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Wide-leaf Amazon sword plants, Echinodorus bleheri, grow best in BB-size
gravels. Yes, the blue bits in there look dorky. Fertilize
frequently and make frequent water changes. Make sure your
fertilizer contains irom in a form available to your sword plants.
Give them 12 hours of good light for best results. Trim off any
brown, yellow, or damaged leaves. Pruning usually produces a growth
spurt. Trim off any non-white dead roots.
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Narrow-leaf Amazon sword plants, Echinodorus amazonicus, have exactly the
same needs. Don't obsess over it if you cannot tell them
apart. Those are Japanese moss balls
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Ruffled sword plants, Echinodorus martii, grows best under the same
parameters. The inch-long fishes are little brichardi. Most swords
grow into show plants. Position your sword plant where it has room
to expand accordingly.
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04.19.04. Brazilian sword, Spathiphyllum species, is really a bog
plant. These particular specimens were tossed in a 55 and allowed to
float for two days before being planted. As a result, they grew all
gnarly like this. We'll see how long it takes them to grow straight
again.
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04.20.05. Starting to straighten out.
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04.22.04. Probably as ungnarled as it's gonna get.
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The potted ones cost a couple bucks more but are certainly worth it.
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Brazilian swords are really bog plants. They have flowers when
raised emersed.
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