Garden Plants

[stipe]

I dont know the exact species but this type of plant can actually grow roots and live in a vase full of water. So i was wondering if i washed it good and quaratined it would it live under water. THe thing i was wondering was that under water plants draw in nutrition a bit differently from soil/land dweling plants. I use both liquid, and tablet ferilizers and plus a CO2 reacter. Would the plant draw in the CO2 or not?
Also would it polute me tank?

Help would be nice, thx.

 

[s1ren]

Hard to say, without knowing the name of the plant you're talking about.

Pothos Ivy (aka Devil's Ivy) is one common houseplant that can live and do just fine in only a vase of water - it's a vining or trailing plant. Is this what you're talking about?

I have cuttings of it in all of my tanks; and I always have - it grows just fine in newt tanks, without ANY fertilizer or anything. If you use Pothos, it should be fine on its own.

An interesting thing about Pothos is that its color will lighten and the light spots will increase, the more light you give it. Even Pothos with solid-green leaves will develop light spots in high light conditions (it's not a problem for the plant, just a perk!

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Just be sure your lids are tight - my paddletail used to LOVE to climb the parts of the plant that stuck out of the water, and try to get out that way. Eventually, he made it...and died before I could locate him.