JoandWilly Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 Hey does anyone know how to train tiger lotus to grow its leaves to a certain level and not to reach the top of the tank, cause at the moment we cant even feed the fish cause theres to many leaves on the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 The lotus is well known for the large number of runners it produces. I had a large one, and in my experience with the plant I have found they only produce a maximum of three runners at a time, each time a runner is cut from the mother plant, a new one grows. Anywho, as the mother plant sends out its runners, it only grows leaves to the surface and the ones that were down the bottom soon die off (replaced by the runners' leaves). My theory with this plant is that you keep cutting off the leaves that go to the surface it forms a dense bushy plant with leaves close to the ground, along with its runners' leaves. That's what happened with my one anyway...as for 'training' the plant to grow at a certain height..what height do you want them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Lotus and banana plant are water lillies and want to have a floating leaf. The submersed leaves are the imature stage of growth so you are realy fighting against that all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoandWilly Posted September 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Yay our tiger lotus is gonna flower will take some photos when it does :bounce: :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 cool, did you just leave it to grow by itself i.e. not cut any of the leaves off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted September 20, 2006 Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 I have never kept lotus, how do they propagate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoandWilly Posted September 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2006 Yeah just let it grow crazy, snipped the older leaves off as they were getting holy, ours have been propogating by runners, we have 2 smallish ones that will be up for sale soon(just removed the from the main plant and making sure they survive all good so far) and a third has just started to show itself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoandWilly Posted October 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 Our plant is finally flowering will post some pics tonight when i get home.!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PENEJANE Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 what does this plant look like? I wouldn't mind one for our 6ft when we move to our new house (have to find one first haha) as the 6ft tank is going to be my main display tank in the living room. Its an odd shaped one where its 2ft tall but only 1ft deep so its rather narrow but I think one of them plants would make an awesome centre plant Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilknieval69 Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 ahh you tried google......? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PENEJANE Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 yes I went straight there after doing this post. There seems to be a lot of variant in the same type of plant. Some are very green with light red specks while others are very red with a bit of green specks in them. Still an awesome plant that I would love a cutting from. Google is our friend hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 There are 2 varieties of Tiger lotus Green Tiger Lotus (Green with red speckles) Red Tiger Lotus (Red with Green speckles) Both of which I have seen at Pupuke Aquariums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted October 2, 2006 Report Share Posted October 2, 2006 http://www.pets-warehouse.com/plants/plantpic52.htm There's a link to some pics of it. Alan 104 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted October 13, 2006 Report Share Posted October 13, 2006 Any photo's of that flower? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoandWilly Posted October 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 here's the best pic's i could get, it sucks cause its a nocternal bloomer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antwan Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 that's a cool flower, any chance of a tank shot showing the plants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supasi Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 that pretty cool :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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