Micro Chain Sword (Helanthium tenellum 'Micro') - Tissue Culture
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The Helanthium tenellum 'Micro', also known as Micro Chain Sword, is a compact, grass-like carpeting plant perfect for nano tanks and aquascapes. With its thin, bright green leaves and delicate growth pattern, this plant creates a lush, natural-looking foreground that enhances the depth and realism of any aquascape. Compared to standard Helanthium tenellum, the 'Micro' variety stays smaller and more refined, making it an excellent choice for planted tanks of all sizes.
Grown in sterile tissue culture, this plant is 100% pest-free, disease-free, and algae-free, ensuring a healthy and clean start for your aquarium. Unlike traditionally grown plants, tissue culture specimens arrive with strong, young growth, ready to spread and establish in your tank.
Features We Love:
- Perfect Nano Carpet Plant – Grows shorter than standard Chain Sword, making it ideal for foreground coverage.
- Easy and Hardy – Thrives in a range of conditions with minimal care.
- Great for Shrimp and Small Fish Tanks – Provides shelter and grazing areas for invertebrates.
- Rapid Spread with Runners – Forms a dense carpet over time when given proper lighting and nutrients.
Care Guidelines:
- Light: Moderate to high.
- Temperature: 68° - 82° F (20° - 28° C).
- pH Range: 6.0 - 7.5.
- Growth Rate: Moderate to fast.
- Ideal Placement: Foreground.
Pro Tips:
- Encourage Carpet Growth – High light and nutrient-rich substrate help this plant spread efficiently.
- CO₂ Enhances Growth – While not required, CO₂ supplementation promotes faster and denser carpeting.
- Trim for Even Growth – Regular trimming encourages horizontal spreading and prevents vertical growth.
- Plant in Small Clumps – Spacing out tissue culture portions allows runners to spread naturally, forming a dense carpet over time.
100% Live Arrival Guarantee:
We stand by the quality of our plants. All Aquatic Arts plants come with a 100% Live Arrival Guarantee.
For the safety of our animals, we only ship live fish, crabs, and select other inverts exclusively via UPS 1 Day Air. If your order contains this item, you will only see UPS 1 Day Air as a shipping option during checkout. If other items are in your cart that can ship with 2 day or standard shipping options the only shipping method you can still select is UPS 1 Day Air.
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Shipping Schedule for this service
Current Handling Time:
1-9 business days
Here at Aquatic Arts, we consider the welfare of the live animals we are shipping to be of the foremost importance. This process is much more involved than simply creating a shipping label and affixing it to a box. Depending on the order, it takes from 4 to 7 people to complete this process properly. We check the weather conditions here where they fly out of the Indianapolis UPS facility and the destination for each shipment. We start early each morning and go through a multi-step process to have the day's shipments prepared in time for the UPS pickup. The volume of orders in our system also affects the processing time. Therefore our stated handling time is 1-9 business days.
Shipping Rate
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