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i recently decided to redoccorate my 20 gallon tank with some more naturally looking plants. I highly doubt they are real silk but they are the softer feeling plants none the less. Anyways i boiled all my new additions before adding them to the tank but after adding them i noticed that on one of the plants the leaves became all curled up and have not returned to normal sinse. I figure this came from boiling them. All the other plants (which were the same brand stayed normal). Do you know what could have cased this and how i can get them back to normal? It has been a few days now. Thanx in advance.

deffinitly from the boiling.
happened to me once

Steve711

What were you trying to do make a silk stew. It is a wonder they all did not just curl up. To realy make any thing safe by boiling it would have to at least 15 minutes of constant hard boiling water.

Another for using live plants.

Keith

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Its not silk... its synthetic.

Synthetic is basically plastic, and if you superheat plastic, it warps.

Boiling is not a great idea for fake plants. Sorry

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