How to take care red coloured aqua plants?

[Orion]

T5 would be a better choice.

Thanks. You always give me 'difficult time' to make decisions decisions

[blue33]

Hi bros,
read this thread with great interests as I had recently bought & planted some stalks of Rotala Sp. Red into my Nano tank (10 litres) to introduce some redness into my tank... After some days, I noticed that the new leaves growing out are green instead of red & I think it's due to lack of Iron in my dosing regime... A few questions below:

1) Since it's just a Nano GEX tank, what options (additivies) can I get (what brand & roughly how much it'll cost?) to let the plant gain back its redness?
2) If this tank has shrimps (Cherries, Sakura, Taiwan, CRS) in them, anything I need to take care of or must avoid
3) Just using the default GEX PL light, is it enough to drive or maintain the redness of this plant?
Thanks in advance for all replies!!
Regards.

1) Since it's just a Nano GEX tank, what options (additivies) can I get (what brand & roughly how much it'll cost?) to let the plant gain back its redness?
Ans: For 1ft and below i would recommend at least 18W, ADA mini tank the lighting is already 27W, guess Amano knows it need that much. When you increase light, you need to increase CO2, ferts etc... Rotala needs strong light, iron and potassium to become red.

2) If this tank has shrimps (Cherries, Sakura, Taiwan, CRS) in them, anything I need to take care of or must avoid
Ans: Cherries and Sakura are pretty strong, i using EI method ferts method with high CO2 and they are ok, CRS i'm not sure as i haven keep CRS before so i cant tell you.

3) Just using the default GEX PL light, is it enough to drive or maintain the redness of this plant?
Ans: See Question 1 answer.

how about ottos bro?

Ans: Otos no problem.

Thanks. You always give me 'difficult time' to make decisions decisions

Ans: T5 i think you'll save $ and more efficient and also lesser heat.

Like answering exam question ...

[Flowerhfanatic]

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Like answering exam question ...

thanks consultant!

[beetlejuice403]

1) Since it's just a Nano GEX tank, what options (additivies) can I get (what brand & roughly how much it'll cost?) to let the plant gain back its redness?
Ans: For 1ft and below i would recommend at least 18W, ADA mini tank the lighting is already 27W, guess Amano knows it need that much. When you increase light, you need to increase CO2, ferts etc... Rotala needs strong light, iron and potassium to become red.

2) If this tank has shrimps (Cherries, Sakura, Taiwan, CRS) in them, anything I need to take care of or must avoid
Ans: Cherries and Sakura are pretty strong, i using EI method ferts method with high CO2 and they are ok, CRS i'm not sure as i haven keep CRS before so i cant tell you.

3) Just using the default GEX PL light, is it enough to drive or maintain the redness of this plant?
Ans: See Question 1 answer.

Thanks alot bro blue33 for the exam-liked answers!! Think I'll stick to the original lightset first while seeing if adding the iron & potassium additives are enough to bring out or maintain its redness... [Thinking of getting Seachem's Iron & Potassium, is it good enough?? Will these additives be harmful for CRSs - know CRSs hate copper, how about Iron & Potassium?? ]

Many thanks!!

[Orion]

Inject massive fund to the setup now(read too much financial news). Extra boost :T5 lights, PL lights, new additional substrate, Ferrotabs and fertilizers, new plants, partial real Sunlight (opening for sunlight to penetrate the tank).

If everything OK and up to standard, post the photo next week.

and hey it is still low cost low tech

[Orion]

Orion have you tried stick fertilizer or those root monster inserts?

Will adding just :

KNO3 is potassium nitrate
KH2PO4 is potassium di-hydrogen phosphate

in long term be sufficient?

[Aquaria One]

they also require more iron in their fert regime

[Morgan01]

This was the condition of my Alternanthera reineckii before.


...and since been injection Seachem Iron, LushGro-Micros & Aqua-Gro last 2 week (least 3x weekly) and this has been the result

Thanks to blue33 bro...my plant result after using JBL 7+13 ball fertilizer.

[blue33]

Dont mention Morgan01. The wonder of "JBL 7+13 ball" fertilizer is they will absorb the nutrient and release the nutrient when they found the lack of nutrients in the water, this is good for plant that need lots of nutrients like red plant and crypt.