shape, or color may vary depending on lighting, substrate, and aquarium conditions. Some melting may occur during initial transition to submerged growth.
• Never release aquarium plants into natural waterways.

At a glance

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Good to know

• Some melting or yellowing as plants adjust from greenhouse to aquarium life is normal. They regrow from healthy roots and rhizomes.
• Please bring your package indoors and unpack it the day it arrives.
• Free promotional items and shipping charges are not covered.

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