Alternanthera reineckii 'Rosanervig'

Alternanthera reineckii

An intensely red cultivar of Alternanthera reineckii with a distinctive leaf pattern: the tissue around the veins is lighter than the rest of the blade, ranging from deep pink to ruby red. Also sold as 'Red Ruby'.

Light: medium
Difficulty: medium
Height: 5 – 60 cm (2 – 24 in)
Temperature: 4 – 30 °C (39 – 86 °F)

Leaf colour: green, red, pink or purple +1 green, red, pink or purple, bronze or brown
Plant type: stem plant
Growth rate: medium
CO₂ demand: medium
Tolerates light: medium – high
pH: 5 – 7
Carbonate hardness: 0 – 14 °dKH
General hardness: 0 – 30 °dGH
Placement: background, midground +4 background, midground, Dutch street, nano tank, foreground, red accent
Propagation: cuttings, division +1 cuttings, division, daughter plants
Grows emersed: yes

Appearance

The tissue around the midrib and the larger side veins is lighter than the rest of the leaf blade — ranging from deep pink to ruby red. Height 10–40 cm, plant width 5–10 cm. It grows more compact and slower than the large cultivars of the species, resembling 'Mini' in this.

Keeping

Light medium to strong, CO₂ 20–40 mg/l, temperature 17–25 °C.

Placement

A red accent for the midground and foreground, suited to a nano aquarium.

Trade names

Also found in the trade under the name 'Red Ruby'.

Water conditions match

The water suits 841 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.

Butterflyfish Julii Corydoras Red-finned Parotocinclus Gastromyzon monticola Egg-shaped Goldfish Flame Tetra Gardner's Killifish African Tetra Hypsolebias picturatus Common Zacco Labeo Bicolor Gambusia Flying barb Gastromyzon scitulus Albino Zebra Danio Geophagus Brokopondo Homaloptera bilineata Red-tailed Rasbora Boraras naevus Lampeye Killifish Spotted Raphael Catfish Corydoras melanotaenia Festivum cichlid Pseudomugil paskai

Will eat this plant

These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.

Bengal Loach Zebra Loach Burmese Border Loach Emperor Botia Marbled Headstander Pellegrin's Leporinus Leporinus striatus False Black Tetra Common Metynnis Mylossoma duriventre Red Whiptail Catfish Moonlight Gourami Melanotaenia parva

Will uproot it

These species dig through the substrate and pull rooted plants out.

Marble Loach Peacock Eel Forktail Loach Guntea Loach Long-nosed Loach Horseface Loach Pearlscale Black Moor Goldfish Shubunkin Painted Pleco Featherfin Synodontis Reddish Mystus Catfish Blue Acara Geophagus altifrons Geophagus winemilleri Pearl Cichlid Red-spotted Cichlid Haplochromis philander Red Chromide Jack Dempsey cichlid

Matching water does not mean the fish will leave the plant alone.

Scientific and other names, conservation status

Other scientific names: Achyranthes reineckii, Alternanthera pilosa petiolata, Alternanthera pilosa microphylla
Alternanthera reineckii: Briq.
Family: Amaranthaceae