ECHINODURUS BLEHERI

ECHINODURUS BLEHERI

Common Name: Amazon Sword

Echinodorus Blehere are beautiful and easy to care for. They offer excellent and attractive coverage to the background of an aquascape. These plants have short stems that grow in a rosette, bearing long and ovoid leaves with a pointed tip. Their leaves are dark or bright green in color with prominent veins and slightly wavy shape.

The rosette normally consists of approx. 30 leaves and they will vary in their depth of greenness. Any sign of the leaves turning yellow usually means that the plant is lacking in iron so a supplement should be added to the tank.

This plant easily releases oxygen into the water column and sometimes the oxygen bubbles can be seen floating up from the plant.

Echinodorus Bleheri can get really big and their large leaves can cause a lot of shade for other plants in the tank.  Regular pruning is advised. These plants propagate through side shoots off of their leaves, which can be trimmed and replanted into the substrate. To control the size of your Amazon sword plant you can remove the side shoots and older leaves.

Take care to keep water parameters stable as unstable parameters will result in melt and rotting of the plant.