bying plants

[psychadelicdrea]

Has anyone ever bought plants from http://store.yahoo.com/aquaticplantdepot/index.html

they have assortments you can buy for differnt gallon size tanks 10-20 gallon and so on and also have a asian assortment and a south american plant assortment? or is their any outher good sites to purchace plants.....the asian and south american assortments were only about 30 bucks
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[alinute_m]

I bought plants from that store recently (not a set, just chose some separate plants). Overall, I guess, my experience was average/positive, it took them 1.5 - 2 weeks to ship them, plants were packaged ok, I ordered some MTS snails - arrived very much alive and well. They have beautiful anubias, for the price I really got a nice plant with a gazilion of leaves, liudwigia also arrived looking just beautiful and has adopted well to the aquarium. Rotala magenta, however, did not ship well (they are fragile plants), so I threw it away. Cryptocorines were tiny, but adapted well (although they should have shipped bigger - more established crypts). Java fern looked and looks pretty good (lots of leaves, established plant w/roots). They were out of java moss (had to reorder them from floridadriftwood.com)

Overall, I'd say experience was positive but not spectacular. I would order from them again just for anubias, but for more exotic plants I will try aquariumplant.com.

 

[steveywinet]

I've ordered from both: aquaticplantdepot.com and aquariumplants.com. Both did a nice job and I wouldn't hesitate to order from either again. IMO aquariumplants.com was a bit better -- bigger healthier looking plants and overshipped on the Vals I ordered. Both shipments arrived with stowaways (snails); so be prepared to deal with that.

 

[Quartermain]

I've purchased plants from both aquaticplantdepot.com and aquariumplants.com as well. I would agree with what's been said, you can't go wrong with either company. However the plants I recieved from aquariumplants.com were considerably fuller, taller and more mature. For example I purchased Anubias Nana (planted) from both stores. The Anubias I recieved from aquaticplantdepto.com was about 5'' tall, five or six leaves, and in good health. The Anubias I recieved from aquariumplants.com was nearly 9'' tall with 10 leaves and a flowering stem in full bloom.

Perhaps this is not what you'll get every time you purchase an Anubias Nana from aquariumplants.com.. or maybe it is? But I think it's great that they didn't just take any old average looking plant from the bunch and stick it in with my order. It's a great incentive to buy from them again.