just get myself a very small banana plant b/c it's on sale today ... what kind of environment does it prefer ? attach to rock or burried in gravel ? my gravel layer is very thin ... thanks

Banana plants can just sit on your gravel. If conditions are good they will send out long white roots fron the ends of the "bananas". I have had mixed results with these plants. The ones I did the best with were in my tank when it was positioned near an east facing window (it actually bloomed). Since moving to a new apartment I havn't been as lucky, I think I'm going to have to remove the ones I have now because they arn't doing well at all.

Well, good luck!

I have one. While it has never bloomed it looks just fine and gets new leaves ever so often. I dont do anything different for it. I just dropped it in and let it go. But it is in one of my low light tanks. Maybe I will move it to the high light one.

I used to have one, it never became huge or anything but it lived through a lot. Sometimes my big fish would like to carry it and bump it around, I think he was playing with it.