Good websites for plants...

[froggsong]

Ok, I hear alot of people say the best source for plants for our vives is online. Would anyone care to share the sites they use?

[Athen]

Black Jungle seems to have a great selection although i havnt bought any from them yet other than that i buy mine from LLL Reptiles but i buy mine from the store themselves since i live right next to their only locations but they do have a website

[froggsong]

Yeah, I have looked at their site (LLL Reptiles), and I need to see how much the shipping is, but alot of their stuff seems to have good prices. I have read that you should NOT buy animals from them though. They have a nice sized ficus for a very good price that I may buy if the shipping isn't too much and I can't find it cheaper elsewhere. I want a nice big plant in the CWD vive.

[Athen]

as far as buying animals and having them shipped i dont really know. but i however have access to both of ther actual sites and can go to the stores and in my opinion they are a great store their animals are all very good and their employees are very helpful and quite knowledgeable i have bought all my herps from them but then again i can go in and see them. and on top of it all in the San Diego area they are the number one recommended reptile store ANY of the other petstores here will tell you to go to them for herps the MANAGER at Petco told me not to buy anything from them and recommended me to go to LLL he even told me that is where he goes for all of his herps. i will be quite sad when i separate from the Navy and go back home next year because im not too sure if they have any reptile stores and im not keen on buying an animal off the internet

[Athen]

unless of course its a cheetah =) which BTW someone showed me a site where i can actually buy one =)

[froggsong]

lol @ the cheetah... Maybe the posts I read about them were old or something. I read on the BP forum (I think it was, but I could be wrong) that they pass WC herps off as CB and stuff like that. Of course, I have never ordered anything from them or been in their store, so I don't know. Sometimes all you have is what you've read. I thought we might be getting stationed in San Diego, but now I'm not sure... My hubby may be getting kicked out of the Navy. I wanted to meet you . ::cries:: Oh well. Back home to be broke and homeless, I guess.

[Athen]

awww =( if you do not mind me asking what might he be getting kicked out for? oh and to my knowledge they do not try to pass off WC for CB in my experience they will tell you if they are WC like my blue spiny lizard was WC and they told me plus unless someone is catching baby animals and selling them there i cant see many of their animals being WC because the vast majority of their animals are all very young.

[Evilwezal]

Brianstropicals.com seem to have a nice selection of plants for tropical Vivs. There a partner site of Blackjungle.com also.

[Pavel]

It depends on what types of plants you're planning on getting & what kind of herps you have. Keep in mind that many herps and amphs will try to clamber over plants and even dig them up.

With larger herps, you plant selection is actually quite limited in many respects. Plants strong enough to have a large herp climb all over it or sit on it without getting flattened or broken are generally big plants -- often too big to be taken care of in a viv. Small to tiny herps and amphs like pdfs and day geckos provide a much wider range of options.

Btw, can't remember where at the moment, but I do remember chatting with some folks who were quite unhappy w/ the quality of the plants they received from Black Jungle. I can't speak from personal experience, however, as I have never ordered from them.

For durable vine plants like Pothos or perhaps Hoyas, cheapest place to go is your local big box stores or perhaps farmers market. (I would recommend staying away from ivies as, IME, they seem to be extrememly prone to mites. The mites would be harmless to your critters, but can spread to any other houseplants you have.) Occasionally you'll find folks, such as myself, who sell off or trade plant divisions -- at which time the biggest expense winds up being the postage not the plant(s).

I think I've only purchased one of my critters from a pet store -- an that was a local "mom & pop" operation. All the others I've picked up at herp shows. MUCH cheaper than buying them online or at a store. Plus you can look them over (impossible on line) and talk to the breeder before buying them.

[froggsong]

The purpose of the thread is not to find myself a good online plant dealer, but to have a list of sites that people have had good results from available for everyone to look over. There have been a few questions about plant suppliers in the last few days, (albeit not in the plant section, lol) and I thought it would be a good thread to start, and if there was enough response, a possible sticky in the future (just because it would be better to have one list that sticks around that people can add to over time than lots of single posts in different threads that people will have to sift through).
I already know what kind of plants I need for my herps, I have had most of them for years. I just want everyone to post sites they have used, (or perused that they think deserve a mention) so people will have a one stop list to get started buying plants online. And keep in mind, some plants cannot be found in local stores.