Chia pet seeds in aquarium

[Kengel]

So my dear aunt got me a chia pet for Christmas. So I thought, what am I going to do with all the extra seeds I get from this. I put some in the fish tank of course. Right off the bat my Angels ate some of them, and all of them got sucked into the filter. A week later, I have 2 chia pet sprouts on the bottom of my tank, they grew faster than they did on the actual chia pet. Opinions? Should I put more in to see what happens?

 

[FastFly67]

Can we see some pictures of this? Sounds pretty neat!

 

[The Zigman]

Put the whole chia head in the tank!

No, Just kidding. I wonder what types of glue and plant seed they use in the chia kits.


So...
Sounds like you really scored big this Christmas huh? Man, I always wanted one of those!!

:rofl:

 

[ecoomer45]

From Wikipedia:
Botany

Chia is an annual herb growing to 1 m tall, with opposite leaves 4–8 cm long and 3–5 cm broad. Its flowers are purple or white and are produced in numerous clusters in a spike at the end of each stem.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_hispanica#cite_note-Sahagun-1


I wouldn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_hispanica#cite_note-Sahagun-1

 

[halfmoonplakat]

From Wikipedia:
Botany

Chia is an annual herb growing to 1 m tall, with opposite leaves 4–8 cm long and 3–5 cm broad. Its flowers are purple or white and are produced in numerous clusters in a spike at the end of each stem.


I wouldn't.

Because of the flowers? Is it because they won't sprout underwater or something?

 

[Kengel]

Because of the flowers? Is it because they won't sprout underwater or something?

They did sprout underwater, quicker than they did on my actual Chia-pet. I can't see what's wrong with them from that passage either.

 

[Chrisinator]

They will probably rot because they are non-aquatic.

 

[schaadrak]

Seeing as how they're not grown in a wet environment, they probably won't make it past the sprout stage. But you can keep them in and just remove them if they don't look like they're doing well.

 

[justahannah]

I know chia's edible for people, and they taste a lot like alfalfa sprouts. I kept a chia pet in college just for adding on to my crappy cafeteria sandwiches

 

[schaadrak]

Mmmmm... Chia sandwich.