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Hey everyone,

I had a rather specific question and with all the great minds on this site I figured someone would have some incite. I just bought a water hyacinth for my outdoor pond and its beautiful. It is sending off baby plants now. The pond also contains bullfrog tadpoles. Does anyone think if I move some baby plants into my indoor axolotl tank it will harm the lotls? I'm only thinking I don't want them to get introduced to a sickness or parasite the tadpoles may potentially have. I don't want to risk it if that's a possibility. I don't know if plants can transfer such a things. Thanks!!

-Jake
 
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If your worried about disease you can quarantine the plant in a container for a week and that should be enough time for any bad things on there to die. I haven't quarantined plants before so I don't know if the plants themselves will survive this because they won't get much nutriance. If they die you can try again and use plant fertiliser.
 
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