Plants/moss

[darkcastle119]

Hi all,, being abit new to the hobby, want to get some plants and moss for my tank as its a little bare... I want it heavily planted i have a nice piece of bogwood to go in the middle of the tank that i want to moss the bottom of,,, anyways looking on the bay and see lots and lots of deals etc are these any good as abit worried about the delivery process i.e will these dry out/arrive dead?

 

[Aqua Tom]

Hi all,, being abit new to the hobby, want to get some plants and moss for my tank as its a little bare... I want it heavily planted i have a nice piece of bogwood to go in the middle of the tank that i want to moss the bottom of,,, anyways looking on the bay and see lots and lots of deals etc are these any good as abit worried about the delivery process i.e will these dry out/arrive dead?

I have bought a lot of plants from Ebay before & had no problems. Go for it.


Tom

 

[welshfish1]

I'd advise you check with the sellers that they are definitely actual plants not just cuttings as some are

 

[darkcastle119]

thanks for the advice .... well just ordered a mix of 40 different plants should get me started cant wait to get them now

 

[Tizer]

i wouldnt ordered mixed plants, many of them wont be able to survive in an aquarium.

Post a link to what you got for confirmation.

 

[waterdrop]

Yes, an amazing number of small "groundcover" plants (ones with white markings mixed with green come to mind) meant for people's yards are sold as aquatic plants and of course die after they are submerged. These sales happen both in LFS situations and online sales but from watching threads here on TFF I'd almost venture that it happens more in the LFS than over the online transactions.. I don't know, what does anyone else think?

One great thing about plants in an aquarium, for beginners, is that you have at least a 50/50 chance, I think, that just throwing them in there will result in wonderful success! Some people just have the right water and light and just seem to luck in to the right plants! Getting a lot of species can also give you a good start on knowing which ones will happen to live in your particular situation, if they all don't.

On the other hand, for some people it's hard, for whatever reason. If it turns out to be hard then I like to think of four ways to organize my thoughts: lighting is a skill set, CO2 is a skill set, plant nutrition is a skill set and finally algae is a skill set that somewhat requires the other three as a bit of a prerequisite. Beginner learning in all these skill sets is widely available in the resource articles in the planted section and help threads both here and there can bring more directed help sometimes. Good luck!

~~waterdrop~~

 

[darkcastle119]

heres the link to the actual ebay listing

http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250802187181&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123

looks quite genuine,,but then i'm a noob at this and cant go wrong really with price?!?


my tank condition is good for keeping plants as i had before just fancied a change

 

[OldMan47]

That is quite a selection of plants darkcastle. I must say that some are high light plants while others are low light plants. Depending on how much light you have, you could easily lose half of them due to inadequate light levels. I suspect that sale is posted by someone running very high light and fertilizers and is more or less a list of surplus from their own tank that needs weeding.

 

[darkcastle119]

well tbh my lights are on all the time very rarely do they go off, doesnt seem to effect the fish, and the last plants flourished in my old tank, i'll see what they are like anyways and post some pics (got a whole project to post up )

 

[brian2708]

Ideally, you should be only running your tank lights for around 8 hours.

I use a timer plug on mine. Works a treat. Just scares the crap out of us sometimes when we don't expect it to come on / go off!!