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Buying plants online?
While my local aquarium places have plants, usually it's a small selection, and I can't say I think the plants look like they're very well cared for. I've found a couple of online sources, such as aquaticplantdepot.com. Anyone here have experience with such dealers? Are you more likely to get a healthy specimen than you might be just by chance to find at your local store? |
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Buying plants online?
"Adam Gottschalk" wrote in message ... While my local aquarium places have plants, usually it's a small selection, and I can't say I think the plants look like they're very well cared for. I've found a couple of online sources, such as aquaticplantdepot.com. Anyone here have experience with such dealers? Are you more likely to get a healthy specimen than you might be just by chance to find at your local store? All of my plants came from online vendors- most from Aquabid.com. Much larger selection than I could possibly find locally. Treat for snails! -- Toni http://www.cearbhaill.com/discus.htm |
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Buying plants online?
"Adam Gottschalk" wrote in message
... While my local aquarium places have plants, usually it's a small selection, and I can't say I think the plants look like they're very well cared for. I've found a couple of online sources, such as aquaticplantdepot.com. Anyone here have experience with such dealers? Are you more likely to get a healthy specimen than you might be just by chance to find at your local store? I've never had a problem with online purchases of plants. Even if they take 2 days to arrive they survive and give me much more variety than I can find locally. Graham. |
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Buying plants online?
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:54:51 +1000, "Graham Broadbridge"
wrote: "Adam Gottschalk" wrote in message ... While my local aquarium places have plants, usually it's a small selection, and I can't say I think the plants look like they're very well cared for. I've found a couple of online sources, such as aquaticplantdepot.com. Anyone here have experience with such dealers? Are you more likely to get a healthy specimen than you might be just by chance to find at your local store? I've never had a problem with online purchases of plants. Even if they take 2 days to arrive they survive and give me much more variety than I can find locally. Graham. I have used only online stores to stock my 5 tanks. Very good luck once I understood that with my light hoods I needed to get only "low light" (less than 2 watts per gallon) plants. I don't know much about plants so I bought packaged assortments. Not all worked out as well, but most survived well and some really flourished. I don't add any fertilizer, I just let those that like my tank's condition do their thing. I last bought plants the end of last summer. The plants that survived look great. I think I have about 7 species. I remember buying from LFS when I lived in a big city. I didn't know anything then about plants and would pick that which caught my eye. Buying assortments that are selected by light conditions brings surprises, that is part of the fun. |
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