Aquarium stores in Calgary?

Skimmer Juice · #1 10-08-2019, 03:47 PM

Golds has a nice assortment of corals when I was in , I believe Dennis is growing out his own stuff now had a bunch of Hydras hooked up . Seen lots of zoas , some nice chalice corals . And his fish are always top notch , he had pearly Jawfish for $20 pretty cheap .
Wais is the best place by far in the city atm he gets all the new equipment / dry goods and a crazy amount of corals and you can find weird stuff there sometimes like bongo shrimp , dragon eels . Dont really do oceans anymore as he doesnt have the salt I need or any of the addatives and fish selection / corals are pretty basic IMO and Im only looking for cool rare things at this point.
Sucks Concepts Closed again . Dont buy livestock from pisces at all just get food and salt from them .
So pretty much Gold's and Wai's are my only stores for livestock

Layottb · #2 10-08-2019, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Skimmer Juice

Golds has a nice assortment of corals when I was in , I believe Dennis is growing out his own stuff now had a bunch of Hydras hooked up . Seen lots of zoas , some nice chalice corals . And his fish are always top notch , he had pearly Jawfish for $20 pretty cheap .
Wais is the best place by far in the city atm he gets all the new equipment / dry goods and a crazy amount of corals and you can find weird stuff there sometimes like bongo shrimp , dragon eels . Dont really do oceans anymore as he doesnt have the salt I need or any of the addatives and fish selection / corals are pretty basic IMO and Im only looking for cool rare things at this point.
Sucks Concepts Closed again . Dont buy livestock from pisces at all just get food and salt from them .
So pretty much Gold's and Wai's are my only stores for livestock

Thank-you for the advice! I take it you've had bad luck with Livestock from Pisces? Unhealthy fish, or high prices?? Golds and Wai's for Livestock, eh? That's good to know, thank-you!

Skimmer Juice · #3 10-08-2019, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Layottb

Thank-you for the advice! I take it you've had bad luck with Livestock from Pisces? Unhealthy fish, or high prices?? Golds and Wai's for Livestock, eh? That's good to know, thank-you!

More to due to poor selection coral wise , and fish I dont risk getting from there unless I have a qt running , as all those tanks are connected so if 1 fish has sickness then its through most of the tanks . Price is never my reason I dont mind paying for a fish thats taken better care of at the lfs , thats why I like golds for fish he treats fish when sick and wont sell if you are not fit or the fish is not %100 .

Layottb · #4 10-09-2019, 01:24 AM

Thank-you for the insight! It's much appreciated!

hfp75 · #5 02-19-2020, 05:20 AM

Riverfront is technically gone but when he was shut down he went and worked at Concepts for a while. When Concepts stopped carrying livestock the Riverfront guy left and started a new store downtown somewhere. Call concepts and ask the name / location. I went and saw his store and its small and I was taken back by the prices - not cheap.

Skimmer Juice · #6 02-19-2020, 08:07 PM

Its called Fin Gallery . Went to check it out , seen who was running it and will never be back .

Layottb · #7 04-06-2020, 02:13 AM

Aaaahhhhh, so the Riverfront guy has the new Fin Gallery?

That's good to know.

Can I ask..what ended up happening to Big Al's, anyway? Was it just poorly run, or did they get a really bad rep? I'll guess high prices, and a bad reputation??

Anyway, thanks for the info.

Stay safe, everyone!