Where do you get your live plants from?

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stymie

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I just switched my 180g from Oscars to a community tank. Now that the Oscars are gone, I'd like to add a couple of live plants. My LFS doesn't have a wide variety. A few sellers on Ebay have some interesting specimens. Has anyone bought plants from Ebay sellers? Or does anyone have a website they like? I'm now keeping Severum and Silver Dollars - both known for eating plants, so I'm looking for affordable more than exotic. Your help is appreciated.
 
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mr.bigglesworth

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No plants with silver dollars. They will eat any and all plants. Also, is that a common pleco in your avatar? If so, you can't keep most live plants with common plecos either as they will uproot everything. I have severums in my planted discus tank. I've never heard of severums eating live plants. The only thing you could maybe try would be a few species of floating plants. Particularly duckweed and frogbit. Frogbit is illegal in parts of the US. Be aware of that. Like I believe in Cali, Arizona they are illegal.
 
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stymie

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Feb 5, 2011
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Philadelphia, PA
mr.bigglesworth said:
No plants with silver dollars. They will eat any and all plants. Also, is that a common pleco in your avatar? If so, you can't keep most live plants with common plecos either as they will uproot everything. I have severums in my planted discus tank. I've never heard of severums eating live plants. The only thing you could maybe try would be a few species of floating plants. Particularly duckweed and frogbit. Frogbit is illegal in parts of the US. Be aware of that. Like I believe in Cali, Arizona they are illegal.
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You might be right. I put a large Romaine leaf in today and it was gone in about an hour. The SD's looked like Piranhas on a wounded animal. I was hoping I could put some thicker leafed plants in the tank, but after seeing the Romaine destruction, I may need to rethink. Thanks for the input.
 
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