🌿 Chain Sword Narrowleaf – Compact Runner Plant for Natural Carpeting
🌿 Chain Sword Narrowleaf (Echinodorus tenellus) is a small, fast-spreading sword for natural carpets and tidy foregrounds. Slim blades creep by runners, forming a soft grass bed in dirted, low-tech tanks—no CO₂, no bottles, no drama. Set it over Aqua Preta for steady root nutrition.
Why you'll love it
- ✅ Carpet-like growth from natural runners
- ✅ Compact size for nano tanks and foregrounds
- ✅ Low-tech friendly—no CO₂ or liquid fertilizers
- ✅ Shrimp and fry safe, great cover and biofilm
Care
- Lighting: moderate (more light = faster spread)
- Substrate: rich soil with a sand cap
- Placement: foreground
- Growth rate: moderate (speeds up in brighter light)
- Tank size: 5 gallons and up
🌱 Once settled it throws runners—trim or guide them to shape your layout.
Father Fish tip
“Want a carpet without the chemical circus? Give it soil and time. It’ll run.”
👉 Explore more Sword Plants, add fast growers from the Stem Plants Collection, and finish with easy accents from the Anubias Collection.
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