Amazon swords are one of the oldest-kept plants in the hobby, loved for their ease of care and ability to tolerate a wide range of conditions. They have long, broad leaves with a pointed end that come in bright green to dark green colors. This monster plant can grow 20 inches tall or more, making them a great background plant for larger aquariums or centerpiece for small aquariums. Angelfish are known for using an Amazon sword's large leaves as a surface to lay eggs.
Heavy Root Feeder
Amazon Swords are heavy root feeders and often need to start with 2-3 root tabs at planting. We recommend adding root tabs monthly. As the plant gets larger, you should increase the amount of root tabs given each month.
Plant Transition
Most aquatic plants are grown out of water at the farms. At our warehouse, we start the plant's transition so they can begin growing underwater leaves for you. As you can see, the round leaves are grown out of water while the slender leaves are grown under water. This is a normal process, and it's your choice cut off the fading, older leaves or leave them.
How We Grow and Store Our Plants
We store all of our plants in aquariums with plenty of light and fertilizer to start converting their leaves. This picture is from our warehouse. Not all vendors store their plants in water; many store them out of water in bags straight from the farms. This is more time without light and doesn't give them a head start in growing underwater leaves.
We Include Heat Packs and Liners Free of Charge
We have a custom-developed algorithm to include heat packs and insulating plant liners as needed, based on the weather forecast from our warehouse to your shipping address. This helps keep plants at stable temperatures, both in hot and cold weather. Other vendors typically charge you at checkout for a heat pack. We include them when needed free of charge because it's our job to deliver our plants to your door healthy.
super high quality, beautiful roots, very well packaged.
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Jesse S. (Herkimer, NY, US)
Awesome plant
Plant came well packaged and in great shape. After a couple weeks it’s still doing very well and is growing at a good rate.
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Debbie S. (Mountain Lake, MN, US)
Awesome Amazon!
Amazon Sword arrived in perfect condition and is larger than plants at LFS
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Luis A. (Wellington, FL, US)
Exceptional!!!
Ordered 10 swords of 5 different types. Shipment was very fast, as usual. Order was correct, as usual.
But, the packaging wasn’t usual…..I mean, it was first class…..not just any first class, but Emirates First Class!!!
Plants were inside a very wet breathable and strong bag, which was inside a zip lock bag…..and all 10 bags were inside a very, very nice zippered thermo pouch…wow!!
Plants were very healthy and of nice size with good root structure…..they all arrived in excellent shape.
Truly remarkable!!!
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Alex B. (Fredericksburg, VA, US)
Tetras and gourami’s love
I set this plant in the middle of my tank and it just blew up almost over night. Only sad parts about the plant are it stopped growing so I will be buying more plants so it’s not such an eyesore but I should’ve researched it better not companies fault, and it hides fish really well, I thought my guppy who I was using to temperament test my fish had died but the whole time he was chilling in the stems of the plant. My tetras love playing tag around the plant chasing each other and swimming all around the leaves. My gourami loves nibbling off the dead leaves or the algae that’s grown on them. My tank would look okay without the sword but looks amazing with.