Nymphaea Rubra Bulb Dwarf Water Lily Live Aquarium Plants Decorations 3 Day Live Guaranteed by Mainam

Received this plant just over 2 months ago and it's pretty much outpacing every other plant in my aquarium. And even though there are plenty of big paper-thin leafs, their stems actually spread out as they grow leaving my fish plenty of space to dart in between it all. It's a nice change from all of the shades of green my other plants have. Different angles vary from a dull brown to a pinkish red.Overall it's a fast growing, super healthy plant that even my hungry hungry tetras don't seem to nibble on. I did, however, experience one issue when the plant was first introduced to my tank. These bulbs sprout many separate baby plants and a quarter of the sprouts that came up developed a green spot disease that pretty much ate leafs and sprouts within hours of showing up. Anything that touched the green deteriorating areas was swiftly overcome with it soon after. I ended up splitting maybe twelve of the sprouts from the main bulb to protect the more developed plant still on the bulb which led to it growing super well thus far.As for the separated plants, it's really hit or miss unless they've developed at least 4 leafs or more and plenty of roots before separation. And once removed from the bulb, they grow at a much slower rate than any plant still stuck to the bulb. But it was a successful experiment that also worked to keep the green spot disease from claiming the healthiest part of the plant.In the end, I'd totally buy this again. The plant, aside from the random disease that I'm assuming is uncontrollable, is stellar and has made a perfect centerpiece to my heavily planted aquarium.

These plants grow fast! And they are beautiful and get pretty big. For most typical tank sizes this plant should be a background plant. They get tall.One thing to keep in mind. They do NOT like being moved. I have mine planted in gravel and thought these were going to be a shorter plant. Given the photos I saw in the reviews here I thought they would only grow about six inches tall. So I made the mistake of planting them as foreground plants.I have a 20 gallon half moon tank that is approximately 23" tall. Since these plants were being greedy by taking front center stage from top to bottom I decided to move them to the rear corners of the tank. The plants did NOT like that and they lost all of their leaves. But now roughly four or five weeks later they are coming back with a vengeance! The pics I am including are after they've been transplanted. They were twice as tall and a little more lush before I moved them. I'll try to update with more photos at a later time.Since they send out long leaves that reach and float at the top I periodically use aquascaping scissors to cut them off at the base. I actually like the way that they look with the leaves reaching the surface with their long stems looking like tendrils scattered around the tank. But the flat leaves floating on the surface result in blocking light for the rest of my aquarium plants. Plus, I have a feeding hole on the lid of my tank that almost always gets blocked by a water surface leaf floating on top. So when doing weekly water changes I trim the long stemmed leaves at the same time.Currently, I fertilize with Aquarium Co-op's Easy Green All in One Fertilizer and Easy Iron at the same time twice a week. It seems to work reasonably well. Since I have tropical fish I keep the temperature at around 78-80 degrees which it seems these plants need in order to thrive.I would definitely buy more and Mainam's customer support was exceptional. My first order was left on the front porch in December in freezing temperatures. I contacted them and explained what happened and they sent me a replacement, no questions asked.

UPDATED with new pics also- I was so impressed with my first plant, I purchased more. 1 grew, one didn't. I figured it was just a bad bulb, so I purchased another one.... it's molding and doing nothing. The most recent two are also packaged differently, no soil, no sprout like the others. I won't order any more of these bulbs, they aren't the same as my first purchases that were so impressive, and it's a pain to return plants that have been in your tank for a couple weeks already trying to see if they'll sprout. Original bulbs grew overnight and are filling my tank months later, but I haven't gotten a good bulb since. The Java fern on driftwood (I've purchased 3) are beautiful and healthy, I love them. But this can no longer be my source for dwarf lilly bulbs. Two new pics show bulbs not sprouted after a few weeks, one just rotting.I just got this bulb and put it in my 10 gallon tank last night with my betta. It arrived still damp and had one tiny shoot growing out of the bulb. I placed it on the bottom with the growth pointing up, and overnight there is a tiny hair-like growth coming off the shoot. It already wants to grow! I'm hoping to keep some leaves on the surface for my betta, he's already approved of the bulb laying there so now we're just waiting on leaves 🌱Second pic is a month later, it's beautiful