red veins in amazon sword. **pictures**

[mr funktastic]

when i first bought it it was a pure geen colour and looked awesome but now it seems that all the veins in the plant have gone red. it still looks amazing but i am wondering is this is maybe a bad thing. is this a sign of sickness? anybody else ever have this happen. i will try to geta pic so you can see what i mean

 

[Simpte]

What type of sword? Rubin swords do have red veins.

 

[mr funktastic]

it is am amzon sword. it is really weird looking. the plant ios very healthy and growing nicely but just has the funky red veins going through it.

 

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Amazon Sword = Echinodorus

There are lots of sub species.

Look through the listings at http://www.tropica.com/default.asp and you will probably be able to find it quickly. Just start with Ech.

 

[mr funktastic]

i bought this plant from big als and they get all there plants from tropica. i still have the original little pot labler thing. according to this it is a echinodorus bleheri paniculatus. soes that tell u anything lol

 

[BillD]

The plant in the picture looks perfectly normal. It also looks like what is normally considered as an "Amazon sword". What type of lighting do you have?

 

[mr funktastic]

i have a 15 watt power glow bulb (10000 k i think) and a sunglo bulb(6700 k i think) so 30 watts over 20 gallons. and a hagen co2 system