Echinodorus (Amazon Sword)
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by David Randall <76535.2776-at-compuserve.com> (23 Jul 95)
propagating swords
by krombhol-at-freud.inst.com (Paul Krombholz) (Tue, 1 Aug 1995)
Moving an Amazon Sword
by Stephen.Pushak-at-hcsd.
Echinodorus Amazonicus
This beautiful plant is also known as Echinodorus brevipedicellutus. It originates in Brazil and the mid to lower region of the Amazon River basin.
Echinodorus angustifolia
Echinodorus angustifolia
Family: Alismataceae
Common Name: Sword
Maximum Height: 4 inches to 6 inches; but can reach 12 inches or more.
Leaf Size: 1/4 inch by 2 inches to 6 inches long ...
Echinodorus parviflorus
COMMON NAME:
SYN: Echinodorus peruensis, Echinodorus tocantins
FAMILY: Alismataceae
RANGE: South America; Bolivia, Peru
AQUASCAPE: Middleground specimen plant.
HEIGHT: To 12" (30 cm)
AH: 14-20" (35-50 cm) ...
Echinodorus plants are heavy feeders, and require regular fertilization with a comprehensive liquid fertilizer and/or substrate fertilizer.
Echinodorus Schlueteri X Barthii Ozelot Sword
Offered By: That Pet Place
Price: $4.99
Echinodorus Schlueteri X Barthii Red Flame Sword
Offered By: That Pet Place
Price: $5.99 ...
These look really beautiful when planted along with Echinodorus Ozelot. Ozelots have a deep red/maroonish foliage, so a few ozelots surrounded by a carpet of tenellus gives a very striking and captivating view.
Echinodorus aschersonianus var. 'Rose'
Common Names:
Rose sword
Indian red sword ...
Echinodorus grandiflorus (family Alismataceae) is of the biggest of the Amazon sword plant species with a single leaf reaching over a metre in length if the plant is doing well.
Echinodorus osiris:
Excellent feature plant, provides red colored leaves, suited to 30 U.S. gal. tanks & up.
Hydrocotyle leucocephala
(Pennywort):
Can be used as a floating plant, provides refuge for fry (babies), grows rapidly.
The leaf of Echinodorus ozelot 4 days after the addition of hydrogen peroxide. As you can see, all soft tissue is severely damaged. Well, you can't win them all, can you ?
Amazon Sword (Echinodorus amazonicus)
Argentine Sword (Echinodorus argentinensis)
Hygrophila polysperma
Java Fern (Microsorium pteropus)
Umbrella Plant (Spathiphyllum wallisii)
Vallisneria spiralis ...
Amazon Swords (Echinodorus amazonicus)
Anacharis (Egeria densa)
Carolina Fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana)
Moneywort (Bacopa monnieri)
Ruffle Plant (Echinodorus martii)
Wisteria (Hygrophila difformis) ...
Amazon Sword Plants (Echinodorus) are in a genus that embraces more than fifty relatively hardy and adaptable species, most of which are native to the flood plains of South America.
Recently I decided to switch from plastic plants to the real-thing and purchased a few aquarium plants such as Echinodorus Rosea from my local aquarium centre. The plants were in good health and made the tank look much more authentic.
Amazon sword (Echinodorus Amazonicus): These have large, tough leaves and can generally hold their own against most goldfish. You can get smaller dwarf swords, these are also good as they still have the same tough leaves.
Amazon Sword (Echinodorus Amazonicus) - Background Plant
Cabomba (Cabomba caroliniana) - Background Plant
Money Wort (Bacopa monnieri) - Background Plant
Balansae Plant (Cryptocoryne crispatula) - Background Plant ...
Grows in bright green clumps in the gravel, around the base of plants like Echinodorus and around mechanical objects. It has a coarser texture than "beard algae". Beard algae will ripple in the water current, hair algae tends to form matted clumps.
Echinodorus Publishing (Chapel Hill, NC), 194 pp.
â†' Porath D and Pollock J. 1982. Ammonia stripping by duckweed and its feasibility in circulating aquaculture. Aquat. Bot. 13: 125-131.
â†' Gerloff GC. 1975.
Plants like Cryptocoryne and Echinodorus that are deep rooted.
So to give you an idea of the depth of the substrate you must consider the type of aquarium plants you are going to use. The deep-rooted ones will of course require the most depth.
This grows in feathery black tufts 2-3 mm long and tends to collect on slower growing leaves like Anubias, some Echinodorus and other wide leaf plants. Also tends to collect on mechanical equipment.
Amazon Swordplant - Echinodorus bleheri - another large but very hardy plant, the Amazon Sword makes a great centerpiece for larger aquariums, but can be kept in smaller tanks with moderate lighting for quite some time.
The tank should be well planted, especially with plants that have large leaves, like Echinodorus species, in between which the leaf fish loves to hide.
June
8th, 2005 (15th day)
15 days has passed since planting. The water has become clear. Glossostigma and Echinodorus tenellus have developed runners and Willow Moss on driftwood is growing steadily.
This tank is planted with Rotala indica, Egeria najas, Cryptocoryne wilsii, Anubias nana, Anubias hastifolia, Nymphaea zenkeri 'Green' (Green Tiger Lotus), Microsorium tropica (Java Fern), Ceratophyllum demersum (Hornwort), and an Echinodorus osiris ...
Breeding Info= TANK: It is best if you have a high tank with a capacity of 38G (150L) per breeding pair, upright and slanting pieces of slate or glass panes and big leaved plants such as the genus Echinodorus.
The use of some large leafed plants like Anubias and Echinodorus, are especially good because of their large overhanging leaves, which will afford ideal roosting places. Floating plants will also add good cover and subdue the light.
Pygmy Chain Sword Echinodorus tenellus I usually have this plant growing in a number of tanks that are set up for long term use.
 See also: Plants, Aquarium, Water, Fish, Substrate
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