Echinodorus Quadricostatus

Echinodorus Quadricostatus
Echinodorus Quadricostatus

Video: Echinodorus Quadricostatus

Video: Echinodorus Quadricostatus
Video: Эхинодорус четырехребристый Echinodorus quadricostatus 2024, March
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The four-ribbed echinodorus (Burhead, Amazon Sword Plant) is common in Brazil. Plant height 5-10 cm.

The thickened rhizome is firmly held in the ground. The terrestrial form of the plant, the height of which is about 10 cm, has petiole leaves, dark green, oval, narrowed at the base and apex, 4 cm long and 10 mm wide. The water temperature for the four-ribbed echinodorus is 22-25 ° C, the hardness dH is 8-15 °, the acidity is pH 5.0-7.0. With rare water changes, it stops growing completely. With a lack of nutrients, the color of plant leaves fades.

Echinodorus quadricostatus (Echinodorus quadricostatus), photo photography aquarium plants
Echinodorus quadricostatus (Echinodorus quadricostatus), photo photography aquarium plants

Echinodorus quadricostatus

In a plant grown in water, the leaves are thin, green, scarious with short petioles, oval, narrowed at the base and apex, with weakly pronounced veins, 15 cm long and 2 cm wide. Production is carried out using creeping shoots, on which leaf buds appear daughter plants. Echinodorus can also be grown in greenhouses.

Echinodorus is undemanding to the quality of the soil, it can be planted in ordinary aquarium soil (coarse river sand or fine gravel), which is sufficiently silted. Grows well in an aquarium under medium light in neutral water of medium hardness. The duration of daylight hours is at least 10 hours a day. In winter, with insufficient light, leaves may die off.

In an aquarium it is best to be placed in the foreground or middle ground. Moreover, you can even plant a plant in places where fish feed. Suitable for keeping in an aquarium overcrowded with fish.

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