Aquacultured plants?

[Teremei]

Are any of you concerned about parasites or diseases if you buy plants from places that harvest them instead of aquaculture them? For example a website that harvests plants as opposed to a lab that grows them from the same strand from years ago? (basically aquacultered plants)

I have to decide whether to spend more money and order from a place like seawaterexpress and seacrop as opposed to a place like floridapets. Seawaterexpress has aquacultured plants but they don't carry graciliaria like florida pets has. Help needed!!

Have any of you quarantined plants if you get them from places that harvest them?

 

[chuck2]

Inand Aquatics has as good a selection as anyone. . . and it's all aquacultured. Morgan Lidster runs the operation in Indiana. . . if you check their product list, you'll find about 20 kinds of macro listed. . . some otherwise hard to find.

 

[Teremei]

Nice place, anywhere else? I am looking for one place to buy prolifera, and one more thing for my main tank.

Seawaterexpress is aquacultered also and has prolifera and red kelp. Florida pets has prolifera, graciliaria, and himeleda, but is not aquacultured. So far I am leaning toward seawaterexpress if my research on red kelp comes up good, or florida pets.

Are there any other places, and does anyone have any experiences or advice to buy from places that are not aquaclutured? I want to get good macro but also want to make the right choice of where to buy.

 

[Teremei]

I called inland today and they got the prolifera I need, they dont' have graciliaria or whatever it's called in red, but they have green. Can anybody reccomend that stuff?

He reccomended something called burning bush that is red that he said is very attractive (heymenia) but I couldn't pull up anything on it when doing a search.

 

[bluenassarius]

i have some of that red gracilaria. if you want to trade something for it i'm more than willing to ship you some in trade.

 

[Samala]

I didnt worry about quarantining plants for disease or anything. Some people will freshwater dip to try to get rid of any algae spores but this probably destroys the infauna community on the 'leaves'. Some macro's may not tolerate a FW dip... havent tried it extensively. I wouldn't worry about it, just look out for hitchhikers on the macro that look suspicious.

>Sarah

 

[Teremei]

I see thanks. I got some prolifera from a LFS so I won't have to order it from the net. Looks pretty good. Has sand or something on some of the leaves but otherwise fine.