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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One of the best
One of the best plants specially for beginner tank.
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Beautiful healthy looking plant.
Was so pleased with this plant. When it arrived it already had new growth and roots looked healthy.
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Didn't last a Week
Purchased these for already established quarantine tank with no substrate on the bottom. Added very small split shot weights to keep them from floating. Both after one week already have transparent leaves indicating the plants are dying. --Modern Aquarium reply-- Curtis, we are sorry to hear you had an issue with the Amazon. Please contact us and we will refund you for the plant. That being said please keep in mind Amazons are very heavy root feeders and do not do well without substrate in general. Take care and we hope to hear from you soon.
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Beautiful
Arrived super quick, very healthy and full. For mediums, they’re big, almost as tall as my 10 gallon betta tank. Great additions. I’ll definitely be ordering from here again
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Love these
Absolutely love these, arrived great and healthy and with runners on there way, after 15 days they are still doing great and have produced 7 runners, bought 2 and got 7 within 15 days
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Amazon Sword
I received 2 medium sized plants. The only thing about them is that the roots were cut off and left with 3/4" of roots. I don't know why they were both cut that way.
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Very pleased
These plants came in a little taller than expected and I am happy that they are very green. Nice background and pants to compliment the jungle vals I ordered as well. Will definitely continue business here
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Amazon Swords
Totally satisfied with these plants. Indeed, they arrived larger and in better condition that I expected. And each plant had one or two shoots that each had one or two additional small plants with roots. I will soon be able to clip them off and plant in the substrate. Very satisfied. Will definitely give you more business.
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Excellent
Very nice - excellent. Arrived in perfect shape - very nice very large plant. Work well in my 100 gallon. These are big and nice.
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Amazon Sword Plant (med size)
I just received an order of 4 plants, one was rather small for a med. size and compared to the other 3 and the reason for only 4 stars instead of 5. Otherwise ALL were Excellent in all aspects, and a plus to my tanks!
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Awesome
Finally, a true amazon sword plant. I have tired many other swords even from hobby fish stores, and they never survived. Most likely fake "look alikes". I thought I'd give this one a try, and I'm amazed. It arrived with a healthy root bunch and lots of leaves. After 1 week in the tank it sprouted new leaves and has continued to grow quickly! This makes me hopeful because I have never had good luck with live plants in the past. I'll be ordering here again.
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strong and immpressive
Love these!Very nice and fish love them to hang out around!