Description
Amazon Sword (Echinodorus sp)
Amazon Sword (Echinodorus sp) originates from South America. It’s one of the most common and popular live aquarium plants in the hobby. The popularity of Amazon Sword plants in aquariums can be attributed to their beauty, adaptability, and ease of husbandry.
Amazon Sword will produce dense and large green leaves, providing a beautiful background for your aquascape and making it an ideal plant to be used as a focal point in your aquarium. This plant can also be used to "hide" aquarium equipment such as heaters, filter intakes, and more.
Care & Maintenance for Amazon Sword
Amazon Sword plants in aquariums are not demanding, and they don’t require high lighting. They can be kept in a wide range of aquarium conditions to accommodate most of your tank inhabitants' needs.
- Minimum Lighting Required: Moderate
- Temperature Range: 68-82°F
- Tank Placement: Background
You can plant an Amazon Sword in gravel. No specialized soil is required although it will do much better in a loosely packed substrate. Keep in mind that the roots of this plant can grow to be very large, extending deep and wide in the tank, allowing it to effectively absorb nutrients produced by fish waste. If any of your other plants need room to spread out, you might want to plant them farther apart. Amazon Sword plants will propagate readily in aquariums by spreading runners.
Amazon Sword is also available potted.
Plants at Modern Aquarium
At Modern Aquarium, we strive to bring you healthy, beautiful specimens in every order. While the photos on our website are just examples of what you will receive, we do examine each plant in person before shipping it to you. If you have any questions about what to expect from your order, how to plant your new specimen, or the best starter plants for your tank, reach out to us any time!
Reviews (97)
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Very healthy plants
Posted by Devin Perkins on 17 Aug 2021Plants arrived healthy with great roots and absolutely no parasites on them.
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Great Plant
Posted by Nicole on 11 Aug 2021My plants that came in were awesome! Had great roots, no parasites and were a bright beautiful green. The look fabulous.
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Looks like the photo
Posted by john russo on 6 Aug 2021They arrived healthy. They looked like the photo on the site. Cut a few branches off after about 10 days, Well worth the money.
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good backround plant
Posted by Michael Sachs on 28 Jul 2021good condition
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Amazon Swords
Posted by Unknown on 28 Jul 2021They are bright, beautiful plants. Good, small to mediu size and bright green. Can't wait for them to grow lush and fill out the tank. Thank you.
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Amazon Sword
Posted by Joyce Kruger on 27 Jul 2021Great looking plant! Nice size, perfect leaves. Looks just like the picture! I would order it again.
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Great plants
Posted by Tameka Fox on 21 Jul 2021The swords arrived is great shape and took well to planting. It's been Lee's than a week and they are already growing new leaves and thriving! Shipping was pretty quick, packaging was perfect!
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Plants
Posted by Robert C Allen on 11 Jul 2021All came in great shape, All are doing great so far
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Live Plants
Posted by Marcia Cook on 30 Jun 2021Amazon Sword was received in great condition !!! Very happy.
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Amazon sword
Posted by Eric on 10 Jun 2021Healthy plants. A better value than the big box stores.
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perfect
Posted by logan on 8 Jun 2021my plant came in such good condition! they're bright green and look great in my aquarium.
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Amazon Sword
Posted by Art S on 7 Jun 2021Ordered these some time back when delivery services were impacted by the weather, so some time ago. Despite being delayed by nearly a week, they looked fine when they arrived. MA indicated they should be fine despite the delay - had asked jut before they arrived. Followed the prep instructions and planted in two different tanks - have done well and continue to look good.
