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Pygmy Chain Sword is the
smallest of the Echinodorus family growing to
three to four centimetres in height and is
a great aquarium plant for the foreground of
your tank. It originates from North
America and is a prolific grower which
will quickly multiply under most
conditions, It likes good lighting but
will also live under other plants fairly
happily. The young plants are sprouted
from runners which push out under the gravel
and will pop up and surprise you. Let the
plants get to a decent size and then cut the
runner so that it is independent of the parent
plant.
Easy to make friends with
these as most people will appreciate a spare
plant or two.
This can be kept in a pot if
you want to avoid it trying to colonise the
whole aquarium but letting it do its own thing
can give a nice natural look to the front of
the tank and help to break up the look of the
gravel. It will need a fine gravel or
sand ideally as a substrate to avoid any damage
to the roots.
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