How do I plant aquatic plant bulbs?

Hi, I went to petco and purchased a package of 6 aquatic plant bulbs, a medley of Aponogeton, Water Lily, and Onion plant. I was wondering how to plant these, I bought them 12 days ago, without any sign of growth. The onion plant keeps floating up, and the fish keep on nibbling on the onion skin like layer, its quite damaged, will it still grow?

How do I plant aquatic plant bulbs?
I just bought myself 2 of them 2 months ago


One of them sunk to the bottom and startet to sprout, it has now I think about 6 long stemmed leaves


The other one didn't sink to the bottom it stayed up and didn't sprout so i had to through it out


It takes about 20-25 days before you will see them sprout








Hope that helps


good luck








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Reply:Good luck. I have bought many bulbs and I can never get them to stay in the gravel or bloom. I stioll have one floating in there from 5 months ago that hasn't done anything yet. Mine even said you didn't have to plant it in the gravel.
Reply:i have also never had much success with bulbs. i have one left in a tank from over 1 yr ago, but every time it starts to grow, it dies off or gets munched (my fish aren't even plant eaters!) i have successfully kept an onion plant, but i bought it as a plant, not a bulb. generally with those, you are supposed to leave a little of the top of the bulb exposed, but like you my fish, expecially the pleco's, liked to peel off the onion-like layers. the onion plant is generally pretty sensative to being hurt, so it may not grow. rather than buying bulbs, i would try getting an adult plant. they may be more expensive but you're more likely to have success. i recommend amazon swards if you have lots of substrate and adequate lighting. they also breed easily under the right conditions. they'll send off a shoot and 2-10 new plants will start growing on the end of it. these can be taken off when older and planted where you please.

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