ok, so I got a live plant, hornwort to be exact. I was qt'ing it in an icecream pail, I gave it plenty of light, it was doing fine but now its completely fallen apart! I quickly took the main parts and put them in my tank, theres not much left of it now and I have about 100 litle pieces, why did that happen?

awww that has to suck shamu i have had plants do that it usually means that were sick or dieing

all the parts that fell of turned brown now, the parts that I put in the tank are fine, excpet the fact that the goldfish keep uprooting them and then eat the stem on the bottom Im gonna get some more, and gonna try to secure it better, Im also going to get some java fern and maybe java moss, how do u attach them to rocks?

wow, that's crazy! how long did you have it in QT?

I dont know, around 5 days I think when it started falling apart

did you do the bleach dip, or something else to disinfect it? maybe that's what caused it.

no I didnt

That's too bad your plant died. I'm looking to get a bunch of hornwort pretty soon too.

If you still have the pieces, you should bag them up and demand a refund. A plant usually doesn't die that quickly.

Did you dechlorinate the water?