Cleaning plants

[Tom Highum]

Ok if there anyway to possibly clean live plants for a vivarium?
One method i have heard is to put it in a tank and put a large piece of dry ice in water then restrict the ventilation. You are supposed to keep this going for about 2 days. The idea is that the plants can survive the high Co2 levels but no oxygen will kill of parasites and the like. The problem is its hard for me to get dry ice because i am to young.
Any views on this method? Any other methods?

[Kurt]

Jen (adawinters) mentioned something about this in one of her posts.

[Tom Highum]

can you link it?

[Kurt]

I don't know what thread it is.

[Tom Highum]

Do you remember anything about it?

[Kurt]

Not much. Go to her profile click on statistics and then click on all posts by her.

[SludgeMunkey]

Ok if there anyway to possibly clean live plants for a vivarium?
One method i have heard is to put it in a tank and put a large piece of dry ice in water then restrict the ventilation. You are supposed to keep this going for about 2 days. The idea is that the plants can survive the high Co2 levels but no oxygen will kill of parasites and the like. The problem is its hard for me to get dry ice because i am to young.
Any views on this method? Any other methods?

I feel the dry ice method is more work than it is worth. It will kill many plants off, especially tropicals. I put mine in the freezer for ten minutes, then blow them down with canned air for computer cleaning.

[Tom Highum]

The dry ice wont kill the plants if you do it right. You just cant let the plants touch the dry ice.

[SludgeMunkey]

Some plants, especially tropicals, suffer from CO2 poisoning and die off. Plus, dry ice is a pain to work with.

[John]

5% bleach is commonly recommended - soak for 5 minutes or so. Beware that some plants will die because of this.

[Tom Highum]

hmm. ok thanks. any plants that you know will?