petsmart and petco plants

[zachery120]

are the plants good or not.
what the best plants for a 55 gallon '4' "13" "18"? i have never had plants before.
if you have a 55 planted tank plz post pics.thx

 

[Sab_Fan]

live plants from Petsmart are ok, stick to the easy ones, like java fern, anubias, maybe amazon swords . . . if you buy their live plants out of the water tanks, make sure to quarantine them for a few days, in caes there are any parasites (they often keep fish in their plant tanks)

I don't ever buy those pre-packaged plants, which is all I ever see at Petco . . .

 

[sbuse]

i have gotten a few swards from them and they are doing great...

 

[Heathd]

My petco has a dedicated plant tank, but the last few times I have managed to pick up some unwanted snails as well. I would give them a mild bleach dip and then rinse them well before putting them in the tank....unless you like snails.

 

[blinkmaster]

Got most plants from petsmart and petco. My clownloach love them free snails.

 

[pjsmetana]

I got all my plants from Petco. I have 3 Banana, 2 Moss Ball, 1 Micro Sword, 1 Undulata, 2 Ruby Sword, 2 Red Wendtii, 2 Anacharis, and 1 Java Fern. Its all in a 26g. I'd take a pic for ya, but Its hard to see due to a free floating alge bloom that just started

 

[zachery120]

ok cool got 2 plants 18 to 20 inches im going to post pics soon but i have my light off i got 3 new firemouth from petco

 

[Foster]

I don't reccomend the Tri-pack pot whatever they call it from petco. All 3 of those I have had only 1 of the plants live and it is of course, the ugliest of the bunch.

Odd enough my best plants have came from walmart. I'm guessing not as many people shop there for them because there always bursting out of the pots. They do run me about $1 more but the extra size is worth it since my fish seem to bulldoze anything smaller than them. However... I have to shiver when I think of whats in the tanks with the plants.

 

[zachery120]

i got all three for $10.00 i did not see the third one tell late yesterday plz id

 

[uncwnells]

just buy the healthiest looking ones and you should be good to go