50 Live Coldwater Aquatic Aquarium Plants Best on Ebay

Aquatic Plant Collection 50 Coldwater Plants

These are probably the best aquatic plants for sale on Ebay. Don't take our word for it, see our feedback and our guestbook for what customers have said about our plants.

For this collection we have only chosen species of aquatic plants which are quick growing, hardy, and undemanding, you won't find an easier to grow collection anywhere. If you after more specific please see our other listings.

What you see in our photographs is what your collection should look like, you won't get something unrecognisable. You can turn this collection into a thriving and beautiful planted tank, but we can't do that automatically for you, you still have to do the hard part, our Aquatic Plant Growing Guides might help here, so please read them - and vote!

This is an ideal collection for anyone starting out growing plants, or for anyone who wants to fill a tank at a reasonable price. Honestly as far as many aquatic plants are concerned there isn't much between 'coldwater' (e.g. room temperature) and 'tropical' (e.g. room temperature +2-4oC), these plants would survive well at any temperature from 16-26oC. But, these are specifically plants that often thrive in Goldfish tanks - carp are selective plant eaters, and big ones (e.g. Koi) can destroy most plants given a desire to, so we can't perform miracles here - if you do want REALLY tough plants I'd recommend Giant Vallis and Crinums, we do sell these separately and also in this collection. There are enough plants here to easily fill a 24", or 36" tank.

The exact contents of your order may vary as aquatic plants vary in quality and supply, and many are seasonal, but we guarantee you will get a varied and beautiful collection with many traditional favourites and others less well known.

We order our plants direct from nurseries in the Far East as they are of the best quality and arrive extremely fresh. Our prices are low because we buy plants in direct (not via some middleman) and because we don't place a huge mark up on them. Our prices are not cheap because we cut corners - please check out our longterm feedback to confirm this.

IMPORTANT PLEASE READ:

• All of your plants will be hand picked for quality. We store them in well lit tanks and never hold them for more than a few days before posting them. The total time it takes the plants to get from a nursery in the tropics to you is usually considerably less than a week!

• You will receive 50(+) plants in a combination of individual crown plants, cuttings, etc... (some with roots, some without).

• None of your plants will be bunched or leaded, you can't grow plants in leaded bunches - if they needed lead (or ceramic) weights they would have evolved them by now. Our guides can advise on how to get your plants established in your aquarium and growing naturally.

• All of your plants will usually be either: a. crown plants or b. cuttings of stem plants, occassionally we may send bulbs or rhizome plants too. Most require planting in the substrate as explained in our guides and elsewhere, all will quickly grow if provided with the right conditions (please see our guides for more info.).

• All of your plants will be true aquatics. In other words plants which can be grown easily underwater in a standard fishtank, all that is required is that you provide for their basic needs: lighting, substrate, fertilisation etc...
  

• You will not get any plants which are not true aquatics, e.g. Dracena, 'Borneo Sword', 'Umbrella Plant', 'Fountain Plant' etc... These non-aquatic plants will not grow emersed and will eventually rot and pollute your tank.
  


• We can not ship live plants to Europe or the rest of the World, please do not bid if you live outside the UK.


• We do not ship plant orders recieved after noon on Weds until the following Mon or Tues, because of potential delays in delivery over the weekend, if you would like to recieve your plants by the weekend please order before noon on the proceeding Weds. All plant orders are sent first class and usually arrive within 24-72 hours of posting.

• The plants are sent bagged to keep them moist and carefully packed in a cardboard box to prevent them getting crushed. They should be Okay packaged this way for several days and won't suffer from being chilled (so long as they are not frozen), but obviously the sooner they are in your tank the better. This collection will come in one box which is small enough to fit through most post boxes (although there are so many different sizes and shapes of post box here in the UK we aren't guaranteeing anything!).

• When you first get your plants please soak them in a bucket of tapwater and/or give them a very good rinse under the tap. This will revitalise them and wash off any anti-snail treatments used on them. This is particularly important if you keep live snails or shrimps and other crustaceans, which are extremely sensitive to these chemicals. Given a good rinse under the tap and left to soak in a bucket for 24 hours all such chemicals will be washed off.
  

As stated above the individual species included will vary, but you will never recieve less than 8 different species to allow for a beautiful and varied display.

Species typically included are:

• Bacopa monniera Bacopa 
• Ceratophyllum demersum Hornwort
• Ceratophyllum demersum var. 'Mexico'
• Crinum thainum Onion Plant 
• Cryptocoyne balanasae Bubble Jade
• Echinodorus amazonicus Ruffled Sword Plant
• Echinodorus bleheri Amazon Sword Plant
• Hygrophila difformis Water Wisteria
• Egeria densa Elodea aka Pondweed
• Egeria najas Ditchweed
• Sagittaria platyphylla
  
• Sagittaria subulata
• Shinnersia rivularis Mexican Oak Leaf Plant
• Vallisneria spiralis Common (Straight) Vallis
• Vallisneria americana var. americana Giant Vallis  
• Vallisneria americana var. natans
• Vallisneria rubra sp. 'Serpanta' 
• And MANY more

Yes it is different to the collections other traders are selling here on eBay, we don't get our plants from the same source and we have deliberately chosen ours, they are not just the cheapest bunches sold by Uk wholesalers in bulk.

Links to our plant growing guides:

http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Growing-Aquatic-Plants-in-the-Aquarium-pt-1_W0QQugidZ10000000002332654

http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/Growing-Aquatic-Plants-in-the-Aquarium-pt-2_W0QQugidZ10000000002357748

Please see our shop and other listings for further plants and aquatic items.

If you are seriously interested in any aquatic plants not currently listed by us please get in touch, we can import over 400 species of aquatic plants, loose and/or potted including many rare and hard to get hold of varieties so please contact us.