I need to know where to get the following:
 

Can someone point me in the right direction for the following please;

- refilling CO2 canisters
- a good drygoods selection
- Red Sea Coral Pro Salt
- Good selection of PVC fittings

Thank you!

Best place for PVC is Western Pump

Calgary
11346 - 42 Street S.E.
Calgary, AB T2C 5C4
Fax: (403)243-7218
Ph: (403)287-0256
Ph: (800)665-7867

I stopped by Western pump this morning to pick up some plumbing, excellent selection (and prices) & very helpful!

I got my CO2 refills at Praxair in the deep south.

I use the "Recharge Centre" for CO2 refills. I've also used Sprouse Fire&Safety and B.O.C. and Medigas in the past.

For local drygoods ('cuz I mail-order a fair amount too), I generally go to Elite and Gold. Elite and Wai's are more or less one and the same, so if Elite doesn't have something but Wai's does, I just ask him to grab it for me and come back in a couple of days.

I also get some stuff from Ocean Aquarium from time to time.

I find with my location being so far south, it's hard for me to get to the other stores on a regular basis. Elite and Gold win out for me based on location.. The other stores might have decent stuff too but I just don't get out there much. :(

I don't use Red Sea salt so I don't know that one. Elite has some stuff, Gold has some stuff.. the largest selection I've seen recently is Red Coral Aquarium up in the NW, they had at least 6 different kinds of salt when I was there a couple weeks ago. I ended up picking up a bucket of Aquamedic salt, I'll give it a try. Hopefully I don't end up hooked on it because that's a longggggggg drive for salt for me :lol:

PVC fittings - I think you'll find that most stores have about 95% of whatever you need at any particular moment, so you always have to go to "one more store" to get that last widget. Between Home Depot, Rona, Western Pump, and Plumbateria, I generally find whatever I'm looking for. Plumbateria and Western Pump will carry stuff in more sizes (eg., 1/4" pipe if you need- perfect for airline attachments to reactors and so on). Rona's gotten really better on their selection in the last year or two - they have things like unions now (used to be to find a union the only place to go was Western Pump).

I have not really found a good local source for good true-union fittings. Ie., a ball valve that has a union on both sides. Western pump will at least have the half-union fittings (union on one side). I have not yet found anywhere that has PVC gate valves. I have a vague memory of Kari telling me of a place up in the N.E. called "Canadian Plastics" or "Western Canadian Plastics" and that they had things like bulkheads and true union fittings but I haven't yet found this place... maybe someone else can pipe in if they know the place I'm trying to mention here .. :redface:

Tony, I bet you are thinking of :

Western International Plastics (Alta) Ltd
1450 30 Avenue NE
Calgary, AB T2E 8P5
(403) 291-1579

I used to do business with them years ago back when I worked for Crane Supply. Actually we used to sell Ipex true union ball valves, I should see if anyone I know still works there??

Cool, thanks!

Thank you everyone.

I hit up a couple of stores today to try and get some dry goods, and while I had a fantastic experience at one, the other wouldn't talk to me. I suspect its because I am girl. :( I haven't even been here for a week and I've already started to develop favorites!

Albert at Gold's has a very good selection of fittings.

Who wouldn't talk to you? PM me if you want? That's just not cool.