Red Plants Turning Green

[techen]

So my red plants are growing quickly, But the new growth is green. What turns them red?
 

 

[Livewire88]

High light and plenty of iron in their diet 

 

[Brilly91]

Mines doing exactly the same

 

[techen]

I have light high, I donno about the iron though. But I did start dosing marco ferts.

 

[Ps3Steveo]

Its also a lot to do with CO2 in the water, good CO2 levels help hugely.

 

[ian]

Steve is correct, you can put all the light in the world over a red plant and it will go green. These plants are grown emmersed with an ambient c02 of around 300ppm and go red...we then stick em in a tank and expect them to stay red, with an ambient c02 of around 5ppm. Get the co2 right and add some iron and they should come back to life.

 

[swirve]

Hi techen...what lights do you have on your tank, looks similar to mine...and I'm interested in red plants myself...
 
Dale