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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Will order more!
Posted by JANET PALMER on 9 Mar 2021I'm slowly planting my 55 gallon tank with real cichlid friendly plants. All the plants are healthy, great roots and a very good size. They don't get lost in my tank.
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Plant was in great shape
Posted by Charles Richardson on 4 Mar 2021The plants arrived when I was expecting them to
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Very healthy plants with good color. Nice quantity of foliage.
Posted by Bob Pfarr on 2 Mar 2021Beautiful plants. Could not be happier with them.
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Amazon Sword
Posted by Gail on 1 Mar 2021Beautiful plants! I love ordering my plants here knowing I will receive great plants without snails!
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Amazon Sword
Posted by Anthony Hermans on 15 Feb 2021Plant arrived in excellent condition! After 5 days now it is really thriving.
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Doing Well
Posted by Brandy Linden on 2 Feb 2021So far I really like these Sword plants. They are doing well considering I'm a total noob to aquarium plants. I wanted them to help lower the pH in the goldfish tank. They seem to be hanging in there but not quite as nice as when they arrived. Crosses fingers.
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Amazon Sword
Posted by Nicole on 30 Jan 2021The plants were super clean and healthy when I received them. There was very little melting after planting and they already have several new leaves. I have a 55 gallon tank set up with just LED lights and a weekly dose of liquid fertilizer, nothing fancy. I have a huge dojo loach that likes to uproot my penny wort all the time but the Amazon sword (planted in gravel with a weight around the base) always stays put.
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Amazing Amazon Sword
Posted by Perry deFaria on 26 Jan 2021Only had 2 leaves melting (way less than you can reasonably expect) and all 4 plants were in excellent shape! Delivery was on time!
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Nice Amazons
Posted by Kim on 30 Dec 2020Less full than pictured, but healthy and strong
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nice plants
Posted by J, Robert Stanley on 30 Dec 2020they are both very nice plants medium
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Good looking & seems to be doing good in my aquarium
Posted by Frank VEPLEY on 14 Dec 2020Nice looking
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Excellent
Posted by Jesse o'connor on 9 Dec 2020Nice size, hearty plant. Fish are happy
