Bamboo experts needed!

[gagaliya]

Hello there, i have this crazy idea of trying to fill my aquarium with bamboos. Just regular bamboo sticks you put in a vase like:
http://www.evesgardengifts.com/ProductImages/large/20201.jpg

here are my questions:

1) Can you fully submerge the bamboo sticks inside the aquarium?
2) Will it have any adverse effect on the fish/water params etc
3) Any special requirements? like co2, ferts, etc?

I have a couple bamboo stick in a small glass vase. To me they are the most hardy plants ever. All i do is fill the vase with tap water, over time the water dries out and i refll it. THAT'S IT! and the bamboo has been growing with more and more leaves and looked healthy too!

So i could put that in the aquarium, it will be awesome. Almost no maintance and looks a lot nicer than my fake plants.

will it work?! thanks!!

gaga

[budrecki]

Her in florida they call it lucky bamboo. You can grow it in your aqaurium, but, not fully submerged. Has to be grown emerged, sticking up into the air. Normally stick out through the back of your hood near the filter.

[reptileguy2727]

it is fine fully submerged. mine lives with fancy goldfish, and does fine with elevated salt levels and even went through a heavy treatment of quick cure without any problems. here is a pic of the setup. the 55 with the lucky bamboo is on top. it is right in the middle in the vase since there is no gravel. as far as i know it shouldnt effect your water parameters.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c207/reptileguy2727/IMGP0629.jpg

[msouth468]

Just so you know. That lucky bamboo isn't really bamboo. It is a type of grass. Real bamboo grows really fast.

[Lobo.]

bamboo is also a type of grass, but the steriotipical bamboo is found in asia, the stuff that grows here (north america) naturally is called creek cane... but its really similar stuff... and yea the bamboo in asia can grow in the inches per day area...

[justintoxicated]

AFAIK

It will eventualy die if you leave it submerged, might take a while though. Mine is doing well in my Vivarium, but the tank is not a tall so it will need to be chopped eventualy!

[reptileguy2727]

i have heard that they are fine permanently completely submerged.

[RTR]

The "lucky" bamboo so popular these days is Dracena snaderiana, not at all a real bamboo. It does fine as an emerse or bog plant but generally does not survive and grow long-term fully submerse. As an emersed plant it all but indestuctable.

[ghinksmon]

For what it's worth.

http://www.arhomeandgarden.org/plantoftheweek/articles/Lucky_Bamboo.htm

[gagaliya]

hey i did some research while this forum was down. Just want to confirm, a few users have reported you cannot fully submerge this plant over long period of time. Basically the leaves need to be outside of water, or they will die and fall off, then the plant itself. The idea of having a bamboo forest (like in house of the flying daggers) inside your aquarium with a few gold fish swiming through it is a very nice visual though :( too bad, oo well.

[djblac]

I bought this plant that resembles 'lucky bamboo' but it is a lot darker green and also has white stripes through it. I was real scared after reading that lucky bamboo leaves will rot underwater, but it's even growing new leaves. The place i bought it from had multiple stocks, some fully submerged and some not.....well after about a month ALL of the plants out of the water dried up and died...i was VERY shocked! I have no idea what type of bamboo i have, but it's very similiar to your avg lucky bamboo....it does have thicker leaves.....


anyone else have this bamboo..? I'll get some pics up.

[gagaliya]

I bought this plant that resembles 'lucky bamboo' but it is a lot darker green and also has white stripes through it. I was real scared after reading that lucky bamboo leaves will rot underwater, but it's even growing new leaves. The place i bought it from had multiple stocks, some fully submerged and some not.....well after about a month ALL of the plants out of the water dried up and died...i was VERY shocked! I have no idea what type of bamboo i have, but it's very similiar to your avg lucky bamboo....it does have thicker leaves.....


anyone else have this bamboo..? I'll get some pics up.

interesting, how about the ones that were submerged, are they still alive? yeah get some pics please, maybe you discovered a new specie of submergeable lucky bamboo! :bowing:

[Lobo.]

http://www.orchidsasia.com/cutfoliage/Image4sm.jpg
its a Sandriana plant (they come with white or yellow stripes), i had one once, but the light wasn't good enough... the ones that dried up out of the water had somethin else wrong with them, they are like anubias and grow in or out of water...