Mystery plant sprouted

[mbjrc]

Hey, I just set up a tank last week, and have yet to put anything in it. I looked in the tank this morning and there is a small plant with 2 leaves that just sprouted. Does anyone have any ideas of what kind of plant it could be? Do aquatic plants have seeds?

Thanks

 

[mr funktastic]

that sounds like anew one to me. did u have plants in it before and one got stuck in there somehow?i dont thing that they have seeds. can u get a pic that would help alot in identifying it.

 

[Apocalypse_Gold]

My brother (hashbaz) had a volunteer Alternanthera reineckii from a seed, so it does happen. Was this a used tank? What do you have in it?

 

[mbjrc]

I have used this tank before, but that was over a year ago, and I cleaned the tank out before I set it up. The substrate is a brand new bag of flourite.

 

[malkore]

its the brand new flourite. While not common, its no uncommon either to have a random plant sprout up.

its technically a terrestrial plant, so don't expect it to live long...but it might be fun to grow.


incidentally, I had a 5gallon i just setup again, with used flourite that was kept in a clean kitty litter tub, and sealed.
it had been stowed away for at least 5-6 months.
low and behold, I had 5 live snails crawl outta the flourite after I put water back in the tank, and a random sprout show up, but it only lived 2 days.
the snails are still fine. just little grey pond snails.