Can anyone identify these plants please?

(For some reason, I have a feeling Fern can)

This tall red one (the red one behind it is fake, not wrried about that one, lol)



and this tall fern looking thing (there are two of these)

The first one is a lily bulb, I have it and can't remember the name either You can either let it grow to the surface or you can train it back to be short if you just keep trimming the shoots down. That's the way I keep mine other wise it takes too much light from the other plants.
Its a mid light plant that works well mid tank, it really doesn't need anything special for it to do well.

the second one is a african fern. i forgot the real name. ill find out soon enough. i have some.

Bolbitis heudelotii

thanks you two! now, other than pruing/training the lilly, is there anything special I need to do for them? Im use to amazon swords and not familiar with any other plants.

lol, I was just looking for info on the african fern on google, and came across a forum with three comments about it, this one cracked me up!!

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A long time ago I bought a little sliver of African Water Fern for $10 to put in a 20 gal. with a HOB filter and plane rock gravel tank I kept in the window. It grew like crazy! I gave some to my brother, sister, and neighbor. All three of their tanks were kept up just enough to keep the fish alive. Again the plant took off. So much so my neighbor was periodically trimming it back and throwing it away. I later put a piece in a well kept, dosed, planted aquarium and it barely grew, if at all. Bottom line: African Water Fern thrives in crappy conditions!

let it do its thing for a while then slowly start trimming a leaf at a time down to the bulb. you need to wait for a new leaf to sprout between each trimming or you will damage the plant. Let it get its roots spred for a while before you start training it though.
I will post a pic of my trained one tomorrow once I scrape all the algae off the glass

And thats what it looks like when trained into a short bush.

Thank you Fern!

Let it get well established before you start training it though. I didn't mess with mine for a few months after I got it. I only ended up training it because I had a massive duckweed out break in that tank so I had to get it off the surface.

I have one of the lily bulbs in my 90, if you let it go crazy it has a really pretty pink bloom.

the first one looks to be red tiger lotus, and the second looks to be peacock fern wish is a true aquatic plant.. that is just my opinion I could be wrong.