Echinodorus Radicans Graceful Giant for Background Aquascaping

🌿 Echinodorus Radicans – Graceful Giant for Background Aquascaping

Echinodorus Radicans, also known as the Radican Sword, is a robust, fast-growing background plant ideal for large aquariums. With its broad, slightly ruffled green leaves and towering height, it creates an impressive, natural centerpiece or dense green curtain in the rear of the tank.

Native to South America, this plant thrives in nutrient-rich substrate and is perfect for hobbyists looking to create a lush Amazonian or jungle-style aquascape.

✅ Quick Specs:

• Scientific Name: Echinodorus radicans

• Common Name: Radican Sword

• Height: 40–60+ cm

• Lighting: Medium to High

• CO₂: Optional but improves growth and color

• Temperature: 22–28°C

• Placement: Background

• Growth Rate: Fast

• Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate

🌱 Why You'll Love It:

• Produces large, ruffled green leaves—great visual impact

• Excellent choice for large or open-top tanks

• Provides great cover for fish, shrimp, and fry

• Can grow submerged or emersed (flowers in emersed setups)

• Low-maintenance once established

💡 Care Tips:

• Best results in a nutrient-rich substrate or with root tabs

• Requires adequate space—grows tall and wide

• May produce emersed leaves and flowering stalks in open setups

• Trim outer leaves to encourage compact, lush new growth

• Avoid in nano tanks due to its size

📦 Sold Individually – Healthy, Rooted, and Ready to Plant!
Perfect for Amazonian biotopes, large planted aquariums, or natural-style aquascapes.