i just bought these from the store and forgot what they were......also do i have to sterelize it to make it safe or something? also how do i clean it?
heres pics:

It kind of looks like an onion plant but it doesn't have a bulb.

what's a bulb?

also he wrote VAL on top the bag.....

I'm pretty sure it's a onion plant.A bulb is a onion shaped plant part from which some plants grow.Like tulips and lilies.They grow from bulbs.Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

do i have to clean before i put it in my tank?

You can rub the leaves under some warm water to clean it. Plants dont do so well in a bleach solution.

Yeah, since it might bring hitch hikers along.So you should quarintine it.

okay how should i do that?

I just keep it in another container and just add some salt and observe it for a while.You don't have to i just do it to be sure it's safe.

aww this sucks i could find any salt at the store so i don't have any salt

You can just do what chishower reccomends.It's works also.I just do it, to be a tiny bit safer.

looks like Itlalian Val, Im growing some (yours looks much nicer then mine!)

But make a solution of 1 part bleach to 19 parts water, and dunk repeatedly. then rinse in dechlorinator.

heres some info one two possible Vals it could be

http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_viewer.php?id=196

http://www.plantgeek.net/plantguide_viewer.php?id=193

actually.. now yours looks like a jungle Val

also i found a little snail also!






i don't feel safe using bleach........also isn't there different types of bleach?
i have clorox........

dont keep that snail! unless you want about 200 of them! they reproduce like lice! or worse, ALGEA!

okay........but i only have one.............how do i get rid of it?

goldie food! drop it in if your fish are big, theyll grab it up, if hteyre small, squish its shell before your drop it in.

awwwwww i don't wanna kill it!

it can't produce by itself rite?
and do have to do the bleach thing? can i just watch it for a couple of days?

I would say just put it in a separate container and keep watch for a few days

keep which one? the plants or the snail?

Oooohh careful with the snails. I'd be scared the plant may still have teeny snails or eggs or something. I got a plant with snails once (didn't know) and found a billion of them in my filter box! I had to strip it down cause of the snails. It sucked.
- Mindy

i just put some plants in of one of my tanks, hope i used warm eough water to clean it
i washed theplants in bucket of very warm water and did a warm rinse under the faucet...................hope this was enough to make it safe

when i set up my new tank i put a few plants in and there was only one snail in there (that i could see) them after a few weeks wile i was waiting for the nitro cycle to compleat, i took a look and there were 6 snails!! there were eating chunks out my nice new plants, so i got some black moors and they took care of the job for me!! killing snails, i give only live food to my fish they look better for it!!