Labisia Emblem Mata Urnulata Green

Add natural beauty to your aquarium with the Labisia Emblem Mata Urnulata Green.

Key Features

• Live aquatic plant suitable for freshwater aquariums
• Helps maintain water quality by absorbing nitrates
• Provides shelter and habitat for fish and shrimp

Keeping Labisia Emblem Mata Urnulata Green in Singapore vivariums

This Labisia is a terrestrial rainforest understorey plant rather than a submerged aquatic, so we always grow it emersed in moist, well-drained substrate inside a covered vivarium or paludarium margin. Its low, rosetted foliage thrives in the diffuse light and constant moisture our tanks already enjoy, and it appreciates being kept out of direct, harsh lighting where the leaf edges can scorch and curl.

Singapore’s naturally high ambient humidity works strongly in your favour here, often letting you maintain the damp, still air this plant prefers with only a fitted glass lid and occasional misting. We pot ours into a loose, airy mix that drains freely, since stagnant waterlogged roots are the usual cause of decline. Bright indirect light, gentle airflow and stable warmth in the high-twenties keep new leaves emerging steadily.

Browse our wider live plants range to pair it with mosses and ferns, and read our tropical vivarium plant selection guide alongside the paludarium step-by-step walkthrough before planting your emersed section.