Has anyone had any experience of ordering from Greenline in the UK? Specifically, did the plants arrive in any kind of decent condition? Delivery can take 7 days, I believe.

I'm going to need a large amount of fast-growing stem plants to cycle a new tank in a hurry and Greenline would seem to be the cheapest way to do this @ 30 quid for a tank load of plants.
I've used JavaOnline before but the green mush I recieved wouldn't pass as value for money no matter how cheap they were....

Thanks,
Andy

I used Greenline recently. Ordered on a Monday. Plants were posted on the Tuesday. Arrived in Dublin on Thursday around lunch time. They were all in good condition. I had no complaints with mine and they even threw in a few small extras with mine.

You probably know this already, but adding a large amount of fast growing stem plants won't speed up the cycle. If you are getting them to use up ammonia then that will happen, which is probably what you are aiming for, but that causes the cycle to happen more slowly as there is less ammonia for the bacteria to use.

I've never used Greenline, i've always found Java to be very quick and the plants in great shape. Always got what I ordered and never any substitutes.

Maybe you caught them on a bad day.

No, I'm in no rush to speed up the cycle as such. I'm more interested in algae prevention from the start.
I'll have plenty of ammonia from the ADA Aquasoil II so the bacteria will be well fed.

Mass planting from the start does help to cycle to substrate though so that will help. I think I'll order one of the soft water collections from green line and see how they work out.
This new tank is only a step on the way to my 5x2x2 (feet) room divider so I'll need a lot of plants soon. I may as well start growing them now!

@Peter OB: I'm prepared to give java the benefit of the doubt as most people seem happy with them. Not one of the plants I ordered from them survived more than a week. It was early in my plant-grwing career so I suspect that was a contributing factor somehow!

i used them last feb. or so i missed the tues.deadline so i had to wait till the following week .plants arrived in great condition individually bagged and tagged .

Andy not meaning to stray from the main topic but it is beneficial to put some mulm from a filter on the base of the tank before the ADA substrate. I made the mistake of not doing this on my last tank and i had to do a lot more water changes at the start to keep the algae away. Also use an established filter. I use carbon to remove the tanning's from the ADA substrate and it will also remove traces of Ammonia. Ammonia = algae.

Darren

Stray away. All advice is welcome as I've never used the ADA stuff before.... So.... How's this for a plan?
I have an established tank here running two decent filters. A fluval 105 and an AquaEl of some kind. I have a Eheim 2026 on order.
I'll set-up the new tank using the Fluval or the AquaEL (assuming I can transport one cross-country without killing it).
I put the 2026 on my existing tank for a couple of weeks until I have to move my existing tank too. This way I'll end up with 2 seeded and matured filters to use on the new tank. The existing tank won't be used for a while.

Sounds like a plan.
You wont be sorry you went for the aquasoil. The mulm under this will start off the biological activities in the substrate.
Plenty of water changes starting off will help keep the algae away.

How much have people paid in postage with Greenline? People say good things about them although I have never used them.

I ordered stuff from Java before and it was a disaster, I waited nearly a month for the plants to arrive, and it took several irate emails, they were in good condition when they did arrive though, it seems that my order got caught up in a computer glitch somewhere. When they were sent eventually I got them within a few days.

Howya Peter, it's impossible to work out postage from the greenline site, as far as I can see. I'm going to take a chance on them in a week or so, whatever the postage works out at it'll be cheaper than Tropica from anywhere local.

If it suits you to order at the sam etime, let me know and I can throw yours on with my order?