A week later update

[16gallontanker]

My red tiger lotus is growing more leaves now here's a pic of what it looks like now 7 days from the last update.

 

[BigDog]

Your lotus plant is coming a long nicely

 

[jaylach]

While, in my case this may have just been a fluke, do not cut off all the runners that will eventually put what are like Lilly pads on the surface. My lotus had, I think, five such runners which totally cut off light for other plants. I cut off the runners and about two weeks later the plant was dead.

 

[16gallontanker]

All my other plants are low tech plants so it should not be a problem if I leave the leaves on the surface when it gets alot larger.