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Amazon Sword
Echinodorus grisebachii
Family: Alismataceae
📍 Amazon Basin, South America
The amazon sword is a staple background plant in community aquariums, producing broad lanceolate leaves that provide shelter for fish. It is a heavy feeder that benefits greatly from root tab fertilisers. Given adequate nutrients and moderate light, it will grow large and produce runner plantlets.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Beneficial but not essential
- light
- Medium (50–80 PAR)
- placement
- Background
- substrate
- Nutrient-rich substrate; root tabs recommended
- growth rate
- Moderate
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.5–7.5
- nitrate
- <30 ppm
- hardness
- 8–15 dGH
- temperature
- 72–82°F (22–28°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
77°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jul low, Feb high)