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you mean they'll be selling ADA stuff in calgary in november? Or online through that canadian retailer? I wonder how much they'll jack up the prices haha... I was accidentally shopping on bigals online on their american site recently. I think we pay twice what they pay.... sigh. ADA tanks are what I show my friends when I try to describe aquascaping. I've never seen one in real life... yet... hahah. They're sooo stunning.

anybody have ideas? for water changes. where do people get theirs? i went to home depot and rona and they seem to only carry 5 gallon ones. I'm hoping for a simple white pail kind of thing, cheap in calgary thanks!

aww don't give up on that planted tank just yet haha. Kind of seriously though. I was once like you! Then I bought fluorite substrate, GOOD lights, and injected some CO2 and I can do no wrong... On the other hand, before I did that, and I have a 30g tank... I had a simple cichlid tank. A few rocks I got from the rivervalley piled nicely. And one Jack Dempsey. He became this irridescent green/blue color (think avatar). Lights on only rarely and it hardly grew algae etc. Very simple. Clark

places that cut residential glass (I think most speedy auto glasses) can cut you some I think it's 4mm glass, costs maybe 20 bucks if my foggy memory is right. I tried the plexiglass once, and it bends and gets annoying. if you just want it to overhang a bit they might even have some scrap type glass for cheaper. if you want it to fit inside the tank then measure very accurately the width...

Awww. I remember my red tailed shark from a few years ago. I thought he was a jerk for the longest time, he was always chasing the other fish. But he never hurt them, and I grew quite fond of him too. I could tell I needed to clean the tank when his red tail lost it's shine...

thanks for all the advice! yeah - I was wondering about the fert too. I was planning on doing flourish weekly (plus the flourite, plus some flourish tabs for bigger stuff). I have read about the EI but I'm looking for this to not take up too much of my time, unfortunately I don't have enough! In fact this might even be an aquarium I have to leave with nobody watching for a week or two at a time... (yeah I know that could get hilarious) where do you guys get plants? i've looked at a nursery out of bc (something aquatics?) but they seem sold out of everything. Pygmy chain swords especially, because I know that's what I want for sure. Big Al's in calgary has some ok looking plants, sometimes. Any other affordable mail order places? I think they have to be in canada given importing plants laws and such.

Hi everybody (first time caller, long time listener :0 In the last month or so I've gotten a big itch to turn my 25 gallon into a richly planted, heavily pearling, green utopia I've already got 2 of the coralife t5 regular output strips (72 watts so about 3/gallon). I know nobody likes them. But they were free. i'm going to do 100% black fluorite (gonna get rid of the gravel that's in there now, got the fluorite too) and i'm trying injected co2 for the first time ever - Money was an issue so I went with a milwaukee all in one regulator/solenoid/bubble counter etc with a ceramic diffuser and drop checker. I'm in calgary, am I right thinking I can rent a co2 bottle from recharge place near chinook? Or do I have to buy the bottle. Suggestions? I want 5lbs so it fits in my stand. Hmmm what else. right now the aquarium has a jack dempsey in it (he's gotta go obviously), some driftwood with java fern. I'm picturing a rich carpet of chain swords along the entire ground, a nice piece of driftwood, and some taller/more colorful stuff in one back corner to hide my filter etc. Any start up suggestions? How exactly should I start it all up? empty the tank, get the co2 to 30ppm then add fish/plants? Maybe 2 SAE, a small group of corydoras, and some nice schooling tetras? Hopefully in the next month or two I'll get it going. Thanks!