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You can get rid of a large number of snails by putting in greens like lettuce - and then removing it with a lot of snails on it (zuc also work well). However ultimately the key to getting rid of snails is to not over feed; the more extra food in the aquarium the more food. In any event every vendor i mentioned the plants came with snail the ONE exception is tissue culture. The disadvantage of tissue cultures is the plants start small and need a more initial care; however i'm fairly happy with aquariumfactoryplant selection of tissue culture. Having said that any major vendor tissue should be equally free of pests; of course buying 5 tissue and one non-tissue will put you back where you are and if your aquarium is already infected with snails it doesn't matter much what you do (i.e, buying plants with or without snails is unlikely to have a huge impact on your snail population).
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I buy plants from ChiChi's Planted Dreams- Marcos sells nice, decent-quality plants for a good price; they do have snails, sometimes, but he's generally pretty good with pest control. Posts some of the oddest 'memes' on his Facebook page, though...
I also buy from Brandon at I Wet My Plants- not the cheapest, but I don't think any of his plants have snails. I'm eligible for a discount from him, though, because of the fish club I'm in, so I'm biased, I guess.
 
I'll never use chichi planted dreams again - i used them twice and both times it was a mess. the first time i waited nearly 4 months for the plants to ship and when they did ship they were the wrong species. I placed the order with them because i wanted very specific species of Echinodorus they listed as having in stock. When they did ship the plants they were decent but not the stuff i ordered he 'made up' by adding a few extra but i didn't want them so extras didn't help. He should have given me the option to get a refund. The 2nd order was worse. I ordered one expensive plant and one cheap plant since i was paying for shipping. He shipped the cheap plant which was just a filler for the order but not the expensive plant. It took two weeks to get a refund (he did eventually refund); he offered to send me 2 of the expensive plants at some unknown later date but given my experience the first time i wasn't waiting another 4 months to get the wrong plant. That order really made me mad since i only placed it and paid for shipping (which was not refunded) for that expensive plant. I'm not calling Marcos a crook and i can understand he seemed like a nice guy (he wouldn't do this by email but had me called him); but this is not how you run a business. Either send what i order or give me the option for subsitute or refund don't send me the wrong plants and stop listing these exotic plants you don't have in stock.
 
I'll never use chichi planted dreams again - i used them twice and both times it was a mess. the first time i waited nearly 4 months for the plants to ship and when they did ship they were the wrong species. I placed the order with them because i wanted very specific species of Echinodorus they listed as having in stock. When they did ship the plants they were decent but not the stuff i ordered he 'made up' by adding a few extra but i didn't want them so extras didn't help. He should have given me the option to get a refund. The 2nd order was worse. I ordered one expensive plant and one cheap plant since i was paying for shipping. He shipped the cheap plant which was just a filler for the order but not the expensive plant. It took two weeks to get a refund (he did eventually refund); he offered to send me 2 of the expensive plants at some unknown later date but given my experience the first time i wasn't waiting another 4 months to get the wrong plant. That order really made me mad since i only placed it and paid for shipping (which was not refunded) for that expensive plant. I'm not calling Marcos a crook and i can understand he seemed like a nice guy (he wouldn't do this by email but had me called him); but this is not how you run a business. Either send what i order or give me the option for subsitute or refund don't send me the wrong plants and stop listing these exotic plants you don't have in stock.
Damn, sorry to hear that. Definitely seems irresponsible of him to not issue a refund; two sides to every coin, I guess... I've admittedly only bought stuff from him through DMs on Band or Facebook, not his site, which is probably why I had a better experience. He did mention site inventory not being up-to-date, but I didn't know it was that bad.
 
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