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Amazon Sword Plants

This is a 90 gal (48"L and 26" H) It is planted with common Amazon swords, bolbitis, ludwigia, java ferns, an anubias and a Frans Stroffels sword. These Amazon swords have grown very well and and 3 have become mother plants. As mother plants they send out shoots that develops plantlets with multiple leaves and roots. These shoots of new plants provide cover for the fish on the surface. This tank does not have CO2 and rarely gets fertilizer..

With the pandemic I have not found a good outlet for these plants.. I look forward to our parking lot swap scheduled for October so I can thin out and aquascape this tank.

12 comments

12 Comments

davidsombachphoto

Sep 06, 2020

The other thing is you must have figured out the correct growing conditions for these plants, ie.light/time as there appears to be no algae....

davidsombachphoto

Sep 06, 2020

Thats great Rich: Imagine if you added some plant spikes to the gravel around them...

richardtrownsell

Sep 11, 2020

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It would be a " Feed Me Seymour" moment.. Might need to move out of the house.

dheifetz18

Sep 06, 2020

Wow, great plants! I would love some!

richardtrownsell

Sep 12, 2020

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@dheifetz18 Ir will be announced on the web site. We are tentatively looking at the 3rd weekend in October with a rain date. Our concept is that items to be sold would be put on the website with pictures and people could pre order them. This would allow the orders to be pre bagged.

richardtrownsell

Sep 14, 2020

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@dheifetz18 We have a virtual meeting with zoom at 7pm Sept 23rd. The topic is photographing aquariums and fish. I am sure there will be an announcement and discussion of upcoming events. More information on how to join the meeting is in the upcoming announcement forum.

dheifetz18

Sep 15, 2020

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Thank you, Richard, I look forward to the meeting!

mmverdery

Aug 30, 2020

Gorgeous plants!