Narrow Leaf Chain sword potted

Narrow Leaf Chain sword

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Narrow Leaf Chain sword Potted aquarium plant

Scientific Name: Echinodorus tenellus
 
Range: Brazil
 
Ease Of Keeping: Easy-Medium
 
Lighting Requirements: Medium To Bright
 
Aquarium Conditions: Here is a plant made to order for the foreground of an aquarium. The plant grows to a maximum of only about 10cm (4.in). It will form a underwater lawn of green grassy type leaves. This plant prefers bright light and soft slightly acidic water with a temperature of 22-30C (72-86F). Pygmy Swords send many runners of new plants and will occasionally have to be thinned.

Echinodorus tenellus is the smallest of all sword plants. The leaves are shorter than 7 cm and about 2 mm wide, linear or sometimes lanceolate with 1-3 veins. In Nature, E. tenellus occupies the banks of large rivers where the emergent plants produce numerous flowers during the dry season. At favourable conditions in the aquarium, E. tenellussoon forms a dense carpet and it is thus very suitable as a foreground plant. In large aquaria (deeper than 40 cm)care should be taken to provide enough light because E.tenellus is rather light demanding. The plant prefers a fine-grained nutrient rich substrate - preferable sand mixed with 25% clay and laterite - and neutral to acid,soft water. E. tenellus is quite variable from individuals with lightly green and fairly short blades and to individuals with longer and darker green or even brownish blades. Also, in the shops one meets the 'false tenellus' which is simply Lilaeopsis brasiliensis. Author: Tropica

Echinodorus tenellus
Family:Alismataceae
Scientific Name:Echinodorus tenellus
Common Name:
Distribution:Central and South America
Height:4-8
Width:5-8
Light Required:average-high
Temperature:19-28
pH:acid-neutral
Ease of care:average-difficult
Notes:Echinodorus tenellus is the smallest of all sword plants. The leaves are shorter than 7 cm and about 2 mm wide, linear or sometimes lanceolate with 1-3 veins. In Nature, E. tenellus occupies the banks of large rivers where the emergent plants produce numerous flowers during the dry season. At favourable conditions in the aquarium, E. tenellussoon forms a dense carpet and it is thus very suitable as a foreground plant. In large aquaria (deeper than 40 cm)care should be taken to provide enough light because E.tenellus is rather light demanding. The plant prefers a fine-grained nutrient rich substrate - preferable sand mixed with 25% clay and laterite - and neutral to acid,soft water. E. tenellus is quite variable from individuals with lightly green and fairly short blades and to individuals with longer and darker green or even brownish blades. Also, in the shops one meets the 'false tenellus' which is simply Lilaeopsis brasiliensis.
Author:Tropica