Houseplants

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ShadowVengance

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Reading people trying things like putting venus flytraps underwater,
and how amazon swords would make good houseplants, and most
stores grow their plants out of water before submerging them for sale.

What kind of houseplants would do well underwater in my tank,
of course, staying alive, and not secreting anything foul into my tank.

this would be awesome cause plants cost a bundle,
and ive got a heck of a lot of plants laying around my house.

I don't know the name of my houseplants, but i could take pics and post them.
 
The only plant I know of that does equally well with immersed roots or fully submerges is java fern.
When grown immersed (roots wet only), the leaves grow in a tri-lobed configuration.
Fully submerged plants grow single-lobed leaves.

I do have some Wal-Mart ivy plants growing in empty baskets with their roots in the water. They seem to be doing OK. But, I've never heard of a regularly terrestrial plant to survive for a long time fully submerged.
 
Your going to be hard pressed to find anything like that.
 
i have a house plant but dont know the name. not a caladium, but it has small elephant ear leaves, the largest about 5 inches top to bottom, white with green trim. ill take a pic tmw. ive put a piece in my axolotl tank and its lived over a week and is beginning to send roots down into the sand now. the leaves are opening up and it is not showing any signs of dying yet. it is not a caladium.
 
Has anyone tried bamboo? I know that around here you can get it at ta few places in the mall pretty cheap. As well you can get it with like a curl in it, quite cool looking.
 
I've been playing with this one for awhile, I've kept sword plants as house plants (in a pot in another container full of water).
I've grown them using hydroponics, it can be done.
Most trailing plants can stand to let their lower stems dangle in water, with minimal damage to the plant.
Such plants are Syngonium(arrowhead vine),Philodendron and even Ivy.
As I right this I have a 10g tank full of tradescantia growing on or just above the water surface.
Plants that do well with their roots in waterare as follows,Spathephyllum(Peace lillies) and Chlorophytum(Spider plants) Most Sagittaria and most Sword plants.
I once had an Echinodorus Gradiflorus growing 3' out of my 33g tank, it would have been taller but I didn't have enough light.
Cyperus are also good in and out of water but they get very tall, my C. alternafolius was 6' tall but I had to trim him back before I brought him back inside for the winter.
 
I have no experience growing normal house plants in an aquarium but I have some of them growing on top of the aquarium with their roots hanging just below the water surface. Arrowhead vine especially has gotten totally out of control. Once it had settled for living partly in water it grew 50cm (a bit under 2ft) in a week. I had to start cutting it to smaller pieces when the plant started traveling back from end to end for the 3rd time over my aquarium. My tank is 2 meters long so the plant was over 4 meters (over 13ft). :D

I have some pictures of the plants that I grow up around my aquarium. I would appreciate if someone would tell me the English names for them. I only know the Arrowhead vine or Aasinkorva in Finnish (Literal translation would be donkeys ear).

The top of my tank. The white stick on top of it is my recently repaired DIY moonlight system that I haven't yet installed back to its right place.
kokonaiskuva.jpg


Arrowhead vine
aasinkorva.jpg


"Kultaköynnös" or the golden vine literally translated from Finnish. This plant has also been recently growing up quite fast and it has just reached the other end for the first time.
kultakoynnos.jpg


"Peikonlehti" or troll's leaf literally translated from Finnish. I had to support this plant with couple of strings in order to avoid it from being submerged.
peikonlehti.jpg
 
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