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Pygmy Chain Sword
Echinodorus tenellus
Family: Alismataceae
Echinodorus Tenellus, the Pygmy Chain Sword, is a dwarf sword plant that forms a low, grass-like foreground carpet via prolific runners. Its narrow, strap-like leaves rarely exceed 10 cm, making it one of the few true sword plants suitable for foreground use. Under good lighting and CO2 it spreads rapidly; without CO2 growth is slower but still achievable.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Recommended for carpeting
- light
- Medium to high (80–150 PAR)
- placement
- Foreground carpet
- substrate
- Nutrient-rich substrate; root tabs beneficial
- growth rate
- Moderate
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Water it likes
- ph
- 6.5–7.5
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 2–15 dGH
- temperature
- 68–82°F (20–28°C)