# Barclaya Longifolia: The Red Crypt That Flowers Underwater I bought my first Barclaya longifolia because the aquascaping forums wouldn’t shut up about underwater flowers. My daughter had been pestering…
# The Definitive Ranking: Best Red Aquarium Plants for Your Tank Right, so we finally sat down and hammered this out. Took us four sessions, two proper arguments, and Juan…
# Hygrophila Pinnatifida: The Brownish Red Plant That Grows on Hardscape I’ll admit, the first time someone told me about a plant that could grow both in substrate and attached…
# Cryptocoryne Wendtii Red and the Low Tech Red That Doesn’t Need CO2 I spent six months trying to find a red plant that would actually stay red in my…
# Ludwigia Repens and the Red Plant That Actually Stays Red Under Basic Lighting I spent three months troubleshooting why every red plant I tried turned green within a fortnight.…
# Red Root Floaters and the Only Surface Plant That Gives You Actual Colour I’ve kept a lot of floating plants over the years. Started with the usual suspects when…
I picked up my first Ludwigia Super Red because I was tired of explaining to my kids why our “red” plants kept turning green. They’d peer into the tank and…
I bought my first pot of Rotala Blood Red because the photo on the website looked impossible. Deep crimson leaves that seemed to glow from within, like someone had backlit…
# Echinodorus Red Flame and the Sword Plant That Gives You Red Without the Effort I picked up my first Echinodorus Red Flame because I was tired of watching red…
# Rotala Rotundifolia: The Stem Plant That Goes From Green to Red Based on What You Feed It I’ve killed plenty of plants trying to get them red. Spent months…
# Alternanthera Reineckii Mini and the Compact Red Plant That Belongs in Every Nano Tank I spent two years trying to get red plants to stay red in my nano…
# Ludwigia Repens and the Red Plant That Doesn’t Need Expert Level Lighting I spent my first eighteen months in this hobby convinced that red plants were for other people.…
While many reef keepers associate macroalgae with refugiums, not display tanks. Growing it out of sight in its own chamber and utilising it to pull nutrients without competing with their…