Prince
The ONE who is The ONE
I am looking for local store with a good plant selection. Down here in Southern Maryland we only have Petco and Petsmart which don't have much.
Looking for a local store with a good plant selection.
Lively
Members
Rick's in Frederick has a nice plant selection.
DiscusnAfricans
Past President
Congressional in Rockville has a decent selection, but not the cheapest. With Scales gone, Rick's might be your best bet as Lively said. It's a hike from southern MD, but their stuff is usually healthy.
DiscusnAfricans
Past President
Tropical Fish World in Gaithersburg has a good selection as well.
dogofwar
CCA Members
maddog10
Members
GWAPA is the best source for plants in the area. They have more quality plants at a meeting than most stores stock.
Lively
Members
Our own meetings aren't too shabby in that dept, either.
DonkeyFish
Members
Way to pull your weight, Mike, and remember your "other" friends 
GWAPA meetings are NUTS with plants a lot of times you won't find in stores, for ridiculous prices (it's an auction, a lot of times we're practically GIVING things away) and usually someone will bring something that's along the lines of "you'll be the third person in the US to have this plant".
Plus, we're all nice folk and contrary to popular belief, we *do* keep fish too. We're not THAT geeky! LOL
GWAPA meetings are NUTS with plants a lot of times you won't find in stores, for ridiculous prices (it's an auction, a lot of times we're practically GIVING things away) and usually someone will bring something that's along the lines of "you'll be the third person in the US to have this plant".
Plus, we're all nice folk
and contrary to popular belief, we *do* keep fish too. We're not THAT geeky! LOL
iamzrad
Members
Do GWAPA meetings require membership?
I registered but I can only view like like 5% of the forum...
I registered but I can only view like like 5% of the forum...
ltrepeter2000
Members
Meetings do not require membership but it is encouraged, and just like CCA, you can make your membership up in one auction at the reduced prices you end up paying on plants compared to other options.
Forum rights are really restricted for non members, you can see a few of the forums, not post in any IIRC.
You don't need to join to check us out.
As Jen mentioned, we do keep fish too - and some neat little other things y'all would probably actually find interesting. Last Auction had a bag of 8 Cambarellus Shufeldtii, for instance, a really neat dwarf crayfish.
As far as plant selection goes, frankly, no store even comes close. It isn't meant to be an insult - there are literally hundreds of species of plants not commercially available, and several dedicated planted tank keepers with horrid cases of Collectoritis within our club.
Scales probably came the closest as a store, mainly because a) Andrew knew plants and had an employee who did really well keeping them stocked, and b) he was and is a friend to GWAPA and we supplied him a bunch of plants too. If you bought Willow Hygro, E. Vesuvius, Crypt Spiralis, Crypt Willisii, and several others from him, odds are it came from one of our tanks.
Diogenes
Members
I used to live in NoVA and I went by this LFS yesterday and they had completely stocked all the livebearer tanks with tons of plants. They have nice fish too if your looking for juvies.
http://pristineaquariums.com/new/about.html
http://pristineaquariums.com/new/about.html
