Red Tiger Lotus- (Dwarf Aquarium Lily)- EASY RED Aquarium Plant
NOTE: YOUR PLANT MIGHT DETACH FROM THE BULB. This is NORMAL and you might grow a second. It will be fine detached. THESE ARE MEGA EASY and HARDY PLANTS.
Red Tiger Lotus are an amazing plant that I really just got into not all that long ago. I love the big red leaves and the unique shape of the plant. As with most red plants, with Red Tiger Lotus, you are going to want to make sure that they have substantial nutrients in their substrate. The better the substrate the better the Red Tiger Lotus will grow. I wouldn't advise trying to keep a Red Tiger Lotus without Dirt or some really substantial root fertilizer.
They say to cut it back so it grows better. I have never personally done this, but it isn't a bad idea for how to care for a red tiger lotus. The Red Tiger Lotus is from west Africa and just looks great as a contrast in you planted aquarium tank. You get so much of an interesting plant with such a great red that I really love this plant.
Red Tiger Lotus is totally a top ten favorite plant of mine.
WARNING- The bulb might come away from the plant. It will be ok and you might get a SECOND PLANT from the bulb. Just plant the newly free plant.
NOTE: These plants are soo phat that I hand wrap them in wet paper so that they are delivered perfectly to you.
This plant might lose a leaf or two in shipping as they are so thin, but they grow back quickly.
*We Do Not Guarantee the bulb will sprout*
The SMALL PLANT will already be sprouted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We'd love to give you an alternative to this plant but there is no alternative to Red Tiger Lotus!
I don't do this will all plants, Ludwigia and Red Tiger Lotus mainly...
Care Scale of 1-10 ( 1 it can grow in your toilet- 10 being nearly impossible)
Red Tiger Lotus is a 3 (it will do better with good substrate)
Lighting:
Can handle super low lighting, grows faster in higher light
Where to plant:
Background, or foreground if you keep trimming it down.
Check out regular Tiger Lotuses too!
Don't Forget To Buy our Growth Juice and Iron Supplements for your plants!!
Customer Reviews
Have ordered plants several times and not many have survived (probably due to my own fault) but twice I had received a Red Tiger Lotus bulb. Seems to be the one thing that will grow in any of my Aquariums. Have gotten 4 plants off the 2 bulbs and another 2 plants are starting on them. The one thing that's so exciting is I have gotten a bud started on one of the plants and can't wait to see what the flower looks like. Here are a few pictures of my tanks. The tank with the bud growing is a 30 gal, the one with the 2 bulbs with new plants starting is a 10 gal, and the last is my 5 gal for my Betta. Can't remember the name of the green plants in the Betta tank, but they seem to like it there. They don't really seem to grow well in the other 2 tanks. Funny thing is I don't do anything different with the tanks. Same filter systems, same water changes etc... The only difference is in my newest the 30 gal I did add a dirt mix in filter bags on the bottom then topped with the gravel, the 5 gal has ocean beach sand and the 10 gal is just store bought sand and gravel. Except for the Tiger Lotus that seem to do well in all the tanks, a plant that does well in one tank doesn't do very well in the other 2. weird.
Plants arrived in great condition
This was my 3rd time ordering from Dustinsfishtanks. My fish and I have been happy with each purchase!
This plant arrived in great shape and had three leaves attached to the bulb. I ended up cutting two and a new leaf opened up just days after adding to my tank. This is my first time trying this plant so I hope it continues to do well.
I was looking for red plants for my tank found them with Dustin Could not ask for more they are beautiful they were shipped safe the plants healthy outstanding service and products. Will be buying more.