Bamboo plants
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Water changes, and Tetra makes a product called easy balance that has nitraban in it... I tried it once when my nitrates spiked, and it went down to a safe level again fairly quickly. Bamboo isn't really a plant you grow completely underwater. It's roots like to be underwater, but that's about the extent of it, like Mgamer said, they will rot and end up causing you more pollution!
I've thought of setting up some type of floating deal, or fastening bamboo to the interior of my canopy and letting the roots drape into the water, and the plants grow up out of the canopy.
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Bamboo (true bamboo) does not enjoy being even partially submerged in water. It will die and rot in your tank.
The plant you're probably referring to (Known as "Lucky Bamboo") is actually a member of the lilly familly called Dracaena. It, too, does not enjoy being submerged. This plant is commonly found as a grouping of cuttings in the consumer market and will only grow if the bottom of the stems are kept in an inch of water or the cuttings are planted in a sandy soil mixture that is kept moist at all times. If you submerge this plant in your tank, it will die and rot.
As has already been mentioned, you'd be better off with water changes. Quick-growing plants like hornwort, water sprite, anacharis, vals, duckweed and others will all aid in eating up nitrates. However, if you're not ready to take care of those plants, you'd be better off just watching your feeding/stocking levels and doing water changes with gravel vaccing once a week.
The plant you're probably referring to (Known as "Lucky Bamboo") is actually a member of the lilly familly called Dracaena. It, too, does not enjoy being submerged. This plant is commonly found as a grouping of cuttings in the consumer market and will only grow if the bottom of the stems are kept in an inch of water or the cuttings are planted in a sandy soil mixture that is kept moist at all times. If you submerge this plant in your tank, it will die and rot.
As has already been mentioned, you'd be better off with water changes. Quick-growing plants like hornwort, water sprite, anacharis, vals, duckweed and others will all aid in eating up nitrates. However, if you're not ready to take care of those plants, you'd be better off just watching your feeding/stocking levels and doing water changes with gravel vaccing once a week.