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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Amazon Sword
Posted by James J Nicholson on 24 May 2021Plants arrived in great shape, shipped out quickly. Only issue I had was that they were rather small in size for medium plants and were a little more expensive than other aquatic plant suppliers. I still give them 5 stars for quality and quick shipping.
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Amazon Sword
Posted by James J Nicholson on 24 May 2021Plants arrived in great shape, shipped out quickly. Only issue I had was that they were rather small in size for medium plants and were a little more expensive than other aquatic plant suppliers. I still give them 5 stars for quality and quick shipping.
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echinodorus sp
Posted by Kirk on 19 May 2021Love this sword. Looks great.
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Amazon swords
Posted by Jamie on 10 May 2021Cheapest Amazon swords you will find, great beginner aquascaping plant. All came healthy and alive.
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AMAZON SWORD
Posted by colleen obrien on 30 Apr 2021HEALTHY AND GREEN--LOOKS GREAT!
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amazon sword
Posted by Unknown on 23 Apr 2021came in healthy shipping was fast already have new growths sprouting up
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Nice plant
Posted by Thomas on 21 Apr 2021small at first but seems to be growing well.
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Amazon sword
Posted by Discus on 14 Apr 2021Great looking plant.
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Amazon sword
Posted by Doug B on 5 Apr 2021One was larger than the other., 5 leaves and 7 leaves. After a few days, new leaves on both!
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Nice full plants
Posted by Amber Prewitt on 27 Mar 2021I order 2 sets, so 4 total. and they all came in nice and full. I would guess they are about 6-7 inches tall. I have them planted in pool filter sand with root tabs, and I just started Co2 a few days ago. They have been planted for 1 week and so far all the leaves have been doing good, no melting or die off.
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Amazon Sword
Posted by Z on 23 Mar 2021These Amazon sword plants arrived with beautiful leaves. They are a nice size starter plant.
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Amazon Sword
Posted by Mark Tonra on 10 Mar 2021I’m very happy with the Amazon Sword plants, my water is very hard and they’ve done well so far.
