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Amazon Sword (Echinodorus amazonicus)
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| Common Name: |
Amazon Sword |
| Proper Name: |
Echinodorus amazonicus |
| Category: |
Echinodorus |
| Temperature: |
20 - 28 C |
| PH: |
6.0 - 7.6 |
| Lighting: |
Medium |
| Growth Rate: |
Slow |
| Difficulty: |
Medium |
| Origin: |
Brazil |
| Position in Aquascape: |
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Planted Tank Enthusiast
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This plant can also be grown in high light and may also grow at a medium rate.
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Planted Tank Obsessed
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Junior Member
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I had one small plant with 6 inch leaves ,with medium light, DIY CO2...
Its turned into 5 seperate 12+ inch leave plants... Divides Easily, also long flowered Shoots will spur off also capable of becoming new plants. REALLY easy plant..
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local fisherman
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Easy to care of plant. Heavy root feeder, if you give it enough light, it will grow fast. I have it in 15g, but I think it is best suitable for larger tanks.
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Algae Grower
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The Amazon Sword is one of the fewer plants that have been surviving in my tank with surprising resilience. It's been through bouts of algae bloom, really low pH conditions (~6.2-6.5), hard water, and a couple of human newbies at planted aquariums.
All throughout these changes in its environment, it's shown a wide variety of leaf growth and formation. Ranging from long-stemmed wide leaves to long-stemmed shorter leaves and then narrow leaves with no stems above the substrate level.. (??)
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Algae Grower
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This plant is one of the hardiest aquarium plants I have ever had! Back in high school, before I even had a fish tank, I bought one of these at Petco and put it in my 1gal. Betta bowl! It survived in there for over a year, until my boyfriend bought me my first tank. It then lived in the 10gal. with standard aquarium lighting for another year, until I began slowly upgrading lighting, and it is still alive (with 2 offshoots) in my now medium-light tank. It's not huge like it can be, but it has grown runners and offshoots and has bloomed twice. I trimmed off all of the algae covered leaves recently, so it's not big right now but its still kicking! Overall, a great plant that will survive even those new to the planted aquarium- I definitely recommend it (although it is best in larger tanks).
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Algae Grower
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I had three of these on pots on my Juwel 125, eventually had to sell two, as they really grew too big.
The one I have I now prune every two months, and new leaves just keep coming. Each leaf is about 20cm long, and the plant is just amazing to look at.
I do have CO2, but low light, only one 15W tube, but the plant still keeps on growing.
I had it now for arround 2 years, and I think that it will last another two.
A fantastic plant, especially if placed on a pot on a large tank.
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