Red Melon Sword
$7.99
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Red Melon Sword
$7.99
- Red and green leaves
- Easy care
- Wide leaves for shelter
- Not available to be shipped to Hawaii and Alaska.
Red melon sword is an easy plant with a striking appearance. As per its common name, this plant will produce vibrant red and green foliage. It does well as a background plant in aquascaping and can serve as a centerpiece in smaller aquariums due to its eye-catching appearance. Its big, rounded leaves provide a nice, shady place for fish to take shelter.
- Scientific Name: Echinodorus osiris or Echinodorus 'Barthii'
- Origin: Hybrid of Echinodorus spp.
- Skill Level: Easy
- Placement: Background
- Recommended Light: Low to Medium Light 10-35 PAR (click to see our PAR chart)
- CO2 Requirement: None
- Preferred Fertilizer: Easy Root Tabs and Easy Green liquid fertilizer
- Propagation: Trim off side shoots and replant
***Being a natural product, sizes can vary from what is shown.***
How to Plant Red Melon Sword Aquarium Plant
1. Remove the potted plant from plastic basket, and split the rock wool in half.
2. Carefully remove the plant roots from the rock wool, and make sure to remove all the small, yellow fertilizer balls. Wash off any remaining debris.
3. Use planting tweezers or your fingers to push the roots of the sword deeply into the substrate until they are completely buried. Pull out the plant slightly so that the crown (i.e., the base of the plant where all the leaves come out) is not covered with substrate.
4. If the plant keeps popping out of the ground, try inserting the plant at an angle or wrap a plant weight at the bottom of the plant to keep it anchored.
5. Make sure to add lots of root tabs if you’re using inert substrate or if your nutrient-rich substrate is depleted.
How to Care for Red Melon Sword Plant
— Red melon sword plant care is very easy, so start by using low to medium lighting between 10-35 PAR.
— Why is my new sword plant melting? Sword plants are sometimes known to experience melting when they suddenly move to a new environment. To help the plant recover faster and grow new leaves that are accustomed to your water parameters, leave the roots planted in the ground and make sure to provide nutrient-rich planted tank substrate or Easy Root Tabs.
— Why is my red melon sword turning brown after it was growing so well? Sword plants absorb lots of nutrients from the ground, so it may be a nutrient deficiency. If the larger, outer leaves are yellowing and dying after a couple of months, please add more root tabs.
— How to trim red melon sword: If the sword plant has dying or melting leaves, cut them off at the base of the leaf.
— Note: Bristlenose plecos and other plecos have been known to eat sword plants, so watch out for this if you see holes in the leaves.
How to Propagate Red Melon Sword
Sword plants reproduce by sending out a horizontal runner with a little plantlet at the end. The plantlet will sprout its own leaves and roots that grow into the ground. You can cut off the plantlet and re-plant it in a different location.
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Heavy Root Feeder
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A
This pretty little plant is doing well in my goldfish tank.
t
Looks good and healthy roots almost didn’t melt after 5 day of shipping came perfectly fresh
J
I purchased 2 red melon swords because they look different than a regular sword plant. They showed up in great shape and look very nice in my aquarium. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
J
Looks nothing like the pictures. Leaves yellowing with white spots , I doubt this plant will make it.
A
I circled the plant in red so that you can see it. I planted this aquarium at the same time, and you can see the two crypt species in front of it really grew well. Not sure if the light output wasn't high enough, or if my photo periods were too short, or if I had too many floating plants.. PH is 7.8, GH and KH are 300+, with most of my hardness coming from calcium. The plants came looking really healthy, but they have really slowly died. Kept them planted because my neocaridina shrimp love to crawl all over them and eat them up.
A
She's still just a baby, but nonetheless beautiful. Arrived healthy, swiftly and as exactly how I anticipated. Would definitely recommend. Don't mind the pleco babies ssshhnaack... Cucumber Night!!!
L
Recently moved from Illinois to TN and hadn’t yet unpacked the aquarium. Finally after being here 3 years, I finally got it set up. Did a lot of reading about live plants and it was such good fortune I landed on the Aquarium Co-Op website. (Thank you, Cory on YouTube) Wow, amazed at the plants and the prices. I bought an assortment including the Red Melon Sword Plant. I also bought the rock plant holder so setting it up in the aquarium was a piece of cake. I was pleased with the size of all the plants. They acclimated fine and are still fresh looking. I did buy the bottled fertilizer to help feed them. Don’t hesitate to buy any type of plant from the Aquarium Co-Op. I am so pleased especially with the Red Melon Sword Plant and its unusual red color. Few pics attached, one take from above.
T
These plant is stunning... I ordered 2 and they came fast, packaging perfect, and are healthy and huge!
A
This is 1/2 of my favorite plants from Aquarium co-op!! I have 3 of them so far and am going to order more!
D
Been about a week now since planted in tank. Plant rooted already and seems healthy. Way better than the Amazon Sword from “Petsmart”
M
This was the first plant order I had placed since the warehouse moved to the East coast. As a Washingtonian, I had been spoiled by the close proximity of the old location. The plants arrived exactly as they did from the old warehouse; healthy, well packaged and ready to plant! They look great in three of our aquariums and are growing well!
R
Had no idea how beautiful this would be. High light and CO2 and ferts…doing great!
D
It shipped fast and everything came in great shape, ordered red melon sword, red dwarf lilly, dwarf hairgrass. After 2 weeks everything looks great and couldnt be happier. Will be placing more orders in at aquarium co op. I also have been using easy green and easy root tabs.
a
Plant arrived bigger than expected. It melted back at first, but is now looking great (although different than the page picture, which shows an emersed grown plant).
J
Plant was perfectly packaged. Been in the tank for a month in inert sand substrate with root tabs. Plant barely melted. Now established, dark red leaves are growing
J
Pretty rough around the edges. Definitely not the usual quality from aquarium co-op.
B
I was surprised by to poor condition of this order. This isn’t quite as pictured. I hope it bounces back, but I was willing to pay the price of aquarium coop because I expected a healthier specimen.
A
beautiful plant! see image
D
Plant came lookin sharp despite the cold weather and has some good roots on it.
p
Arrived quick. Plants look good. Lets see how they do!
D
This arrived as a strong plant. Was growing well but as you can see I have a fish that loves it. Turned the leaves to lace. it is still strong
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