Good Site To Buy Most Starting Things (us)

[reportingsjr]

Hi, I have a small 10g tank (hopefully upgrading to a 20-30g soon!) and I wanted to plant it, so I came here!

After reading through many posts, guides, etc I have a bit of an idea on what I want to do, but I'm looking for feedback on my plan and recommendations for a site to buy it from. (only a petsmart local, which is pretty much useless for live plants.)

Flourite as a substrate below large gravel. probably about 2" in front, sloped to about 5" in back.

Also need the potassium nitrate, potassium phosphate, and traces for fertilising.

The nutralite CO2 system I've seen people mention on here, can't seem to find anyone actually selling it online.

for the plants, which I should hopefully be able to get from here with ease:

A bit of java moss, java fern, and amazon sword

and lastly a malaysian trumpet snail.



Any feedback and such accepted, just remember I'm a newbie to plants so I'm probably leaving out something important! Haha

 

[waterdrop]

Yeah, I'm pretty much a beginner like you, trying to learn about it the last I don't know how many months... Periodically it gets asked on here whether there are recommendations/rankings of online plant sources in the US, but usually that question goes pretty much unanswered. A lot of the forum is UK and especially it seems a lot of the active planted tank experienced folks are and they have lots of good European sources, probably all of which can't ship to US because most likely the plants wouldn't make it.

For what its worth, what I've done is to just do repeated searches on the net and make myself a list of sites that sell plants online. In the past I've noticed a subset of these places do get mentioned sometimes on the forum here, but not all of them. (I'd certainly have grabbed my list to share with you but I think its on one of my work computers.) One thing I noticed is that its not hard to at least make a guess at the successful plant sellers, as you can detect care used in their websites - not a guarantee, but a starting point I guess.

Good luck! ~~waterdrop~~

 

[reportingsjr]

Thanks, I guess I'll go from there.

 

[frozenbarb]

Here are good USA sites for planted tank stuff.

http/www.greenleafaquariums.com/ - Store

http/www.rexgrigg.com/ - Store and guide

http/www.aquabotanic.com/ - store

http/www.aquariumplants.com/

Good luck

 

[waterdrop]

Thanks frozen!

I had the other 3 but I had not run across greenleaf before.

~~waterdrop~~