🌸 Rotala Mini Butterfly – Compact & Colorful Stem Plant
Rotala Mini Butterfly is a rare and beautiful stem plant prized for its delicate, small leaves and vibrant coloration. Known for its compact growth pattern, this plant transitions from bright green to shades of pink and red under strong lighting and CO₂ supplementation, making it a favorite choice among aquascaping enthusiasts who want a pop of color in their layouts.
🌟 Key Features:
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Scientific Name: Rotala sp. "Mini Butterfly"
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Compact Growth: Features tiny, narrow leaves that grow closely along the stem, creating a refined and elegant look.
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Vibrant Coloration: Transitions from green to pinkish-red hues with the right balance of lighting, nutrients, and CO₂.
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Great for Aquascaping: Works beautifully as a midground or background accent, especially in nano and high-tech tanks.
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Fast Grower: Responds quickly to good care, making it easy to propagate and maintain a lush grouping.
🌱 Growth & Propagation:
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Lighting Needs: Moderate to high lighting recommended for vibrant coloration.
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CO₂ & Fertilizers: Strongly benefits from CO₂ injection and nutrient-rich water.
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Growth Method: Submersed stem plant.
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Nutrient Substrate: Not required, but nutrient-rich substrate helps with growth.
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Can Be Grown Emersed: Yes – can adapt to emersed growth in humid conditions.
🖼️ Aquascaping Benefits:
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Adds fine texture and soft color contrast in planted tanks.
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Ideal for Dutch-style aquascapes, nano layouts, or as a colorful accent in Nature-style tanks.
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Dense grouping provides cover and natural shelter for small fish and shrimp.
📦 What You’ll Receive:
Sold as loose fresh-cut plants, bunched plants, or potted plants:
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Fresh-Cut Plants: Approximately 6 individual, loose-cut stems without root
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Bunched Plants: Approximately 6 stems without root, bundled with foam and plant weight
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Potted Plants: Approximately 6 stems without root, potted in rockwool and net pot
⚠️ Disclaimer:
Rotala Mini Butterfly may arrive green when shipped. With proper lighting, CO₂, and nutrients, the pink and red coloration will emerge over time.
🚫 State Restrictions Notice ♻️ Be a Responsible Aquatic Plants Owner.
Certain aquatic plants may be restricted or regulated in some U.S. states. Always check your local and state regulations before purchasing or introducing plants into natural waterways. Never release aquarium plants into the wild.
Handling time for Live Plants orders:
Live plants are shipped from Monday - Saturday if you choose United States Postal Services (USPS): Most plant-only orders can ship out within 1-3 business days excluded out-of-stock, pre-order, or backorder products.
UPS 2-Days and UPS Overnight only ship from Monday-Wednesday to ensure they arrived in the same week. Please be mindful we also have 1-2 business days handling time, so please placed your order on or before Tuesday, the cut off time is 6:00 AM Pacific Time (PT)
Handling time for Live Animals orders:
Live Animals are shipped from Monday - Wednesday: Live Animals orders take longer to ship. We only ship Live Animals orders when they can be delivered within the week so they don't spend an extra day in transit on the weekend.
Handling time for Live Animals ranges from 1-5 business days depending on the weather and health of the livestock. We will email tracking information when the order is shipped.
Free Shipping: We offer Free Shipping on eligible orders.
- Free Shipping will take 2-5 days to reach you
- If your orders included Live Plants & Live Animals. We will combine the shipment and you will see the flat rate shipping cost at checkout
- Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and US Virgin Islands customers are not qualified for the Free Shipping program. Please upgrade to Expedited or Express Mail for faster delivery.
Delayed Parcels: Sometimes your packages may take longer than normal to arrive with U.S. Postal Service or our chosen courier. We are legally obliged to wait 15 working days (3 weeks) for a package to be considered lost. See U.S. Postal Service website for further detail.
- We cannot be held responsible for any delay caused by U.S. Postal Service but if your packages were lost by the courier service, we will issue a replacement by 50/50, which means we pay 50% and the customers pay 50% plus shipping for the replacement orders.
- Please always keep your shipping address up-to-date! ( Debit and Credit Card, Paypal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Shopify Pay, Ali Pay, and other payment processing services )
- Any shipment being refused or shipped back to us by providing a wrong address or other reasons will not be refundable.
Cancellations: We understand sometimes thing goes out of control.
- Please contact us ASAP if you want to cancel your orders. Orders only might be canceled if they are not being shipped by shipping couriers.
Return Policy: All sales are final
- We do not accept returns or exchanges for Live Plants and Live Animals
WHAT WE GUARANTEE
24 Hours Live Arrival Guarantee* - In a rare case of live stocks dead on arrival, we must be notified within 24 hours by the same day of delivery. Please take clear photos of the damaged product and send it to us within 24 hours. Live Arrival Guarantee will be void after 24 hours of delivery. All replacements are considered final and we will not replace the replacement.
- Picture requirements: Take at least 2 clear photos of damaged product in their original, unopened & sealed transparent packing and send photos and orders information to our email within 24 hours: aquariumplantsfactory@gmail.com
- Please do not take picture of damaged plants, or animals in your aquarium. Once they have been introduced to your aquarium's ecosystem. It is no longer covered by our guarantee.
Please be aware that our Live Arrival Guarantee is subject to certain conditions. Specifically, the guarantee will not be applicable in cases where the package is marked as 'invalid address', 'undeliverable' or is 'returned to sender.' This includes situations such as a vacant delivery address, a missing apartment number, or any other issues that prevent the postal service from delivering your package.
It is crucial to provide accurate and complete shipping information to ensure the successful delivery of your order and the applicability of the Live Arrival Guarantee.
Please keep in mind that Live Arrival Guarantee only guarantees that live stocks will be alive upon arrival. We cannot guarantee that you will continue to have success with them. Many factors, including the aquarium environment, water quality, nutrient, temperature, lighting, filter, and CO2 system, can contribute to the failure to grow live plants and live animals.
WHAT WE CAN'T GUARANTEE
Even though our plants are very clean, but we can't guarantee they will be 100% pest-free because we cannot be responsible for your aquarium. Please use it at your own risk. We recommended all customers rinse the plants with clean water and quarantine them before use.
However, plants in tissue culture will be 100% free from pests, algae and never have been contacting with any aquarium.
- Due to the nature of the product. We don't guarantee our plants will be pests free. ( snails, algae, hitchhikers )
- We don't guarantee our plants will be free of pesticides. We use homemade, organic pesticides in our greenhouse to control pests. We do not use pesticides that contain copper. Copper is toxic to invertebrates such as aquatic snails, crabs, shrimps, etc
- We don't guarantee your aquarium success or are responsible for your aquarium inhabitant including but not limited to fish, shrimp, snail, turtle, etc. So please quarantine all plants when use!
- Unless specific, we don't guarantee aquatic plants will be grow emerged or submerge.
Please review your state's regulations on restricted plants, as we are committed to not shipping plants that are restricted in your area. Do not release any plants into the wild or waterways, as this can harm local ecosystems by introducing invasive species.
Your cooperation in protecting the environment is appreciated. For continuously updated information, refer to the USDA State Noxious Weed list here.
Thank you for your responsible commitment to environmental preservation.
Customer Reviews
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L
The plant I received looked nothing like these photos. I wish I would have taken a picture when I received it. This plant didn’t make it. There wasn’t enough to it. I planted it, but it just disappeared. I need plants that are a little more robust.
T
Fast shipping. Still had moisture in the bag so it didn't dry out. I got them in the tank and they look amazing!!
C
I’ve had my eye on butterfly for awhile. I’m so glad I finally just bought it. The picture shows it in my high tech tank after a week.I’m beyond impressed with the health and vibrancy of this plant. I got a bunch of stems with each order, too. I’m really in love with how purple this guy looks.
J
Plant arrived looking great, very happy with it. the green leaves with red underside is a lovely contrast. My stems arrived in perfect condition, within a week had started growing and I just gave them a trim already to plant the tops and start making the rotala thicket a bit denser. Very pleased.
J
Stems weren't completely straight. I ended up trimming into multiple, straighter pieces so not a problem. It arrived happy and healthy and started growing right away so I just had twice as much plant to work with.
P
Some plants looked very nice. Butterfly plants were hammered.
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