Where and how to get variety of good plants

[andrephua]

few questions here:

1) Where can I find a variety of plants for my aquarium? Which aquariums have a good selection of them?
2) How do I select healthy plants? What do I look out for?
3) Where can I get jewel orchid? What do I have to do to habe them to survive on driftwood?

[Simon]

1) Where can I find a variety of plants for my aquarium? Which aquariums have a good selection of them?
A couple of places, C328 and polyart at clementi, Keong Seong at havelock road, NA and Colourful at thomson. The best place if you have transport is Teo plant farm at Lim Chu Kang, you should be able to get most of your plants there, except for some rare ones and those that they do not cultivate but rely on imports.

2) How do I select healthy plants? What do I look out for?
depending on the type of plants
1) rosette
- look at the leaves for algae, or dieases
- check the roots, it should be white not dark colored or black
- if you get them, make sure you get rid of any foreign bodies (eg. snails and eggs, any insect)

2) stemmed
- again look at the leaves, they should not be rotting away if it is submerse form
- roots if any, look for the same thing as in the rosette plant above

3) Where can I get jewel orchid? What do I have to do to habe them to survive on driftwood?
I hope you know they are not aquatic , nevertheless, there is a orchid farm near Qianhu at Sungei Tengah called Woon Leng, do a search for the location.
Haven't seen them growing on driftwood, other than directly in the soil, I have seen some trying to grow on coco panel.

hope I have answered your questions
Simon

[Shadow]

just want to add, you can also order it from most LFS that selling plant.

[enhanzed]

i get most of mine from sea view

[o2bubble]

Did anyone forgotten about FAR EAST at Kovan MRT? Can order from them any plants you want including those you see on Tropica website.

[torque6]

far east ? havent heard this LFS. do we just provide them the tropica plant no. ?

[mikeyeoh]

if you need to find all sorts of exotic mosses you can check out bioplast a.k.a cooling system engineering and look for mr tan

he has extensice range of planted tanks and do check out his thick moss in 4 to 5 feet tank

[mikeyeoh]

oops forgot to add contact for bioplast 62964916

his shop is at block 22 boonkeng road and he does co2 refill and chiller repair and servicing too

[samuelgoh]

midori at suntec! =)
search for the plant u want on line then order from midori