beakin out my angry face.

<-- this one, not this one : (cause I'm kina baffled why people use the beating a dead horse icon when man...I'm pissed but this is not a subject beat into the ground..anyway...)

I was sold this an aqua fern at Petsmart a few months ago. I forgot the name of it and so I just went to look it up and I find this

Aqua Fern
Trichomanes javanicum

Family: Unknown
Also known as:
[ Common ] Boreno Fern
[ Scientific ]
Region: Unknown

Care
Not a true aquarium plant. If kept in the aquarium it will slowy rot, die and pollute your tank.

WTF?!?! When I asked about the plant (when i bought it) she said "Oh its in the same family as a java fern - your tank will love it!" and I never thought that they'd sell a plant that wasn't meant for water :(
plus I have NO IRL fishie friends so I haven't seen java fern first hand and just went with it. I should have busted out my phone and googled but I didn't and now I'm all kinds of grumpy.

What do I do with this plant now? Its grown a good bit in my tank and now I have 2 portions of it instead of one so I never would have assumed it would rot! Do I wait til such a thing happens? I don't like to play with fire. Can I go back to Petsmart and kick that lady in the shin and yell at her? If I still had the reciept I'd run back up there with it and demand some action.

booo to you aqua fern.

Lol I would get it out as it might pollute ur water so I would grow where it's suppose so u have it lol or sell it to someone that would want it besides aquarium

LFS will sell many types of bog plants that will not live in your tank. Research is the only way to know if a plant is truly aquatic.

I tend to kill anything I try to grow outside of a tank setting lol I'm your garden's worst nightmare. I might see if my mom wants anything to do with it - but that means I have to figure out how to take care of it in soil and air, I'm assuming it likes to be watered a lot...

I think it might have come with a friend because shortly after I added it, a mysterious crab-grass looking plant came around, it grows 2'' and shoots off babies. I have NO clue what it is but I've been trying to get it all out for a while and new ones keep popping up. I'll get one of its pieces out and get a pic - maybe someone knows what it is.

that's my weird little invasive plant

looks like some type of dwarf crypt.

ya i hate petcrap plants

normally I'd go to the little locally owned store by my house for anything - but I moved. Now I don't know where the good places are and I'm in an isolated area. We went for a dog collar so it was a bit of an impluse. I've got a list now of locally owned fish stores that I plan on checking out this weekend if possible. I like my little store by my other house though :( I like my punky tattooed guy who always tries to get me to keep lizards and the nerdy little petite girl who is so quiet she's hard to hear (but they both know SOOO much!!!!!) and the little older couple who own it (probably in their 70's) who said they didn't have kids because they wanted fish more LOL
I miss my store :(

Hmm seems strange that the plant would make it several months and continue to grow if it was not meant to be an aquatic plant. Most non aquatic plant will rot fairly quickly submerged vice immersed. Then some plants have two different forms (above and below the water line) such as leaves and flower growth.
Do they still have any of it for sale at the store maybe you could pull the real name of it there. Scientific name is possible to make sure that is what it is.

Trichomanes javanicum
thats the scientific name. Its what I got when I looked up my plant, the picture is identical so I'm pretty secure that its the proper name.

Well that being the case then I would remove it from the tank. Not worth taking the chance if it suddenly rots

its out - I've got the roots wrapped in a wet cloth (we don't do paper products) so I can see if my mom would lke to plant it. Upon close inspection, some of the low leaves are browning but not much - odd since it did do a lot of growing (but in some plants the older leaves shed naturally when healthy). I hope that she wants to plant it, I'd hate to just toss it - feels wrong somehow. I also got out a lot of the crabgrass looking stuff, it was so invasive and attaching itself to everything! I got out 2 handfuls of each. Crazy, right? I bought some moss off aquabid and the guy said he's tossing in frogbit? I think? and I've got duckweed on the way (my fry like to swim high) that I'll share with our koi/goldfish pond. I usually try to stock up on plants overe the spring so I can get a lot to the pond. I had black skirted tetras once, my friend's crazy (no, really) boyfriend was going to flush them so I grabbed them from her, they nipped at my guppies so we put them in the pond (One looked sickly too) and omg they flourished SOO much with the koi!!! I put in 4 tetras and they multiplied rather quickly! They've survived 2 winters already. Anyway, since this was growing so nicely I was looking forward to sharing it with the pond but noooooo it just had to be non-aquatic.

I have this in two tanks and it is growing just fine. In fact what is in the second tank came from the one in the first tank. I have had it about 6 months, the fish and shrimp love it. In fact I love it, it is so different from the regular aquraium plants. Leave it, it will do fine.

Grow it like Java fern, do not bury the roots, mine just sit on the bottom of the substrate. When I vacuum I just move it, to another place.

Fortunatley I did not pay anything for mine they were tossing all their plants out I asked if I could take them ....well 47 plastic tubes 9 plants lived/were saved including 3 of these ferns which do quite well sitting next to my aquariums lol in pots. The one I did try to grow in a tank did not disolve it kinda just became a hard almost "twiggy" in texture. Next time you go to pet____ fill in the blank grab a book off the shelf and lok the plant up I have to do this alot at pet stores.


Kick the chick in the shins for me as well

You can not bury the roots of this plant in the substrate (it will rot). Tie it to a rock, driftwood or just let it sit on the bottom.