Dwarf Chain Sword - Aquarium Co - Op

Dwarf Chain Sword

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Dwarf Chain Sword

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  • Grass-like carpeting plant
  • Easy to grow
  • Spreads quickly
  • Not available to be shipped to Hawaii and Alaska.

Dwarf chain sword or pygmy chain sword is one of the easiest carpeting plants. It grows to about 4 inches tall and has a grassy appearance. It thrives in medium lighting with lots of nutrients in the substrate and will fill in pretty quickly once it gets established. 

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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.

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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.

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Heavy Root Feeder

Dwarf chain swords are heavy root feeders and need regular root tabs to prevent nutrient deficiencies and slow growth. We recommend adding root tabs monthly. As the plant spreads out and forms a carpet, you can increase the amount of root tabs given each month.

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  • 1 star: 20 (6%)
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Zin. N. (Dallas, TX, US)
Better than expected!

The plants come quickly and securely with a thermal bag to protect it from the heat while shipping. I ordered 10 Dwarf Chain Swords because I expected to lose some during the shipping process but that was not the case at all. What I received was better than I expected and since Dwarf Chain Swords are runner plant I could separate into more than just 10 plants to be planted. I’m currently in the melting phase but I already see new runners growing and thriving. 10/10 I couldn’t have ask for better aquarium plants. Can’t wait until they carpet the bottom of my aquarium.

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Gayla A. (Elizabethtown, KY, US)

Very, very tiny plants for over $30 with shipping. I could fit them all in half my hand. They all died within one week.

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Kyle H. (Tampa, FL, US)
Live plant order

I placed my order of one Dwarf Chain Sword and received it less then a week! Came with a heat pack and the plant was securely packed and sealed. Followed the instructions that came with it and within 3-5 days it started growing “runners” and spreading throughout my tank as I hoped! Thanks to the help of Easy Root Tabs. My neocaridina shrimp love it!

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Jennifer (Oceanside, CA, US)
Healthy!

Beautiful plant! Really healthy and green. Hopefully I can get it to carpet. Can't wait to get it established in my new 55. Shipping was quick too. I appreciated the heat pack was still slightly warm when I received the plants too. Thank you!

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Opa’sfishdepot (Chicago, IL, US)
Great quality

Received my dwarf chain swords today. Amazing quality. Top notch packaging. Will definitely buy more from them.

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Anonymous (Lewiston, ID, US)
Took 10 days to arrive and came very cold

I ordered 8 plants and they all arrived very cold and in rough shape, very disappointing. They began melting badly the very next day, but most of the roots did look healthy upon arrival though so hopefully they survive. I hope this order was just a fluke.

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Derek J. (Saltillo, MS, US)
Excellent addition

Plant arrived quickly and very healthy. It has been in my tank about a month now and has flourished. I now have 4 runners and a total of nine plants. This was an excellent addition to my setup.

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Paul C. (Wayne, NJ, US)
Excellent Foreground Plant - love the bright green color

Order 3 of these to fill out a foreground space. Under good lighting, they look almost neon green, love the contrast with the other darker green plants.

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Collin G. (West Valley City, UT, US)
Sadly the worst plants I've bought yet from aquarium co op.

Bought 7 or 8 dwarf saggitara. Usually the plants I have bought have been really great quality and have been grown emersed. I don't think this was the case for 6 of the ones I bought as they were completely yellowed and melted. The one that did survive really well was completely green and didn't experience any melting or yellowing. So probably was just due to shipping. I did notice that the one plant that did super good have these gray granule things with the roots while all the others did not. So that probably had a lot to do with it.

anyways, super sad. Usually my experience is 5/5, love the stickers they send with you, and the way they ship it with the heat packs and insulated bags. Just for whatever reason, the plants j got were pretty bad when I recieved them.

Planted all the roots of the ones that were completely yellowed and melted, so probably are going to melt completely for a time while they adjust, but hoping they bounce back. The one that arrived super healthy is doing great though!

The pictures below are how they arrived in the mail after getting them ready for planting. Ended up trimming the leaves on the really bad ones that were completely brown.

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Greg M. (Indianapolis, IN, US)
Multiple Plants Ordered - 4/6 Arrived in Great Condition

This was my second order from Aquarium Coop and similar to last time most of the plants arrived in excellent condition. I couldn't quite give 5 stars because the crypt arrived nearly dead and the Valisneria was also in poor condition.

Two days after planting, the crypt was 90% melted and now a couple weeks later there are just a couple tiny roots/leaves barely hanging on. I think it will make a comeback but will take some time.

The Valisneria arrived damaged because the leaves were folded over in the packaging. I had to trim the top 2/3 off that had died but it seems to be surviving now and should hopefully grow.

I'm again pretty happy all around but if I could make one suggestion, taller plants really need a longer bag/box for shipping. The Amazon sword and Valisneria were both folded in half by the time they reached my house. The sword leaves still have creases and large brown dead spots and the Valisneria is basically cut down by 2/3 since the top portion wasn't salvageable.

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Dustin T. (Houston, TX, US)
Nice looking beginner carpet grass

I run a low tech tank but wanted carpet grass up front. When this plant came it started to wilt but sprang back with root tabs and easy green fertilizer and its been a month and a half and what I started with has doubled. It is sending out runners and making more. It's really exciting for me plant wise. Im buying another to put on the other side of the tank in hopes they meet in the middle. I like this plant.

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Josh G. (Omaha, NE, US)
Love this dwarf chain sword

The dwarf chain sword arrived in great condition and planted just fine. It had some melt, but it has already sent out a runner and is shaping up nicely.

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Big F. (Richardson, TX, US)
This stuff looks Great

I was like ok I want some little grass up front and boy howdy did it make the foreground Pop harder. I’ll buy some more of this in the future. Really like this stuff came in great shape too. Give it root tabs and easy green juice

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No g.t.h. (Winston-Salem, NC, US)
Love them

These came twice as tall as I expected but I and my fish love them. I don't have anything fancy and I'm definitely not a scaper. I just really wanted plants for a more natural look and to help with nitrites and nitrates. I'm also not good with plants. I do need to trim up some of these because some do have yellow tips. Can someone please tell me the best way I should trim off the yellow and brown tips. How far down should I trim them? I do want to keep the height. My large Cory will pluck up any plants so I left these in the pots.

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JT (Fontana, CA, US)
Fast shipping

Arrived a day after receiving shipping confirmation and was packed with great care. Bit concerned as the holding bag was showing signs of discoloration and the plant looked like it was melting. Looks a lot better after I got it out of the pot and planted into the tank so will keep fingers crossed that it bounces back well.

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N.L. (Placentia, CA, US)
Disappointed

I received these plants in very poor condition, honestly the worst I've ever received plants and that's including other cross country shipments. Most stems/leaves were broken and roots rotten. I picked off what I could but I expect better out of a company that prides itself on proper care... I feel like I could've gotten better tube plants from Petco (I have). Luckily my tank is very easy to grow plants in and these will recover.

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Mark (Syracuse, NY, US)
Not so good

We are now on our second dwarf chain sword.Just won’t take. The other three are doing great!
About to send off another email.

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Allen T. (Berwyn, IL, US)
Always the best of plants and fish stuff

The plants are very nice. Always great to do bussiness with you guys. Also really like the super fast shipping you provide.

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Dahlia C.
Melted in transit.

Unfortunately my plant order got stuck in transit over the weekend and I live in the south so it is very hot. All of the plants had melted to some degree but the dwarf chain sword was the worst and had completely melted. I put them all in an isolation take and dosed with easy green. The other plants have started to make a comeback and I am seeing new growth. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the sword is going to make it. I had to cut it all the way back almost to the roots. I have planted it with root tabs and I am dosing with easy green in hopes that it makes a miraculous recovery. In the future I will wait for cooler temps before placing a plant order.

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C.S. (Trumbull, CT, US)
Arrived Dead

I ordered a large amount of plants and while some of them arrived healthy, these arrived brown and dead. I dont fault aquarium co-op as they were in transit during the massive heatwave we had this past week and I've never had an issue in the past. Its been about a week since I received them and while I hoped for the best, it doesn't seem like they will come back around.

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We process and ship out 98%+ of our shipments next business day. 

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ordering live plants on Saturdays and Sundays for a Monday ship out.

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Faster shipping options available at checkout for an additional charge.

Alaska and Hawaii have a $17.99 surcharge. We do not ship to Puerto Rico currently.

90 DAY RETURN POLICY

90 Day Return Policy

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to be expected. We recognize that sometimes a product may not completely
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Shipping Team
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