Helanthium Tenellus
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Ships to New Zealand
Ships to New Zealand
Aquarium Plants are typically dispatched within 1 business day. Delivery times vary based on the destination. We do not ship live plants on Friday, unless specifically requested.
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Live Plant Guarantee
We want you to shop with confidence knowing your plants are covered by our Live Arrival Guarantee. Every plant is hand-picked, quality-checked, and packed with care to ensure it reaches you in healthy condition.
Our Promise
- All live plants are guaranteed to arrive alive and healthy.
- If your plants arrive damaged, melted, or in poor condition, we’ll replace or refund them — no hassle.
- Just email us within 24 hours of delivery with clear photos of the affected plants and your order number.
Please Note
- The guarantee applies only to the initial delivery.
- Once the plants have been removed from their original packaging or planted into your aquarium, the guarantee no longer applies.
- We can’t take responsibility for plants left exposed to extreme heat, cold, or direct sunlight after delivery, so please choose a delivery address where someone can receive the parcel promptly.
We genuinely want your aquascape to thrive — and we’ll always do our best to make things right if something goes wrong.
Placement Mid to foreground carpet
Helanthium Tenellus is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Description
Description
Helanthium tenellum, the pygmy chain sword, is a small grass-like plant with thin narrow leaves that sit low across the front of the tank. It spreads by runners into a lawn, and in high-tech tanks the new growth on the narrow-leaved form can flush a rich red that draws the eye. This is a natural mid to foreground carpeting plant.
In your tank it wants to spread and fill in, growing as a low lawn the way it does in the wild. It stays happy in modest light and does not need CO2, so it suits beginners and community tanks alike. You can run it as a solid carpet, or let sparse stems rise up through a shorter carpet of another plant to add depth. In an iwagumi it works nicely as a second-tier foreground plant, and being a marsh plant by nature it also does well in paludariums as long as the roots stay wet.
Care at a glance
- Placement: Mid to foreground carpet
- Lighting: Low
- CO2: Low, not required
- Growth rate: Moderate
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Colour: Green
All our plants are harvested fresh, algae free and in great health. The conversion to submerged form starts in our grow-out tanks, which maximises your success once it settles into your aquarium. Submerged means grown fully below the waterline. Emersed means grown with leaves and stems above the waterline; grown this way the leaves are wider and sit on shorter stems.
Specifications
Specifications
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