Should i wash my plants when i change the water in my aquarium?

I noticed when changing my aquariums water that the plant bottoms are filled with brown gunk. Is this good bacteria that I should leave alone or ammonia producing junk?

Yes.

yes

yes

would you like to swim around in black gunk?

Please buy new plants!

no...let the fish clean them

Yes when cleaning your fish tank. Clean everthing. If you put clean water in where dirty plants are then the water will get dirty quickly. Also by an alge-eater to help clean the tank

1 drop of bleach to a gallon of water will clean them up nicely. rinse well.

Depends on the kind of filter you have in your tank. If you have an undergravel filter in your tank then leave it because the good bacteria in the gravel will eat it. If you have any other kind of filter you should clean your gravel out. I clean my gravel as i empty my water out using a gravel cleaner designed to suck up all the waste from the gravel at the same times as emptying the tank of water. If live plants then just give them a rinse with fresh water if false plants then give them a good scrub under running fresh water.Oh and please dont put bleach anywhere near or on anything that will be going into your tank unless you want to rapidly empty your fish tank of the most important part - the fish!

It's junk wash your plants

sounds like it would be a good idea to just use your gravel vacuum to suck off the junk from the plants. It sounds like decaying plant matter so it should come right off the bottom. You don't really want to change all your water and wash the plants because that will disturb your biological bacteria.

U can clean them up, but don't pull the root out from the base, because this will kill your plant. Believe me..i did this b4 and my plant dying after that.

hey what the bleep-missed you-jimp2020 right on this one-hopefully you are running undergravel filter best for closed ecosystem-also shouldnt change all water at once but partial changes about 25% once a week is better-on cleaning plants you can wipe off algae thats about all you need to do-green algae good sign tank is heathy-when removing algae from glass should leave on back wall-also good for tank-be best to leave on all glass but defeats purpose of tank cant see them-used to raise and breed lots of fish much better watching them then most tv-lots of love keep the peace old hippie