Anyone ever order from Arizona Aquatic Gardeners

[Larry Grenier]

I'm redoing my tank and afterwards, plan on adding a few SAE's, Ottos, Florida Flags, Amano shrimp, Cherry Red shrimp and maybe a few plants (depending on how much I tear-out). They seem to have most of what I want. There folks reputable? Good idea, buying from them?

[gnatster]

Never ordered from them myself, have read a lot very mixed reviews. Livestock seems to be their sore point.

All of what you are looking for is avalable at AC in Baltimore usually. This weekend is a 20% off sale and prices for shrimp are lower at AC. I'd imagine quite a few of us will be there on Sat after the Field Trip.

[RTRJR]

I've ordered banana plants (terrestrial, not aquatic) from them with good results. I have not ordered aquatics or fish/inverts.

[Cory]

I liked the plants that I have ordered from them, no livestock though.

[inexorable]

Hi. I have ordered a TON of stuff from AAG. They're great! I have ordered amano shrimp, SAE's, all kinds of plants, fertilizers, and my high-presure CO2 system. Definitely one of my favorite mail order vendors. All fish and shrimp arrived alive and well. Only problem I've had is some plants suffer from the shipping from Arizona to NYC, especially rotala macrandra, which is well known to not ship well. In general, most plants tend to degrade a small amount when shipped from anywhere. I prefer buying plants in person. Mail order is the way to go to get uncommon and difficult to get species. I enjoyed doing business with AAG and the owner is pretty kewl if you call him up on the phone. Buy with confidence.

As a side note, avoid buying ugly in-tank CO2 reactors, which my Bioplast system came with. I replaced it with a in-line reactor that has bio balls in it. I mounted it under my cabinet stand and it disolves the CO2 better than the ugly in-tank one. It hooks up between the outlet of one of my Fluval 404's and the filter exhaust in the tank. A great by-product of the in-line reactor with bio balls is that bacteria grow in there on the bio balls and it boosts your biological filter capacity.

Dave

[anatolek]

I have ordered all my plants and fish from them and have NO complaints. Some DOA in the fish department (to be expected) and the plants are BEAUTIFUL! Especially the Madagascar Lace it is beautiful and two weeks later I have 6 new leaves on each that I ordered.