Pink/red Foreground Plants For 10 Gallon?

Hi! I'm looking for a pink/red foreground plant to go in my 10 gallon that is fairly easy to care for. Lighting is finnex planted plus 24/7 v2 (customized lighting schedule is below), kept at 78F, internal filter. Stocking is a dwarf gourami and two CPOs. Substrate is flourite black sand mixed with black gravel. Plants I have currently are a few varieties of amazon sword, what was sold to me as dwarf sag but I think is some type of val, and floating and planted water wisteria. 50% water change once a week and dosing once a week with Nilocg Thrive. I have heard of a few plants that could work (crypts/buce) but I'd like to see other's opinions. Thanks!

 

Possibly a red dwarf lilly if it stays compact. They can reach for the surface sometimes tho.

 

Alternanthera reineckiI ‘mini’ (AR mini) and Crypt flamingo would be a good “easy” plant. Another two would be red tiger lotus and aquarium dwarf lily, both can potentially get big, but with constant trimming, it can eventually be “trained” to stay short and compact.

 

Alternanthera reineckiI minI is a great choice. Its undersides always stays red, no matter the light condition, but getting the tops of the leaves to turn red is another story if there's lowlight.

A safer bet would likely be bronze or red crypts. I personally like crypt undulata and crypt wendtiI red.

 

Highly reccomend AR mini!

Another plant I would suggest is some of the reddish bucephlandra available. A lot of them stay small, and can be tied/glued onto small peices of rocks and scattered along the front of the aquarium.


(Tiger lotus never stays compact for me. Even if I train it to grow short, it will happily throw out massive leaves and ruin the aquascape.


Red moss (actually an algae) could work as well, and look great due to its small 'leaf' size... plus does well in lower lighting conditions according to those that keep it.

 

AR minI might get really leggy since your tank looks somewhat shaded.
scroll down a little bit here to see what I mean:
Complete guide to CO2 for the planted aquarium

However it's still probably your best bet. Red plants only turn really red in high tech conditions, but AR minI is one of the more forgiving red plants