Pmp

Can you add bamboo plants to fish tanks i saw them at petsmart and i hve a bunch of them at my house would they be good for a fish tank?

sirdarksol

You can put lucky bamboo in a tank as long as its leaves are above the water line.

GouramiGirl1221

Is lucky bamboo the stuff that grows in little bitty pots with rocks? We've got some sitting in our dorm room that keeps getting knocked over, so putting it in the aquarium would be a great way of getting it out of the way.

sirdarksol

Yes. Nearly everything that's sold as bamboo in this country is lucky bamboo. It's in another class of plant from real bamboo, but it kind of looks like bamboo, so people started calling it bamboo.

Red1313

I don't think that many people could handel real bamboo, in ideal conditions it can grow like a foot a day.

sirdarksol

Actually, a lot of people use them as ornamental plants. They don't do well in pots because they spread by rhizomes, and will eventually get root-bound (especially if they're a fast-spreader), but they do well in gardens.