Plants on Ebay

[troy tucker]

I have some Anubias you can have.

[LordBarron7692]

You might want to give aqua bid a shot that's normally where I get plants from and most sellers are in the states

[Beth777]

I think I might have 2 petcos closer to me than the petsmart. I'll have to check them out and see what I find. I need to get some plants into the 10gal on that white sand so that I don't constantly see snail poo. LOL

Do they actually come in "pet carrier" packaging? There's a Petco & a Petsmart within fairly easy driving distance from me, but the Petco is on a street I frequent more, so I rarely go to Petsmart.

They always seem, to me, to carry about the same range & quality of stuff, but Petsmart charges more for their's...


Oh yes, to the OP: I've had good luck ordering from "extraplant" on ebay. It's a Florida outfit that uses water similar to what we have here in Harris Co., so there's no finicky acclimations (much) with ordered plants. Their prices are just a tad higher than the ebay sellers who just want to sell you a handful of overgrowth from their tanks (not bad if you get someone good... terrible otherwise). Still they combine orders, though they do charge an extra $1.75 for each added plant. Orders $88 & up are free shipping while they run that promotional. They take care to package your order nicely and ship expedited or higher within a day or two of receiving your payment. Add a note to order asking for cool/ice pack & they include it for nominal fee.

I've had all plants arrive healthy & well even when I ordered at the start of summer, but it's a chancy buisness at that time of year & gets worse as temps climb.

Still, keep them in mind as a decent seller... They have a nice range of plants, including some I've never seen in the local LFSs.

Of course this is just my experience, no guarantees that anyone else's would be the same.

[Beth777]

I do like the way petsmart packages their plants. Started to try some plants from a local LFS recently but noticed some fish swimming around them that had ick.

You can get also some pretty decent low light, low maint crypts and anubias from most Pestmarts now. The topfin ones

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/10/27/emu5ugem.jpg

They are like $8-10, but you get a decent amount of plants. I picked up a few crypts from them a while ago, doing very well in the tank.

[Beth777]

Just did a search for extraplant on ebay and am now following them. Thank all of you for the great advice. I'm pretty anxious to try plants AGAIN. lol Especially since it can make tank maintenance easier. Because of heat maybe I'm better off buying local for now.

Extraplants is doing a buy 3 get one free if any of you are interested.

Do they actually come in "pet carrier" packaging? There's a Petco & a Petsmart within fairly easy driving distance from me, but the Petco is on a street I frequent more, so I rarely go to Petsmart.

They always seem, to me, to carry about the same range & quality of stuff, but Petsmart charges more for their's...


Oh yes, to the OP: I've had good luck ordering from "extraplant" on ebay. It's a Florida outfit that uses water similar to what we have here in Harris Co., so there's no finicky acclimations (much) with ordered plants. Their prices are just a tad higher than the ebay sellers who just want to sell you a handful of overgrowth from their tanks (not bad if you get someone good... terrible otherwise). Still they combine orders, though they do charge an extra $1.75 for each added plant. Orders $88 & up are free shipping while they run that promotional. They take care to package your order nicely and ship expedited or higher within a day or two of receiving your payment. Add a note to order asking for cool/ice pack & they include it for nominal fee.

I've had all plants arrive healthy & well even when I ordered at the start of summer, but it's a chancy buisness at that time of year & gets worse as temps climb.

Still, keep them in mind as a decent seller... They have a nice range of plants, including some I've never seen in the local LFSs.

Of course this is just my experience, no guarantees that anyone else's would be the same.

[sfasu]

Kaytlu - I've shopped with extraplant too. The last set barely made it, and that was about 3 weeks ago. Good seller though, and the later delivery wasn't their fault.

Yes - the petsmart plants come in that exact packaging.

[kaytlu]

Do they actually come in "pet carrier" packaging? There's a Petco & a Petsmart within fairly easy driving distance from me, but the Petco is on a street I frequent more, so I rarely go to Petsmart.

They always seem, to me, to carry about the same range & quality of stuff, but Petsmart charges more for their's...


Oh yes, to the OP: I've had good luck ordering from "extraplant" on ebay. It's a Florida outfit that uses water similar to what we have here in Harris Co., so there's no finicky acclimations (much) with ordered plants. Their prices are just a tad higher than the ebay sellers who just want to sell you a handful of overgrowth from their tanks (not bad if you get someone good... terrible otherwise). Still they combine orders, though they do charge an extra $1.75 for each added plant. Orders $88 & up are free shipping while they run that promotional. They take care to package your order nicely and ship expedited or higher within a day or two of receiving your payment. Add a note to order asking for cool/ice pack & they include it for nominal fee.

I've had all plants arrive healthy & well even when I ordered at the start of summer, but it's a chancy buisness at that time of year & gets worse as temps climb.

Still, keep them in mind as a decent seller... They have a nice range of plants, including some I've never seen in the local LFSs.

Of course this is just my experience, no guarantees that anyone else's would be the same.

[sfasu]

You can get also some pretty decent low light, low maint crypts and anubias from most Pestmarts now. The topfin ones

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/10/27/emu5ugem.jpg

They are like $8-10, but you get a decent amount of plants. I picked up a few crypts from them a while ago, doing very well in the tank.

[Beth777]

Thanks guys, I'll check them out. If I see that I actually have a chance of not killing them real quick I might would be willing to add flourish or root tabs, something to help them grow. I just don't want it to turn into a big chore.

They have a nice collection on plants. A little stiff on price but good quality plants.

[ptran]

Aquarium Design Group.

They have a nice collection on plants. A little stiff on price but good quality plants.

[sfasu]

Beth777 - like troy said, Aquarium Design Group. They have a section under the vendors forum on here.

You can add plants immediately. No need to wait.

[troy tucker]

What's ADG?

Aquarium Design Group.

[Beth777]

What's ADG?

Bety777 - Just thought of something. Check out ADG some time. They have a bunch of different and rarer plants that come over from Europe. Some really nice stuff. May cost a lil more, but high quality and no shipping disasters to worry about.[/QUOTE]

[Beth777]

Killing them is why I want them cheap. I also want plants that don't need anything but light. Do I have to wait awhile before I add plants to the newly set up 10gal?

sfasu> did I get Plants from you? All the plants I have are from other members here. I'm not even sure what all the plants I have are. I have killed lots of plants in the past. Now I do pretty well. I haven't killed a plant in a few years. It was important to me not to spend to much as I was learning on a low budget. I could never afford E-bay.
Now as some nice people here helped me with plants. I give back to other learning. By giving plants.

[Beth777]

Thank you so much! I hadn't even thought of that. If I order any I'll definitely stick with US. You probably just saved me some hard earned money.

I've window shopped on ebay for plants, & it seems to me that most of those really fantastic bargains are from overseas. When you add the shipping $ required to the ebay listed price it's not so fantastic after all. Not to mention the fact that overseas shipping at this time of year would probably result in finding a box of "goop" delivered to your doorstep.

I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade, here, I was disappointed myself when I realized the total cost, shipping time etc.

All that said, I have ordered ebay plants, and from US dealers that pack with cool/ice packs and bubblewrap (extra insulation). If you are within reasonable distance of your local UPS, FEDEX or USPS terminal, a good idea during hot times is to ask to have the package held there for you to pick up instead of letting your box of plants tour the area inside a hot delivery truck.

Sometimes it seems that you just have to order at least out of state to get particular types of plants.