will bamboo (the plant) live

[latazyo]

will live bamboo (the plant) live in a 10g tank, and if so, will it intrduce toxins of any kind into the tank?

thanks

[keely]

If it's the "bamboo" the Chinese call "lucky bamboo" that grows in trays of pebbles in water, it's not really bamboo, it just looks like it. It's actually a kind of dracaena.

I've had it growing out the top of 3 or 4 tanks (it forms massive thickets of roots underwater) and it didn't seem to bother any of the fish.

[latazyo]

yes, this is what I mean...thanks

[FishmasteR2002]

Do you have a pic of that plant growing in a tank? I think they look neat... :)

[keely]

No digital camera, doh! I only have some in my little paludarium tank right now. When the root mass gets too tangly, I just slice the bottom of the stalk off and put the top back in again... :) I grew some on a shady part of my deck this summer and stupidly put it in a pot of water that got narrower at the top... I couldn't get it out in the fall because the matted rootball took up the whole pot... duh...

Latazyo is going to take pics and post them! Right? :)

[wetmanNY]

Latazyo, the toxins you're thinking of (and I was too) come from that othercommon household plant Dieffenbachia, "Dumbcane" or "Mother-in-Law's Tongue."

[latazyo]

alright, a friend of mine thought it would be interesting to make a hanging light fixture and allow the bamboo to grow out of the top of his tank, he asked me to look into it, he lives across the hall though, so I'll get some picks as soon as everything is going good