Echinodorus Uruguay

Echinodorus "Uruguay" is a narrow-leaved sword plant traded under that name and usually referred to Echinodorus uruguayensis. Beside the broad-leaved Amazon swords it looks more upright and slender, with long, wavy-edged leaves that can pick up olive to bronze tones in good light. Naming within the swords is untidy, so read the label as a trade name rather than a settled identification.

Aquarium care

• Rosette plant: roots buried, crown left proud of the substrate.
• Feeds heavily through the roots, so use root tabs or a nutritive substrate.
• Moderate to strong light brings out the darker colouring, and in low light it stays plain green.
• Slow to establish and then steady, so give it several weeks before judging it.
• Grows without CO2, though it fills out faster with it.
• Plant it as a single specimen or a loose group with room to spread.

A good background plant for medium and large community tanks with tetras, rainbowfish, corydoras and peaceful cichlids. The leaves are narrow enough that it does not shade out everything behind it.

Stock rotates, and plants are sold for local pickup at our Lethbridge store. See the plants collection.