Adding a little red

[Robert H]

Whats your favorite Red plant?

Here are some of the more unique red plants that you will not find just anywhere:

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Echinodorus evening sun
A new german hybrid sword whose leaves are different shades of red and orange


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Echinodorus kleiner bar
A german hybrid sword with red to bronze coloring

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Red tiger lotus
Tiger lotus is an african water lily with different color variations. This one is blood red.

[tanker]

I cannot post pics but I have some VERY red/pink Macrantia Indica. And 2 Cryt Glasseri.

[Maj0rFiSh]

A new german hybrid sword whose leaves are different shades of red and orange

Ive seen that alot of places....

[daveedka]

Whats your favorite Red plant?

I lack sufficient exprience to really say much, but my red temple is by far my favorite plant, all colors and types considered. nothing grows as vivid or as well as the temple does for me. I also like the brighter reds as a rule, so although there are many beautiful reds available many of them just aren't red enough for my tastes.
Dave

[happychem]

I'm with Dave on this one, lovin' the red temple. It also seems to be a pretty good CO2 indicator. When I've got good high levels of CO2, it's bright, vibrant, and colourful, a truly stunning plant. When the CO2 levels start to drop off the colour fades, still a very nice looking plant but it just looks duller than before.

I'm trying to get some Rotala macrandra growing and it was doing well up until last week. I think that it got shaded and ended up looking, well, crappy.

[Aqualung]

I don't have the high lighting needed for many red types, but my crypt wedtii provides a nice contrast. I also have a reddish colored Hygrophila species that is doing nicely.......which reminds me, I have to go look up which species it is.

[reiverix]

I just added some rotala wallichii and red temple to my tank at the weekend. I really needed some color in there.

[happychem]

Reiver, crank your CO2 and raise NO3 to 15ppm, I found that red temple took a little while to settle in but these definitely helped.

[reiverix]

Will do. Thanks. I also got a hold of some red tiger lotus. They are just bulbs though, so how long until I see something start to develop?

[daveedka]

Reiver, crank your CO2 and raise NO3 to 15ppm, I found that red temple took a little while to settle in but these definitely helped.

On the same note John, If you aren't already supplementing extra Fe you will probably need to. According To the guys at Byerly's our water is defecient. My Fe test kit is backordered, but I know my Red temple, melon sword and red and bronze crypts didn't look good at all untill I upped the Fe a bit. The more time I work with our city water, the more I dream of an old fashioned hard water well ;)
Dave

[happychem]

Well, if it's the same as the one I've got, mine was just sold under the obscure name of "dwarf lily", which I can't find reference of anywhere, but I digress. Mine just sat as a bulb for a good week, but now there are a ton of little leaves starting to grow out. So I guess my answer is give it a week with some good light on the bulb.

[Robert H]

Red temple has always been my favorite red stem plant. One of the easiest red plants to grow.

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Can you name all the red plants in these pictures?

Here is another of red temple

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Here is another common stem plant, you know what this one is?

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[happychem]

I think that the top right is Rotala macrandra. The bottom looks to be another of the Rotala species, but I'm really not sure.

The middle one is too small to tell. The top left, I don't see any red.

[reiverix]

The bottom one looks a bit like my rotala indica.

[racingjason]

I have some kind of red lilly in my tank. That thing is AMAZING! In 4 days it can send a shoot to the surface (85cm) and my fish are hanging out under the lilly pads. I'll see if I can get a good pic tonight.

[Karnaaj]

The easiest way to provide Iron is by usinf fluorite as a substrate.

[NFR-22467-A]

yes, i have a hi-light tank that i will be trying some rotala macandra in... anyone have any hints?

[daveedka]

The easiest way to provide Iron is by usinf fluorite as a substrate.

While this may be true, Flourite isn't an option in my tanks, and therefore does me no good.
Dave