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10gal pics and adding plants question

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#1 · (Edited)
below is a picture of my set up (as promised but late) but i also had a question. i just got my banana plants yesterday. when adding a plant to a planted tank, must a new plants roots be buried in the dirt, or is the sand fine?

because they are new i dont want to move them too much, but a couple roots of one of the bananas(#2 below) have come up from the sand, prolly got hit by a frog his fav spot to hide is near there. should i be planting deeper or will the roots be fine in the sand/floating?

http://i.imgur.com/qrvkBII.jpg?1

veggies (clockwise) from front left cornor:

some sort of chinese wisteria?, mariomo moss ball, some sort of anubis bunch 1, banana plant 1, mondo grass, some sort of different anubis bunch, banana plant 2, dwarf hair grass.

meat:

my boy Arturo Alffa is in QT, but there are 5 ghost shrimp, 4 CRS (3m, 1 f), 4 trumpet snails, and two ADF (man-lily and Raphael Twain Danger Megatron 3000 the Frog DX aka the frog)

close up of banana trouble:

http://i.imgur.com/1IPi6BE.jpg

also the bananas are brown
 
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#6 ·
Banana plants are awesome. You can just let them chill in the tank, or bury the bananas 1/2 way in the sand. DO NOT bury them all the way. When they are nice and happy, they'll shoot leaves up to the surface and create some nice shade and protection for bubble nesting. If you ever decide you want another banana plant, just shove a full-grown leaf (still attached) under the sand, and it will create an entirely new banana plant.

So anyway to answer your question ... yeah, the sand is fine! Roots will find the dirt.
 
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