Pygmy Chain Sword

By Clint Norwood
 
Scientific Name: Echinodorus tenellus
 
Range: Brazil
 
Ease Of Keeping: Easy-Medium
 
Lighting Requirements: Medium To Bright
 
Aquarium Conditions: Here is a plant made to order for the foreground of an aquarium. The plant grows to a maximum of only about 10cm (4.in). It will form a underwater lawn of green grassy type leaves. This plant prefers bright light and soft slightly acidic water with a temperature of 22-30C (72-86F). Pygmy Swords send many runners of new plants and will occasionally have to be thinned.