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
This is my 3rd try with this plant. The first 2 from another company, bulbs where kind of soft, no leaves had to guess which end up. Not these, solid bulbs with leaves and roots. They stayed down half in substrate and didn't float away. So feeling good about these!!
arrived way larger and healthier than expected!
This plant just took off! I gave it a substrate tab and it is growing every day. I had an older lotus that was struggling (from lfs, not here) and wasn't sure about buying this...but it is making me so happy. Will buy again.
Came with healthy looking roots, one tiny healthy looking leaf, and a couple damaged tiny leaves. Planted it in my tank right away. I'm waiting to see if it bounces back. It's only been a short time since I received it. I definitely want to order more plants from this seller. Hopefully they will have larger specimens in stock soon.
Ive had it only a few weeks now and it was small when I got it and now it has tripled in size and has new runners and one has already reached the surface, waiting for it to open!