Wrong plants

So I recently figured out that I accidentally bought plants for my aquarium that are not meant to fully submerged in water but they seem to be doing fine in my tank and I have had them for several weeks. So do you guys think I need to take them out or not? Can they hurt anything?

 

you could tie them to some taller driftwood, put them in a floating breeder net, use bricks to raise any potted plants up closer to the top...what type of plants are they?

 

This is so bad but I honestly can't remember. And I never thought about that.

 

Can you post a picture?

 

The second pictures it's the one in the front.

 

The first one is dracaena, the second looks like peace lily. I would get them out of there before they start to rot, but do it slowly. Having been immersed for so long it will be a shock to suddenly find themselves in the relatively dry air we breathe

They do make nice houseplants though!

 

Ok thank you so much for the help.

 

If you want something that looks similar but is aquatic there are various types of Amazon sword, Anubias, and Cryptocoryne that might make nice substitutes for the Peace Lily. The dracaena is a little trickier to replace. Variegated leaves are not common in aquatic plants! For the vertical look though you might choose narrow-leaf sword (Echinodorus tenellus) or some type of vallisneria. Corkscrew Val is nice!

 

Ok thanks I'll defiantly have to get some to replace so I'll try to find some of these that you listed for me and check them out.

 

So I recently figured out that I accidentally bought plants for my aquarium that are not meant to fully submerged in water but they seem to be doing fine in my tank and I have had them for several weeks. So do you guys think I need to take them out or not? Can they hurt anything?

You have to read labels carefully, I have done the same thing. Petco used to be bad about having those kind of plants in the fish area in with regular aquarium plants. May still do it.

 

Petsmart has them mixed together the fully submersible plants to the partially submersible. Had to read the labels to see which was which

 

I earlier mixed up the Piece Lily with anubias that looked alike. So this could be an Anubia. If so it shouldn't be planted in the substrate but attached to a rock / piece of wood.

 

It does look very similar to an Anubias I had but that one grew about 2 feet in height and there was no way it could fit in the small tank I had. So either way, you'll probably need to remove that plant

 

Yes I got them from petsmart and then went back weeks later and realized that I had made the mistake. But they are out and I have new plants that are actually for aquariums and can be fully submerged.

 

I'm going to make a small area for them to go in in my other tank so they can stick out like they are suppose to

 

Your tank looks great!

 

Thanks I've just had to redo it here about a week ago had some problems with the nitrate levels so had to uproot everything and do a full gravel vacuum. But I love the way it turned out. And my fish seem to enjoy it better.

 

The second pictures it's the one in the front.

I totally just bought the same plants from petco. They also had a small stalk of lucky bamboo with them. I've taken them out and planted in very moist soil and am going to let them dry out slowly. They were fully submerged in the tank when I bought them ...

 

Keep misting them or somehow keep the humidity up until they've had a chance to adjust to the dryer air