Leaf colourgreen, pink or purple +1
rosette midground foreground background Conservation status: NT
A pink form of Cryptocoryne wendtii: young leaves are bright pink and fade with age to a flesh tone with green veins. More compact than the ordinary wendtii and grows noticeably slower.
- Light
- low
- Difficulty
- easy
- Height
- 5 – 35 cm
- Temperature
- 15 – 30 °C
Parameters
Plant typerosette
Growth ratemedium
CO₂ demandlow
Tolerates lightlow – high
pH5 – 8
Carbonate hardness1 – 18 °dKH
General hardness0 – 30 °dGH
Placementmidground, foreground +1
Propagationrunners, rhizome division +2
Grows emersedyes
Appearance
Leaves range from light to deep pink, brightest when young. Height up to 10 cm, noticeably smaller than the ordinary wendtii, and it grows much more slowly.
Keeping
It needs more light than the species: in dim light the pink fades, the leaf turns flesh-coloured with green veins, and old leaves turn brown. Water from very soft to hard, pH 5–8, temperature 22–28 °C, CO₂ 10–20 mg/l is welcome. It is sold only as tissue-culture stock — growers propagate it by meristem — and in the aquarium it produces offshoots like other wendtii forms, but after tissue culture it settles in slowly.
Placement
A colour accent for the front and middle ground, and good as a solitary specimen.
Fish and this plant
Water conditions match
The water suits 1007 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.
Swordtail GuppiesCobra GuppyBlood Red MollyButterflyfishRed Zebra CichlidJulii CorydorasRed-finned ParotocinclusGastromyzon monticolaEgg-shaped GoldfishFlame TetraGardner's KillifishAfrican TetraKenyi CichlidCuckoo CatfishGolden SwordtailHypsolebias picturatusCommon ZaccoLabeo BicolorGambusiaFlying barbGastromyzon scitulusAlbino Zebra DanioGeophagus BrokopondoZebra Mbuna
Will eat this plant
These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.
Bengal LoachZebra LoachBurmese Border LoachEmperor BotiaSpined LoachMarbled HeadstanderPellegrin's LeporinusLeporinus striatusFalse Black TetraCommon MetynnisMylossoma duriventreRed Whiptail CatfishMolly sphenopsBalloon MollyLyretail MollyMarble MollyHi-Fin PlatyHawaii PlatyBlue PlatyPintail PlatyBlack PlatyChocolate MollyMoonlight GouramiMelanotaenia parva
Will uproot it
These species dig through the substrate and pull rooted plants out.
Marble LoachPeacock EelForktail LoachGuntea LoachLong-nosed LoachHorseface LoachPearlscaleBlack Moor GoldfishShubunkinPainted PlecoFeatherfin SynodontisReddish Mystus CatfishBlue AcaraAulonocara maylandiAulonocara multicolorAulonocara OrchidGeophagus altifronsGeophagus winemilleriPearlscale CichlidPearl CichlidRedbelly CichlidRed-spotted CichlidChuco godmanniHaplochromis philanderRed ChromideJack Dempsey cichlid