When you bought them they were in their emmersed form, a common way to cultivate sword type plants. Emmersed growth on swords usually has a long stem with a leaf at the end, like a canoe paddle.
Once you put them under water and their submerged growth started the new leaves look different. they don't have much of a stem at all just elongated leaves that pretty much sprout right out of the central rosette.
The first few leaves will be fairly small, but as the root system matures they will get bigger and bigger. You can help this along a lot by placing a root tab (I use seachem Flourish tabs) in the substrate near the base of each plant every 3-4 months or so.
The three year old amazon on the right hand side of my signature tank below sends out a new leaf just about every 3 days, like clockwork, and they reach their full length of about 21 inches within a week of appearing.
Don't worry, with swords, soon you won't be able to keep up with them and will find yourself wishing they were smaller.
Once you put them under water and their submerged growth started the new leaves look different. they don't have much of a stem at all just elongated leaves that pretty much sprout right out of the central rosette.
The first few leaves will be fairly small, but as the root system matures they will get bigger and bigger. You can help this along a lot by placing a root tab (I use seachem Flourish tabs) in the substrate near the base of each plant every 3-4 months or so.
The three year old amazon on the right hand side of my signature tank below sends out a new leaf just about every 3 days, like clockwork, and they reach their full length of about 21 inches within a week of appearing.
Don't worry, with swords, soon you won't be able to keep up with them and will find yourself wishing they were smaller.
