Yeah they are actually fake plant's for making flower arrangement's etc, i found them at the local $2 shop.
You get about 10x time's the quantity of plant's compared to the little aquarium plant's, and there 1/4 of the price too.
They've got thick metal wire inside them so you can bend them where you want the branches to go, and for the bottom of the stem's i just drilled some holes through a 150mm long piece of 12mm stainless rod then fed the stem's through and bend them up and around the rod.
The turtle hate's it coz he can't rip the bigger plant's up and move them all around.
Both the 4ft and 2ft tank's i found as hard rubbish so it's a very budget set up, they aren't perfect both have a lot of scratch's but you usually your just looking at the turtle and fish so it doesn't really matter.
I found the big Eheim filter as hard rubbish too, just cleaned it up in bleach it's like this one-
And i was given a big remote Eheim professional 3 filter set up too which will be going into the turtle tank soon
It look's like this
Anyway i'm just making some fork leg guard's for the PW atm