Tropica Plants, Expensive?

[afroturf]

I've read on many threads of people saying how tropica plants are so expensive, I have to disagree. I've recently set up a new 25g tank and I used 1 pot of Downoi, 5 pots of HC at £3.95 per pot, 3 Vallis nana at £4.95, all from tropica along with a few plants that didn't come from them, the Downoi cost £5.95 and I got at least 8 decent heads from it, when I split up the vallis I got around 9 plants per pot = 55p per plant and the HC covers almost half the 30"x15" tank bottom.
I think this shows that the prices are not to bad. Plus the quality is worth the cost compared to other UK retailers.

 

[Castellop123]

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[George Farmer]

I guess "expensive" is a relative term.

I agree with you that Tropica are, IMO, good value for money, and their quality is superb.

However, I do understand the attraction with cheaper mail-order "collections" though, especially for newcomers that aren't sure what they want or suits their set up. We were all there once.

 

[shrimply]

Personally as a newcomer I don't want to start off with tropica plants. I am going to get a big order from greenline once I fit all my new equipment and stuff. Basically To make sure everything is alright and once I know that everything is growing properly I will start the actual aquascaping and order specific plants from tropica.

This might not be the best way to go about things but I see very little point in ordering good plants and then managing to kill them off.

 

[Sibelius]

Being a "not quite so newcomer any more", even after 2 years of fishkeeping and improvement, I normally use greenline to plant out my tanks very cheaply, then gradually bring in more quality tropica plants (as and when I can afford them being 15, with next to no source of income!) I agree that they are higher quality, and well worth getting.

 

[Dave Spencer]

I am of the mind that when I need to fill out a new tank with weeds I will use Greenline, but once the tank is ready for scaping and plants of my choice, then I am off to Tropica.

Cheers, Dave.

 

[Castellop123]

 

[Miss Wiggle]

i'm awful for impulse buying plants. i decide i want to change something, drag Ian round and find something I like that's suitable.

because of my impatience i don't bother with tropica, but I think I really should.

all the plants Ian's got from them are lovely

 

[Squid]

I'm lucky.. my LFS has stocks tropica plants. If they haven't got what i want, they will add it to their order for me..

Good stuff
Squid

 

[fish soup]

I'm lucky.. my LFS has stocks tropica plants. If they haven't got what i want, they will add it to their order for me..

Good stuff
Squid

Hi I`m new to this from Ireland where the fish keeping stockists are few and far between and plants suitable for a tank are considered as suspicious aliens.

\i am therefore extremely grateful to Tropica plants online as they have been a life saver. Strangely enough the only shop where I can buy tropical fish supplied tetra plant substrate which has been very successful.(They have however run out of any fish and their tanks will be empty for 3 weeks.)