Ok, so I go and buy 4 umbrella plants (Spathiphyllum wallisii) from Petsmart and take them home for my new aquarium. It has been about two weeks and then they start rotting, so I go and do some research online on the plant. I find out that this plant isn't even meant for aquariums, and its just being sold in plastic tubes with the roots in clear gel thats meant to be fish safe, and "snail free" on the label! I'm pretty mad, but I guess it taught me to research about the plant before you buy it...:roll:
Now I have to go and buy more plants for my aquarium....$10 down the drain...:sob:
Yeah, you gotta be careful with the tube plants. As you now know, some of them aren't actually aquatic.
However, I got two anubias from the same brand and system that are doing great, and I just got a "tropica fern" (which I understand is actually a Java Fern).
Yeah, those tube-plants are a cruel joke to people who are new to keeping live plants. Apparently Petsmart has gotten a ton of complaints about them. It's probably a safe bet that many their employees don't know the difference either, unless of course that employee is self educated on the topic.
Yup. AT my local petco about half of the "aquarium" plants are actually terrestrial. Not only in the tubes but in the actual tanks. It really is necessary to research plants and fish before buying from any of the big chain stores. And for the record, im pretty sure any plant with Spathiphyllum in its latin name is terrestrial. So are any of those stripey plants. Aquatic plants dont usually have bright stripes on their leaves.
My aunt has one of those and she keeps it in her living room in DIRT lol. Im sorry about your plant and money but yeah research before you do anything like that. I just bought a Ghost shrimp today and he/she looks so adorable in my betta fry tank and he/she is cleaning like crazy! i gotta research too on them because i know nothing about them.
Yeah, well I'll be more careful when I get new ones!
I also got an anubia from the same brand that day, but that one is doing fine. Are the java ferns good live plants for an aquarium?
Yea PetsMart sux and I'm just about learning that, I got two defective heaters there, one I returned one I kept because I feel like and idiot returning another defective heater.
- I just bought three black mystery snail's, my bigger one died not even two day's in, so I tossed it. And I feel like tossing the other two dead or alive cause all my betta's got hurt by picking at them, the worst off is Jet then there's my 5 month old baby, Tex.
When I realised Tex had mising scales, I got really mad at those snails. I'm very protective of what's mine
wisteria grows tall. Needs medium lighting - about 2+ watts per gallon of daylight spectrum flourescent light. I got 5 or 6 stems of it from the little plactic tube it came in.
It grows tall and fast. If it reaches the top of the tank, it'll grow across the top of the water, kinda like a floating plant. It's a stem plant, so it stays pretty thin. I have low-moderate lighting and medium hard water and it has grown like crazy.
Wow. I'm might get wysteria, but I know I'm getting java ferns. I've been doing online research the past ten minutes on java ferns so I don't get ripped off again. Do you have any advice about what to rubber band it to so the roots can attach themselves.
Good idea, I'll do that. And I considered getting wysteria, and I decided that would be a nice plant to get. I'm going to my LPS this Friday to get the plants!
wow, ill be careful when i buy live plants from petsmart!
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