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Buying Plants from people on this list?
Hi,
I finally finished setting up my first plant tank last week, and went to
the local stores with my plant book in hand looking for the plants I
had planned to start with in the new tank (an 85gal). What I discovered
was that the plants were much more expensive than I thought, and most of
them looked pretty bad in the stores' dark and dingy "plant" tanks. Being
so anxious to get started, I bought a few assorted plants anyway (a
couple of Ech. bleheri, a few bunches of Hygro. corymbosa, two bunches of
Hygro. polysperma, various rotala, and some Sagittaria). The Sagittaria
and the swords looked so bad I doubt they will survive in my new tank. I
probably shouldn't have got them even with the 50% off. This morning I
noticed that the swords have this dark green fur-like algae all over the
leaves, despite my soaking them in a bleach solution as per reading this
list.
Anyway, would anyone of you with established tanks willing to sell some
of your cuttings/babies etc. to a newbie? I am confident that getting
plants from an experienced hobbyest is safer than getting plants from
stores. Oh yes, since I am in Canada, I am probably restricted to getting
plants plant from within Canada. Importing livestock and plants is likely
too problematic for its worth. Thanks.
John Y. Ching (jyching at watnow_uwaterloo.ca) |
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Lab |
Department of Systems Design Engineering |
University of Waterloo, Canada |