Growing Echinodorus Horizontalis (Echinodorus Horizontalis) In The Aquarium

This is a semi-aquatic species. Its natural habitats are coasts of rivers and lakes, floodplains in South America.

The plant has short and thick rhizome with rosulate leaves on long leaf stems. The leaf blade is intense green, oval-shaped with pointed tip and leaf stem in cleft. It is 10-15 cm long and about 5 cm wide. The plant develops flower stalk (it is up to 60 cm long) and it can bloom above and under the water surface.

This species should be singly planted in the middle of the aquarium. It can be 50 cm wide.

The plant grows slowly when the water temperature and lighting are too low and the water is without nutrients and minerals.

This is spermatophyte species but in aquarium we reproduce it vegetatively - by the plantlets (formations of miniaturized plant which develop on the flower stalk). These plantlets should be several centimeters long and they should have extensive root system. Then the seedlings will properly grow.